Trump salutes supporters in Florida, names budget director
ORLANDO, Fla. — President-elect Donald Trump, in the latest stop of his victory lap, told a military veteran-laden crowd in Florida on Friday that while he would build up the country’s armed forces, he would use them sparingly as commander-in-chief.
“For too long, we’ve moving from one reckless intervention to another, to countries you’ve never heard of before,” Trump said at a rally in Orlando. “It’s crazy and it’s going to stop.”
Trump still vowed to defeat the Islamic State group, offering no details but promising a foreign policy strategy that “means crushing ISIS rapidly.”
He also vowed to keep “radical Islamic terrorists” out of the country by banning immigration from regions afflicted by terror — and pledged that tragedies like June’s mass shooting at a nearby Orlando nightclub, which left 49 dead, would never happen again. That shooter was a U.S. citizen born in New York and would likely have been unaffected by Trump’s proposals.