{"id":16205,"date":"2018-06-13T08:15:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T13:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=16205"},"modified":"2018-06-13T08:16:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T13:16:42","slug":"16205","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/06\/13\/16205\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hope They Weren’t Sweating Too Hard On This Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeffrey Goldberg\u00a0notes\u00a0<\/a>in\u00a0The Atlantic\u00a0<\/b><\/i>the essence of the Trump attitude towards the rest of the world:<\/p>\n

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The best distillation of the Trump Doctrine I heard, though, came from a senior White House official with direct access to the president and his thinking. I was talking to this person several weeks ago, and I said, by way of introduction, that I thought it might perhaps be too early to discern a definitive Trump Doctrine.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d the official said. \u201cThere\u2019s definitely a Trump Doctrine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is it?\u201d I asked. Here is the answer I received:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Trump Doctrine is \u2018We\u2019re America, Bitch.\u2019 That\u2019s the Trump Doctrine.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’s amateurism at its best, isn’t it? A noisy little bit of street jargon, dressed up with attitude, masquerading as a master policy, promulgated by a profoundly incurious narcissist. As if that’s going to help America advance its national interests. Goldberg also mentions the analysis by Thomas Wright of Trump during the Presidential primaries:<\/p>\n

The Brookings Institution scholar (and frequent\u00a0Atlantic<\/em>\u00a0contributor)\u00a0Thomas Wright<\/a>\u00a0argued in\u00a0a January 2016 essay<\/a>\u00a0that Trump\u2019s views are both discernible and explicable. Wright, who published his analysis at a time when most everyone in the foreign-policy establishment considered Trump\u2019s candidacy to be a farce, wrote that Trump loathes the liberal international order and would work against it as president; he wrote that Trump also dislikes America\u2019s military alliances, and would work against them; he argued that Trump believes in his bones that the global economy is unfair to the U.S.; and, finally, he wrote that Trump has an innate sympathy for \u201cauthoritarian strongmen.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Give the man a prize. The next President, assuming they are a more conventional politician, will have a tall order in restoring American prestige and influence world-wide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeffrey Goldberg\u00a0notes\u00a0in\u00a0The Atlantic\u00a0the essence of the Trump attitude towards the rest of the world: The best distillation of the Trump Doctrine I heard, though, came from a senior White House official with direct access to the president and his thinking. I was talking to this person several weeks ago, and \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16207,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16205\/revisions\/16207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}