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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
John Bowden

Trump’s Middle East trip formalizes his rebuke of the Republican Party’s ‘neocons’

Donald Trump condemned his party's neoconservative past in Riyadh on Tuesday - (Getty Images)

Donald Trump touched down in Qatar on Wednesday as he began the second leg of his Middle East tour, the first official foreign trip of his second presidency.

But it was his remarks on Tuesday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, that resonated across the US foreign policy sphere as the Republican president blasted “interventionalists” on both sides of the American political spectrum — a message that was at once a rebuke of three living former presidents and much of the traditional Washington establishment.

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