The Metro: What Americans think about President Trump’s foreign policy
This month, Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow and Yale lecturer Rebecca Lissner began speaking with people around the country about what they make of American foreign policy.
President Donald Trump speaks from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Saturday, June 21, 2025, after the U.S. military struck three Iranian nuclear and military sites, directly joining Israel's effort to decapitate the country's nuclear program, as Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listen.
Almost a decade ago, President Donald Trump began campaigning on a very different American policy than the one we previously had. He wanted America to be tougher on China, to build a wall across the Mexico-American border, and to put “America first.”
Today, a lot of that strategy has remained intact, some of it even influencing the Biden administration’s policies.
How do Americans feel about our country’s foreign policy stances? And, how do they want to see America lead?
Rebecca Lissner is a Senior fellow for US foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Brady-Johnson distinguished practitioner in grand strategy and lecturer with the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University.
This month, she began speaking with people around the country about what they make of American foreign policy. She is in town to understand how people in metro Detroit feel about the topic, and joined The Metro to share her findings.
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