--- title: Republican Convention: Donald Trump Focuses on Security description: Don’t expect to learn more about where Donald Trump stands on the coup in Turkey and other raging foreign policy crises canonical: https://time.com/4411720/republican-national-convention-donald-trump/ author: Elise Jordan article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-18T22:03:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T23:20:33.532Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Don't Expect Details From Donald Trump at the Republican Convention og:description: Don’t expect to learn more about where Donald Trump stands on the coup in Turkey and other raging foreign policy crises og:url: https://time.com/4411720/republican-national-convention-donald-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6274829ea8714ca1/69889c692dce0187cf9e9e4c/rnc_convention_floor_opening.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5145 og:image:height: 2894 og:image:alt: Republican National Convention: Day One og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Don't Expect Details From Donald Trump at the Republican Convention twitter:description: Don’t expect to learn more about where Donald Trump stands on the coup in Turkey and other raging foreign policy crises twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6274829ea8714ca1/69889c692dce0187cf9e9e4c/rnc_convention_floor_opening.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Don't Expect Details From Donald Trump at the Republican Convention > Sponsored content. 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John Moore—Getty Images  by [Elise Jordan](https://time.com/author/elise-jordan/)  ## Elise Jordan Jul 18, 2016 10:03 PM UTC After an attacker[ killed 84 people in France](http://time.com/4408909/nice-attack-democratization-terror/), and [an attempted coup upended Turkey](http://time.com/4409333/turkey-clamps-down-after-attempted-coup/), national security will rightly be a huge focus of [the Republican convention this week](http://time.com/4411116/republican-convention-never-trump-floor-protest/?xid=homepage). Donald Trump’s campaign billed the opening night of the convention as all about national security, and Trump strategist Paul Manafort said Trump’s convention speech was modeled on Richard Nixon’s 1968 “law and order” address. The implication is that Monday night will focus on fear more than actual solutions to domestic or national security crises. Don’t expect to learn more about where Trump stands on the coup in Turkey, which he briefly addressed while introducing Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his vice-presidential pick. Blaming the failed coup on Hillary Clinton and President Obama, Trump offered vague condolences—“We wish the people well”—to either the people of Turkey, its President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, or the attempted usurpers, demonstrating he really had no idea where he stood on it and felt no pressure to give specifics on a raging foreign policy crisis. To start, personalities like Duck Dynasty’s Willie Robertson, actor Scott Baio, and Antonio Sabato Jr. will burnish their national security credentials alongside speakers “Lone Survivor” Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell and members of the Benghazi security annex team. Grieving parents of children who passed away in car accidents with undocumented immigrants, as border patrol agents, or at war will also address the convention. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, along with Rick Perry; Representatives Michael McFaul and Ryan Zink; and Senators Tom Cotton, Joni Ernst, and Jeff Sessions represent more traditional convention speakers. Former military intelligence chief General Mike Flynn is Monday evening’s keynote speaker. Flynn’s freewheeling style, combined with the Trump campaign’s reputedly lax vetting of convention speeches, makes him the most likely on stage to give a forceful critique of Obama and Clinton’s foreign policy. “They didn’t change my speech, which is pretty damned good,” Flynn already [told ](http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/07/18/General-Flynn-There-s-No-Role-Me-Trump-Administration#.V40VHm3-5u8.twitter)a reporter. In an [interview](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-supporter-defends-payment-russian-175611942.html?soc%5Fsrc=mail&soc%5Ftrk=ma) Monday afternoon with Yahoo’s Michael Isikoff, Flynn deflected questions on payment related to his visit last fall to Russia, where he sat next to President Vladimir Putin at a celebration of the Russian propaganda channel RT. Flynn justified Trump’s admiration of Putin, [saying](http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/spiegel-interview-a-1103192.html) Trump “respects people who are selfish about their country. Putin is a guy who is very selfish about Russia and about the Russian federation, and he understands the history of his country.” Perhaps Flynn will use the platform to launch a pointed critique on [Clinton’s advocacy of the war in Libya](http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/hillary-clinton-debate-libya/410437/), of which Flynn has said: “Y[ou look at Libya](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/us/politics/hillary-clinton-libya.html), and you go, ‘Jesus, why the hell did we do that?’” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4411720/republican-national-convention-donald-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4411720/republican-national-convention-donald-trump/"},"headline":"Don't Expect Details From Donald Trump at the Republican Convention","datePublished":"2016-07-18T22:03:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T23:20:33.532Z","description":"Don’t expect to learn more about where Donald Trump stands on the coup in Turkey and other raging foreign policy crises","url":"https://time.com/4411720/republican-national-convention-donald-trump/","keywords":["politics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6274829ea8714ca1/69889c692dce0187cf9e9e4c/rnc_convention_floor_opening.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Elise Jordan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/elise-jordan/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6274829ea8714ca1/69889c692dce0187cf9e9e4c/rnc_convention_floor_opening.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Republican National Convention: Day One","caption":"Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, second left, along with other delegates from Virginia chant for a rule call vote on the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland.","creditText":"John Moore—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/politics/","name":"politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4411720/republican-national-convention-donald-trump/","name":"Don't Expect Details From Donald Trump at the Republican Convention"}}]}] ```