'Trump killed it': Conservative says president is undoing his own winning slogan
Conservative writer William Kristol is blaming Donald Trump for killing MAGA's winning "America First" slogan as he continues to meddle in foreign affairs.
The isolationist "America First" motto was coined by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916 as he pledged to keep the U.S. out of WWI. Trump used it in his 2024 campaign to rail against globalization, but that's far from what's been happening during his second term, Kristol wrote in a new article for The Bulwark.
Under the headline, "'America First' Is Dead And Donald Trump Killed It," Kristol wrote, "The fact is, for all the talk about rejecting 'globalists,' the experience of the Trump administration is one of intervening, repeatedly, in global affairs."...
Jun 20, 2025