The Madman Theory: Trump Takes on the World - Jim Sciutto
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American Values
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From praising dictators to alienating allies, Trump made chaos his calling card. But four years into his administration, had his strategy caused more problems than it solved?
Richard Nixon tried it first. Hoping to make communist bloc countries uneasy and thus unstable, Nixon let them think he was just crazy enough to nuke them. He called this “the madman theory”. Nearly half a century later, President Trump employed his own “madman theory”, sometimes intentionally and sometimes not.
Trump praised Kim Jong-un and their “love notes,” admired and flattered Vladimir Putin, and gave a greenlight to Recep Tayyip Erdogan to invade Syria. Meanwhile, he attacked US institutions and officials, ignored his own advisors, and turned his back on US allies from Canada and Mexico to NATO to Ukraine to the Kurds at war with ISIS. Trump was willing to make the nation’s most sensitive and consequential decisions while often ignoring the best information and intelligence available to him. He continually caught the world off guard, but did it work?
In ‘The Madman Theory’, Jim Sciutto showed how Trump’s supporters assumed he had a strategy for long-term success - that he somehow played three-dimensional chess. Four years into Trump’s presidency, it was clear his unpredictable focus on short-term headlines did in fact lead to predictably mediocre results in the short and long run. Trump’s foreign policy undermined American values and national security interests, while hurting allies who had been on our side for decades, leaving them isolated and vulnerable without American support.
Meanwhile, Trump had comforted and emboldened our enemies. The White House’s revolving door of staff demonstrated that Trump had no real plan; all serious policymakers - and those who would be a check on his most destructive impulses - were exiled or jumped ship.
Sciutto interviewed a wide swath of then-current and former administration officials to assemble the first comprehensive portrait of the impact of Trump’s erratic foreign policy.
Smart, authoritative, and compelling, ‘The Madman Theory’ is the definitive take on Trump’s calamitous legacy around the globe, showing how his proclivity for chaos was creating a world which was more unstable, violent, and impoverished than it had been before.
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This post has 9 comments with rating of 3.7/5
December 11th, 2023
Jimmy Scumutto works for the Chlamydia News Nutworks. No need to know anymore than that.
December 11th, 2023
It was never 4d Chess, it was only pocket billiards.
But it was good enough to fool the Evangelicals.
December 12th, 2023
@apollo60: man, every time I see your name, your post just screams “I’m a virgin” LOL
December 12th, 2023
Trump is such a convenient scapegoat. Liberals would be totally lost without him.
December 12th, 2023
@Thamus We did just fine before he inserted himself into politics. And we’ll do just fine after he shuffles off this mortal coil.
December 13th, 2023
Kolo, I reckon you’re right. The way Apollo throws around words like Chlamydia smacks of him merely dreaming of getting close to the disease. None the less I can’t help but admire the diligent way it polices these uploads. In his tiny world he imagines a giant score board with his name in lights each time he posts, changing opinions as neutrals read each tirade.
December 16th, 2023
“Democrats”, an obsolete political party with a vile history, incapable of self-reliance and adrift without Trump. The typical bigoted democrat is a billboard of defensive projection, attributing their own unacceptable urges to everyone they fear. Masters of cliches, and misinformation, the democrat is an expert deceiver not just of others, but themselves.
January 22nd, 2024
Please stop picking on “apollo60″. It is wrong to mock the afflicted or to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
Be amazed that the man actually came to this page to Download this audiobook.
I’m certain he is at this minute enjoying himself as he ponders the author’s opinions, juxtaposing his own biases with those of the author to derive a working hypothesis as to the true politics of the state.
Or just trolling - who knows?
September 19th, 2024
@apollo60 - CNN is ran by a huge Trump donor. You would think the MAGA faithful would know that considering they have given him just as many interviews and Town Halls as Fox News.
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