A ‘serious’ foreign policy speech doesn’t make Trump any less terrifying

After a clean sweep of convincing wins in the latest slew of primaries, Donald Trump looks better placed than ever to secure enough delegates to win the Republican presidential nomination. With that in mind, Trump has been taking a number of steps to appear more statesmanlike. One of the steps Trump has taken in an effort to appear more presidential and less, well, Trump-like, was a major foreign policy speech delivered at the prestigious Mayflower Hotel in Washington DC. This is the first time Trump has offered an extended explanation of his foreign policy worldview. By Trump’s standards, it was a polished performance that featured a coherent structure – something that is usually missing from his rambling campaign speeches. But however superficially polished, the speech also retained typically Trumpian elements of the clumsy and/or the implausible.