Politics

‘We’re losing this country, that’s why I won election easily’ – Trump to CBS

US President-elect Donald J. Trump has given his first official TV interview to CBS, focusing on hot topics at the center of his campaign, from a border wall, gay marriage and abortion, to taxes, anti-Trump demonstrations and ending wars in the Mid-East.

The president-elect believes that his victory has been partly determined by how disappointed and angry people are about the US foreign policy – instead of focusing on things back at home.

“It’s a moment in time where politicians for a long period of time have let people down. They’ve let them down on the job front. They’ve even let them down in terms of the war front. You know, we’ve been fighting this war for 15 years,” Trump said.

“We’ve spent $6 trillion in the Middle East, $6 trillion, we could have rebuilt our country twice. And you look at our roads and our bridges and our tunnels and our airports… [They] are, like, obsolete,” he added.

So instead, the new US leader pledges to pay much more attention to things at home – but first and foremost, to how that home is protected.