“My foreign policy will always put the interests of the American people and American security above all else… That will be the foundation of every single decision that I will make. America First will be the major and overriding theme of my administration.”

— Donald J. Trump

2010s, 2016, April, Foreign Policy Speech (27 April 2016)

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