Presidential candidate Donald Trump took the stage at a routine campaign rally exactly a year ago in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024. But this rally would turn out unlike any others of his political career.

In a video rolling out his foreign policy agenda during the 2024 campaign, Trump called himself "the only president who rejected the catastrophic advice of many of Washington's generals, bureaucrats, and the so-called diplomats who only know how to get us into conflict, but they don't know how to get us out."