Releases 'America First' National Security Strategy emphasizing sovereignty over alliances

Trump unveiled his first National Security Strategy (NSS), a document that codified his 'America First' campaign rhetoric into official U.S. policy. The strategy departed from post-Cold War consensus by framing the world as an arena of 'continuous competition' among sovereign nations rather than a community built on cooperation and international institutions. It de-emphasized the promotion of democracy and human rights, omitted climate change as a national security threat (reversing Obama-era policy), and prioritized economic prosperity and border security as core national security pillars. While the document itself was more conventional than Trump's rhetoric—affirming commitments to NATO—Trump's speech introducing it was notably more isolationist, attacking predecessors for 'betraying' citizens and emphasizing rivalry with China and Russia.

"We are declaring that America is in the game and America is going to win." — Speech introducing the National Security Strategy