House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) defended President Donald Trump during an interview over the weekend following the blowup that happened in the Oval Office this week with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Johnson made the remarks during a Sunday interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” with host Dana Bash when asked if “America First” meant that the United States would no longer “support democracies when threatened with tyranny.”
“No, America First is everything that that phrase implies,” Johnson said. “I have always considered myself a Reagan Republican. I believe in the idea that he used to articulate well that, after World War II, America had a very certain responsibility. We’re the last great superpower on the planet. It’s very important that we maintain that status.”
“But we cannot maintain that status unless we maintain our own strength,” he…
