Unbearable confusion: Trump doesn’t understand his own foreign policy

Donald Trump met with The Washington Post’s editorial board to discuss foreign policy, but it showed that Trump has little idea what he’s talking about.

The bright spot in Trump’s announcement of his foreign policy team was his turn away from neo-conservatism and foreign interventionism.

“I do think it’s a different world today, and I don’t think we should be nation-building anymore,” Trump said. “I think it’s proven not to work, and we have a different country than we did then.”

Those are echoes of a foreign policy closer to Ron Paul than George W. Bush, and it’s a reflection of the American weariness of perpetual war since 2001.

The advisers he named, however, don’t align with such a libertarian non-interventionist view.