Trump inauguration a year later: ‘America First’ interpretation tests fragile coalition

Trump inauguration a year later: ‘America First’ interpretation tests fragile coalition


One year ago today, during his inaugural address, President Donald Trump promised to put “America First” every day as he ushered in the “golden age” of the United States.

Fast forward to today, and it’s been Trump’s interpretation of “America First” that has, at times, perplexed and tested his base. The most obvious example of discontent was former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who retired from Congress this month after a spectacular fallout with Trump over, among other things, his hawkish foreign policy.

Like Greene, former Texas Republican Party Chairman Tom Pauken was “cautiously optimistic” about Trump’s second administration, but told the Washington Examiner he has become “very disappointed” in it because of the president’s interventionist foreign policy and military adventurism.

“He ran on a policy

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