WATCH: John McCain Just Dismantled Donald Trump’s World View At Munich Security Conference
Senator John McCain took a shot at Donald Trump and his world view during a speech at the Munich Security Conference.
On questions of the survival of the West and Western values, McCain said, “In recent years, this question would invite accusations of hyperbole and alarmism. Not this year.”
“If ever there were a time to treat this question with a deadly seriousness, it is now.”
Specifically to Trump and his world view, McCain added:
“[The founders of the Munich conference] would be alarmed by an increasing turn away from universal values and toward old ties of blood and race and sectarianism.”
“They would be alarmed by the hardening resentment we see toward immigrants and refugees and minority groups, especially Muslims.”
“They would be alarmed by the growing inability, and even unwillingness, to separate truth from lies.”
McCain continued: “But what would alarm them most, I think, is a sense that many of our peoples, including in my own country, are giving up on the West, that they see it as a bad deal that we may be better off without, and that while Western nations still have the power to maintain our world order, it is unclear whether we have the will.”
McCain also addressed those who worry about America’s role as the leader of the West by saying:
“I know there is profound concern across Europe and the world that America is laying down the mantle of global leadership. I can only speak for myself, but I do not believe that is the message you will hear from all of the American leaders who cared enough to travel here to Munich this weekend. That is not the message you heard today from Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis. That is not the message you will hear from Vice President Mike Pence. That is not the message you will hear from Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly. And that is certainly not the message you will hear tomorrow from our bipartisan congressional delegation.”
Then McCain took a shot at Trump’s moral equivalence between American and Russia saying, “I refuse to accept that our values are morally equivalent to those of our adversaries,” he said. “I am a proud, unapologetic believer in the West, and I believe we must always, always stand up for it. For if we do not, who will?”
