As President Trump’s disastrous engagement at NATO continues, a chorus of voices has argued that Trump is merely fulfilling his campaign promises — he’s doing exactly what he said he would do. But if we are going to repeat this idea, it needs to be taken seriously. Trump didn’t merely claim he’d shake up the terms of our engagement with the rest of the world. He also said this would make America great — he’d get America “winning” again. And that second half of the great promise at the core of Trumpism — the much more important one — is getting unmasked as a massive lie.
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Greg Sargent: Trump’s latest lie at NATO blows up his idea of ‘winning’
France's President Emmanuel Macron (L) arrives with to US President Donald Trump (R) for the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) summit, at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, on July 11.
