President Donald Trump vowed on the campaign trail to end free foreign aid, and while Democrats, lawyers, and judges are pushing back on his agenda, Trump says the rebalancing of the global order on both trade and defensive weapons is necessary.

“The United States of America has been ripped off on trade (and military!), by friend and foe, alike, for decades,” Trump wrote in a Monday morning Truth Social post. “It has come at a cost of trillions of dollars, and it is just not sustainable any longer – and never was!”

The “long free ride” has come to a long overdue end, according to Trump.

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