Trump’s First Picks Are War Hawks

Dan Friedman, Mother Jones
Tue, 11/12/2024 - 4:23pm

A few weeks ago, Vice President-elect JD Vance dubbed Donald Trump “the candidate of peace” during a blitz of Sunday morning show appearances. Vance was talking about a guy who during his last term reportedly expressed interest in firing missiles into Mexico, and mused about nuking both North Korea and hurricanes. And, less than a week after Trump’s election victory, the notion of the president-elect as anti-war, a common theme for Vance, has been badly undermined by Trump’s selection of a series of national security hawks—people who advocate using military force to solve international problems—for key administration jobs. On the campaign trail, Trump found some success in positioning himself in an anti-war lane.

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