Fareed Zakaria Slams Trump Foreign Policy Speech: ‘Rambling,’ ‘Truly Bizarre’

CNN host Fareed Zakaria was very critical of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump‘s foreign policy speech Wednesday, saying he found it incomprehensible, vague, and “truly bizarre” at times.

Zakaria said Trump’s speech was best when he was talking about his familiar standbys like trade, but fell apart when he talked about other issues. “It was sort of rambling to the point of being incoherent. I mean, he contradicted himself several times,” he said.

He proceeded to list off the many contradictions in Trump’s speech:

He said we’re going to get out of nation-building, but we’re going to create stability. Well, how do you do that? You get out of nation building in Afghanistan, you get more instability. You got out of nation-building in Iraq, you got more instability. He said the allies can rely on us but we will be completely unpredictable. He said we will spend what it takes to rebuild the military, but we’re going to pay down the debt. We’re going to spread Western civilization, but we’re not going to spread democracy.

“He ended with a truly bizarre statement about the greatest problem in the world is that we have too many weapons,” Zakaria noted. “Once again, a strange place where you might find he and Bernie Sanders are one.”

“So I don’t know that it’s going to convince anyone. Certainly it didn’t strike me as a careful analytic laying out of a Trump foreign policy,” he concluded.

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