Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump criticized the U.S. government’s decision to support protests against then-President Hosni Mubarak in what later became known as the 25 January Revolution. Speaking on foreign policy in a speech in New York, Donald Trump said that Hillary Clinton, who was then Secretary of State under Obama’s Presidency, had opened “Pandora’s box for radical Islam” by supporting the ouster of a “friendly regime.” “[Hillary Clinton] helped force out a friendly regime in Egypt and replace it with the radical Muslim Brotherhood,” said Trump during his speech. “The Egyptian military has retaken control, but Clinton has opened the Pandora’s box of radical Islam.” The comments, which appear to support Egypt’s current government under President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, a former military general, have been met with mockery on social media. Social media users have widely circulated a 2011 interview with Trump where he strongly criticized a “corrupt” Hosni Mubarak. “If you take look at Egypt — I’m not blaming anything or anybody for Egypt — although I would like to know how a man worth $70 billion that’s working as head of a country,” said Trump in an interview…
