He tore into Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton for her "failed policy of nation building and regime change ... in Iraq, Libya, Egypt and Syria." This, from the party which for years has supported intervention and promoting democracy abroad.

So often, discussions about Trump's foreign policy center around his idea to build a giant border wall between the US and Mexico, or his call to ban all Muslims from entering the US.

But how would a President Trump handle some of the other challenges facing the US abroad?

The Middle East

Let's start with the fast moving political situation in Turkey, an American ally.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has imposed the first nationwide state of emergency since the 1980s, and the government is cracking down, closing schools, arresting tens of thousands of people: judges, professors, teachers, military police and civil servants, anyone who's seen as sympathetic to the country's failed coup.