Buttigieg: Trump undermining US credibility ‘is going to cost us for years and years’

South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) said Sunday that President Trump’s approach to foreign policy will “cost us for years and years” on the world stage.

Buttigieg, appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” assailed what he called the inconsistency of Trump’s foreign policy, particularly in the wake of his withdrawal of U.S. forces from northeastern Syria.

{mosads}”What President Trump does is wake up in the morning, have a phone call or maybe a tweet and completely change years, or even decades, of U.S. policy, surprising his own generals and country in the process,” Buttigieg, a military veteran, told host Chuck Todd.

“If we think that there is a commitment, a treaty or a deal that we can improve on we go to the table and we make it happen. But the credibility of the United States is something that our lives depend on. And when the president undermines it with things like the action in Syria, that is going to cost us for years and years,” he added. “We’ve got to be a country known to keep its word.”

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“What President Trump does is wake up in the morning and have a phone call or maybe a tweet and completely change years or even decades of U.S. policy, surprising his own generals and country.” pic.twitter.com/wnaGk7cyx4

— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) October 20, 2019

The Syria pullout has drawn bipartisan condemnation, with critics of the move calling it a betrayal of Kurdish forces that the U.S. backed in the fight against ISIS. Vice President Pence and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced a cease-fire last week, but Turkish forces have already accused the Kurds of violating it.