John Bolton has strongly suggested he will seek the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, running on the idea that America needs a “much stronger foreign policy.”
Speaking in an exclusive interview with Good Morning Britain, Bolton, who served as a National Security Advisor under President Trump, said if he decided to run, he would “get in to win the nomination and I would do it primarily on the basis that we need a much stronger foreign policy.”
Bolton added that he believed it is “important that it’s understood not just in Moscow, but it’s understood in places like Beijing, that unprovoked aggression against your neighbors is not something the United States and its allies will tolerate.”
Donald Trump's former national security advisor John Bolton has told us that he will run for US President in a bid to stop his former boss from getting back into the White House. pic.twitter.com/ZY66AFQ2od
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) January 6, 2023
Despite being unpopular himself, Bolton declared that the “support” for former President Trump within the Republican Party itself is in “terminal decline,” and that his campaign wouldn’t be as a “vanity candidate,” but would be standing as someone with a serious chance of winning.
Bolton had previously hinted in December that he would make a bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Speaking to NBC, he said that if potential Republican nominees for President didn’t make “Shermanesque statements” denouncing and attacking Trump, he would have to step in.
“We’ve got perhaps a dozen or more potential presidential candidates looking to 2024,” Bolton stated on NBC’s Meet the Press NOW. “I think every one of them, before they declare their candidacy, should say, ‘Donald Trump was wrong. We repudiate him. He doesn’t belong in the Republican Party.'”
“When you challenge the Constitution itself, that is un-American,” Bolton tweeted. “This is serious business.”
When you challenge the Constitution itself, that is un-American. If the current GOP presidential candidates don't repudiate Trump, I'm prepared to get in the race. pic.twitter.com/mKnU2tDhyc
— John Bolton (@AmbJohnBolton) December 5, 2022
Bolton’s announcement was widely mocked on social media, with many Americans making fun of his pro-war tendencies.
BREAKING: John Bolton announces he WILL run for the White House in 2024 pic.twitter.com/uHJzruyYWW
— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld_) January 6, 2023
Here is a list of countries John Bolton would invade as President pic.twitter.com/Y2SVvagXEi
— Harrison (@HarrisonKrank) January 6, 2023
John Boltons 2024 campaign slogan? #Poll #Johnbolton
— Styxhexenhammer666 (@Styx666Official) January 6, 2023
President Trump fired Bolton in 2019, and lambasted him multiple times as an “idiot,” including in a recent interview with Revolver News’s Darren Beattie. “He was such a nutjob,” Trump said. “If we would’ve listened to him, we would’ve been in three world wars by the time we finished!”
September, 2020. Trump on John Bolton. pic.twitter.com/pfiYBzCZk8
— Maze (@mazemoore) January 6, 2023
