Chris Cuomo praises Trump’s ‘good’ foreign policy moves

NewsNation host Chris Cuomo, on a Tuesday episode of “The Chris Cuomo Project,” credited President Donald Trump with taking positive foreign policy actions during his second term.

The episode of Cuomo’s podcast consisted of the host grading the first six months of Trump’s second term, with the host awarding the president a “B” on foreign policy. Cuomo cited America’s June bombing of Iran and Trump’s deal to get NATO to pay for U.S. weapons for Ukraine as constructive moves that contributed to the grade.

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“Iran alone was a great stopgap measure. As long as that regime is in place, it’s an extreme Islamist, terroristic regime. It oppresses its own people. They are death to us, death to Israel,” Cuomo said. “As long as they exist and are not replaced by something that approximates better, we have an active threat. That said, there’s no question that the bombing sent a very strong message to the regime. Their proxies have been beaten down thanks mostly to Israel, but also American intervention. And their nuclear program has been slowed.”

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the Iranian government all have generally claimed that the U.S. strikes inflicted significant damage to Iran’s nuclear program.

“What he just did with the equipment that’s going to Ukraine and having the surrounding countries pay for it — that’s a good move,” he added. “Good move. Getting NATO in — good move.”

Trump told NBC News in a July 10 interview that NATO would foot the bill for U.S.-supplied Patriot missile shipments to Ukraine, saying he reached the arrangement at the June NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands.

Cuomo’s producer Greg Ott noted that it appears as though Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte have “a working relationship.” The host agreed their relationship was currently “productive.”

“Look, NATO is exactly what [Russian President Vladimir] Putin doesn’t want,” he added. “The only high ground that Putin has — and I don’t think he has any high ground — but the only suggestion of rationale for any type of use of force would be that he’s getting surrounded by NATO and they’re going to try to come at him.”

“Now, I don’t believe that that’s true. I don’t think it’s plausible. But Trump just brought NATO in in a way that [former President Joe] Biden never did,” Cuomo said. “So, he just stuck a thumb in Putin’s eye in a way that also goes into my grade of a B.”

NATO members also agreed in June to increase their defense spending from 2% of gross domestic product (GDP) to 5% by 2035 after Trump pressured them, vindicating the president against critics who cautioned his tough stance would damage the alliance.

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