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1. Background

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   • The 2016 Election was Divisive
   • His administration is even more divisive

   His approval was at it’s lowest at 34% at end of admin.

   His approval was at it’s lowest at 34% at end of admin.

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   • Research Objective
     • What is the foreign policy approach of Donald Trump?
     • How does Donald Trump’s foreign policy approach differ from other democrats and republican presidents?
   • Hypothesis
     1. Donald Trump is a unusual phenomenon that doesn’t represent partisan divide and he was a Populist and isolationist president.
     2. Trump and Obama’s Foreign Policy both employed a specific type of retrenchment that could preserve at the same time, both American forces and their stand as an exceptional power in the eyes of the international community
   • Literature Review
     • The Trump Divide and Partisan Attitudes Regarding US Foreign Policy: Select Theoretical and Empirical Observations
       • Trump’s foreign policy is only popular with 21% of 2016 voters
       • Voter’s opinions are closer to party leader than core policy position of party itself
       • Trump voters prefer unilateral and isolationist approach
       • Mainstream voters support multilateral approach
     • Changes in the American Foreign Policy: From Obama to Trump
       • Obama had retrechment approach to foreign policy through strategic deliberation
       • Trump still put America first, but through isolationist program