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Donald Trump: “We didn't have the Afghanistan withdrawal, the worst…”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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President Trump Hosts First Cabinet Meeting, Feb. 26, 2025.

Published | Video Starts at 35:49

But we're going to have a good relationship with China and Russia and Ukraine and the Middle East. We're doing things that. Look, when I left, we had no wars. We had defeated ISIS totally. We had no inflation. We didn't have the Afghanistan withdrawal, the worst withdrawal anybody has ever seen. I think that's one of the reasons that President Putin looked at that. He said, wow, these guys are a paper tiger. Look at. We're no paper tiger. (35:49–35:55)

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Asserts that the Afghanistan withdrawal was the worst ever seen.

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