Madeleine Albright says foreigners think 'we've lost our minds' in the 2016 election

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told Fox Business on Wednesday that she's finding it tough to talk politics with foreigners in the 2016 election cycle, especially given the popularity of Donald Trump.

"One of the hard parts about being a diplomat, when you go abroad, you don't want to criticize your country, and so trying to explain what's going on to foreigners is hard, but they are looking at us as if we've lost our minds," said Albright, who backs Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.

Albright recently visited Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, where she said she fielded one question quite frequently: "What is going on in America?"

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See more of Albright's interview here.