Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s temperament makes him a “dangerous proposition” to be the US commander-in-chief and his ideas could put the world on the path of a nuclear arms race, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton’s close aide has said.
“It is very, very difficult to pin down where he stands on a lot of these policies,” Clinton’s Senior Foreign Policy Advisor Jake Sullivan said when asked about his views on Trump’s foreign policy proposals during a discussion at the Asia Society here on Monday.
In the conversation with former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on foreign policy, Sullivan slammed Trump for his continuously oscillating views on how he would deal with other nations, including major powers like Russia and China, saying he does not have the temperament to be an effective commander-in-chief.
“He’ll say on the one hand, the Chinese are eating our lunch, and on the other hand, we have all the leverage in the world to make the Chinese do whatever we want,” Sullivan said. “On the one hand, we should sit down with the Russians ...On the other hand, if I need to, I’ll just shoot down Russian fighter jets,” Sullivan said.