President-elect Trump’s tone toward allies and non-allies is totally unpredictable and can change anytime so it will be up to other government officials to find solutions, former Deputy Secretary of State for Defense Jim Townsend says.
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00:00Do you think that this is an indication of how Trump will treat crucial allies during his second term in power?
00:07Well, I think it is
00:09We'll have to see it could be that before the inauguration if he's talking to a rally
00:14He gets into that campaign mode and he says these things will he be that way after January 20th?
00:20probably in some ways
00:23And it's it's something that I don't think he reserves just for countries that are not allies
00:27I think if you're an ally and you have rubbed in the wrong way, he's going to be
00:33This this harsh on the air, but what does he do when he's not being filmed and he's there's not a microphone in front of him
00:39What does he do behind closed doors? What do his people do?
00:44We have a secretary of state and a secretary of defense and other
00:47Cabinet officials who will be out there working with these countries and I hope they're not going to be like that
00:53I think this is just something good that comes from the president. But when things are
00:57Negotiated when solutions are trying to be found for problems if we're trying to get allies to come along with us in a certain direction
01:04You can't do that the way Trump does with that microphone
01:07it has to be people in there who know how to work with others and
01:11Let's hope that we'll see more of that and less of the rhetoric