Hillary Clinton blasted the second Trump administration for being “dumb and dangerous” in a scathing op-ed in The New York Times on Friday.
“The Trump approach is dumb power,” Clinton wrote. “Instead of a strong America using all our strengths to lead the world and confront our adversaries, Mr. Trump’s America will be increasingly blind and blundering, feeble and friendless.”
The former Secretary of State criticized President Trump on a number of issues, including the accidental inclusion of The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg on a Signal group chat in which top administration officials discussed military strikes.
The officials, including Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, “put our troops in jeopardy by sharing military plans on a commercial messaging app and unwittingly invited a journalist into the chat. That’s dangerous. And it’s just dumb,” Clinton wrote.
Altogether, she used the word “dumb” six times in her post, excluding the title, which was “Hillary Clinton: How Much Dumber Will This Get?”
Clinton, who ran against and lost to Trump in the 2016 election, pointed to several other things in the first two months of his second presidency that have been upsetting. She is not a fan of the administration’s “slash-and-burn approach” to government, as Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency have looked to cut $1 trillion from the annual federal budget by cutting government jobs.
“They are not reinventing government; they’re wrecking it,” Clinton said, without naming Musk specifically in her post.
The former senator further noted that Trump’s team was wrong to cut top generals, slash USAID funding and consider shutting down foreign consulates. Lastly, Clinton blasted Trump for “cozying up to dictators like Russia’s Vladimir Putin,” without expanding on the Russia-Ukraine war and how it should be handled.
“As a businessman, he bankrupted his Atlantic City casinos. Now he’s gambling with the national security of the United States,” Clinton concluded her piece. “If this continues, a group chat foul will be the least of our concerns, and all the fist and flag emojis in the world won’t save us.”
You can read the full op-ed by clicking here.
