Words matter
By Sean Sullivan and Mike DeBonis
February 18 at 5:25 PM
... Lawmakers are speaking in increasingly urgent tones about Trump’s unusual foreign policy statements and his tendency to pick fights with domestic and international figures ...
“The next panel asks us to consider whether the West will survive. In recent years, this question would invite accusations of hyperbole and alarmism. Not this year,” McCain said, according to prepared remarks delivered Friday at the Munich Security Conference. “If ever there were a time to treat this question with a deadly seriousness, it is now” ...
... others are losing patience with the Trump administration amid qualms about its approach to national security, the U.S.-Russian relationship and the risk to long-standing alliances the United States has cultivated with other nations ...
“We thought he was erratic; we’re learning just how erratic he really is,” Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, said in a C-SPAN interview with a Washington Post reporter recorded Friday. “If this past week’s press conference is any indication of how he’s going to conduct himself, I actually think it’s not just about House Democrats, but my House Republican colleagues: When do they show any sign of resistance to this administration?” ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/lawmakers-say-trumps-words-matter--and-are-hurting-the-countrys-standing-abroad/2017/02/17/1cacaa9e-f55b-11e6-a9b0-ecee7ce475fc_story.html?utm_term=.6bac5272d004
