Is this, finally, the Trump Doctrine?

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‘It doesn’t matter.’ ‘We’ll see.’ The Trump Doctrine is sounding more fatalistic every day.

It was Feb. 27, 2004, and Donald Trump was on “Larry King Live” to talk about his new hit TV show “The Apprentice.” Eight episodes had already aired — including one titled “Ethics Shmethics” — and the real estate mogul seemed pleased to gab with King about his return to relevance. Near the end of the segment, a caller from Burlington, N.J., asked Trump how he handles stress.

“I try and tell myself it doesn’t matter,” Trump replied. “Nothing matters. If you tell yourself it doesn’t matter — like you do shows, you do this, you do that, and then you have earthquakes in India where 400,000 people get killed. Honestly, it doesn’t matter.”

Last Sunday, Trump was again on television, this time as president of the United States, and not for a softball chat with a showbiz pal. Lesley Stahl of “60 Minutes” pressed Trump about his public mockery of Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexual assault.

“It doesn’t matter,” Trump said eventually. “We won.”

It doesn’t matter. Nothing really matters. Is this, finally, the Trump Doctrine?

Most presidents have governed from the standpoint of things mattering. Individuals matter. Words matter. Life matters.

“Show up,” Barack Obama said during his farewell address. “Dive in. Persevere.”

“Make the choice to serve in a cause larger than your wants, larger than yourself,” George W. Bush said during his second inaugural address.

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Or perhaps this is not a doctrine at all, but a tactic. In his “maybes” and “we’ll see what happens,” Blair hears a man hedging, refusing to promise anything — “building in deniability,” she says, so no one can ever go back to his statements and say his word was no good. O’Brien, meanwhile, sees statements that are left “intentionally wishy-washy” because “he doesn’t have enough insight into issues to actually know what he thinks about it.”

That last one seems to be the most relevant. Every other President has been able to state some "talking point" fact. Some statistic...some concrete stat...you know with a number attached. Trump never does. It's always "people say" or "someone says" or "we'll see" or "wait and see what happens". The guy has no command of anything other than a few catch phrases his followers can bleat back to him at a rally.
 

GURPS

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The guy has no command of anything other than a few catch phrases his followers can bleat back to him at a rally.



Anyone or Anything that does not conform to YOUR World View is Either Ignorant, Uneducated or Selfish .....

Every post you make is against anyone or any group that doesn't conform to your propagandist viewpoints.

Fantasy, Supposition, Innuendo and Unfounded OPINION
 
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