(Drew Angerer/Getty Images)BRUSSELS — President Trump should listen to his national-security Cabinet officials on foreign policy matters, not chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) told an audience of European leaders Friday. Although he has not spoken to Trump, McCain said he speaks to Trump national-security officials “almost daily,” including Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and national security adviser H.R. Not referring to Bannon directly, McCain criticized many of the foreign-policy positions Bannon and Trump have articulated in the past, including on trade and Russia. He also compared Trump’s slogan for foreign policy, “America First,” to its original usage by isolationist foreign-policy leaders in the 1930s. Embedded in that message was an acknowledgement that Trump’s foreign policy is still a work in progress and that there are no guarantees which way it will go.

Source: Washington Post March 24, 2017 21:05 UTC