Trump praised Putin for bashing term ‘American exceptionalism’
That was the phrase that pays for conservatives who spent years bashing President Obama for not saying those words even though has been the only sitting president to say them. But Donald Trump praised Vladimir Putin for bashing Obama for using the term.
Speaking on Piers Morgan Tonight in September 2013, Trump said Putin “really put it” to President Obama over the phrase.
“You think of the term as being fine, but all of sudden you say, what if you’re in Germany or Japan or any one of 100 different countries? You’re not going to like that term,” said Trump. “It’s very insulting and Putin really put it to him about that.”
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Trump has found himself under attack from both Democrats and Republicans for praising Putin, especially after Russia’s suspected involvement in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s servers. Last week, Trump asked Russia to release Hillary Clinton’s emails, a comment he later claimed was sarcastic. On Sunday, Trump said Russia was not already in Ukraine despite the 2014 seizure of Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine. He also attempted to explain past comments about having a relationship with Putin.
Trump defended Putin’s criticism of the term “American exceptionalism” on Fox News.
“When he criticizes the president for using the term ‘American exceptionalism,’ if you’re in Russia, you don’t want to hear that America is exceptional,” Trump said onOn the Record. “And if you’re in many other countries, whether it’s Germany or other places, you don’t want to hear about American exceptionalism because you think you’re exceptional. So I can see that being very insulting to the world.”
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