It is a new day coming to America, a safer and peaceful one, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Sunday, placing blame on President Barack Obama's "lackadaisical" foreign policy during his time in office for the rise of "radical Islamic terrorism" and attacks on American soil.
"The kind of thing I can say is [Obama] has a lackadaisical attitude about it," Giuliani told host John Catsimatidis on "The Cats Roundtable." "He refuses to say 'radical Islamic terrorism.'"
Giuliani added terrorists have been at war with us, but we have not been war with them in the past eight years — and if they're fighting us and we're not fighting back, "we're losing."
"We're not defending ourselves properly," Giuliani told Catsimatidis. "This is a war.
". . . This is getting really, really bad. Just about in time we're getting a very, very different president with a different approach to it."
Giuliani said terrorism after 9/11 was non-existent until the Obama administration took office, praising George W. Bush's toughness in the war on terror.
Donald Trump as the new "president will put his foot down" and "wipe out radical Islamic terrorism" — whereas the president the "last eight years made believe it did not exist."
Giuliani had been a contender for the Secretary of State position in Donald Trump's Cabinet, but decided he would stay in the private sector and "help from the outside by being an Independent voice."
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