Syria pullout plan illustrates Trump's 'America first' policy
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump, in a pair of tweets Wednesday summarizing his worldview, justified his decision to order American troops withdrawn from Syria while promising that the military would instead put resources into building the wall he's long espoused along the U.S.-Mexico border.
"We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency," Trump tweeted, shortly before his press secretary announced that "we have started returning United States troops home as we transition to the next phase of this campaign."
That declaration from Trump came shortly after another Twitter missive in which he declared that "because of the tremendous dangers at the Border, including large scale criminal and drug inflow, the United States Military will build the Wall!"
The joint tweets offered perhaps the clearest distillation to date of Trump's "America first" policy:
