Trump Vows to Spearhead ‘America-First’ Foreign Policy If Elected

A day after sweeping primaries across the Northeast on his march to the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump sought to boost his commander-in-chief credentials with a speech promising to dramatically upend U.S. foreign policy.

“‘America first’ will be the major and overriding theme of my administration,” Trump said Wednesday in Washington, reaching back to a World War II-era isolationist slogan. As president, he pledged, he’ll “develop a new foreign policy purpose for our country, one that replaces randomness with purpose, ideology with strategy, and chaos with peace. It's time to shake the rust off America's foreign policy.”