Drumpf Doctrine: ‘We’re America, Bitch’!

[SIZE=7]A Senior White House Official Defines the Trump Doctrine: ‘We’re America, Bitch’[/SIZE]
The president believes that the United States owes nothing to anyone—especially its allies.

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As President Donald Trump attacked America’s closest allies while jetting to Singapore for his much-anticipated summit with one of the world’s most brutal dictators, foreign policy experts remain largely unclear on his approach to world affairs.

But one senior White House official described the president’s ideology succinctly.

“The Trump Doctrine is ‘We’re America, Bitch,’” the official told Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s editor in chief, in a story published Monday.

“Obama apologized to everyone for everything. He felt bad about everything,” said the official, who Goldberg wrote has “direct access to the president and his thinking.”

Trump, by contrast, “doesn’t feel like he has to apologize for anything America does,” the official said.

Another senior staffer seconded that characterization.

“The president believes that we’re America, and people can take it or leave it,” the staffer said.

Goldberg spoke to several of the president’s close aides and friends over a period of months in an attempt to better understand Trump’s “America First” doctrine, and he found a few varying interpretations.

One senior administration official described the Trump ideology as “No Friends, No Enemies,” explaining that the president doesn’t believe the US needs to maintain any long-term alliances, and instead should take a more transactional, short-term approach.

Another top national security official alternately described the Trump Doctrine as “permanent destabilization creates American advantage” — meaning that if the US keeps both its allies and its adversaries off balance, it will set the agenda.

Yet another friend of Trump’s characterized Trump’s approach as simply a reversal of President Barack Obama’s international legacy.

“There’s the Obama Doctrine, and the ‘F— Obama’ Doctrine,” he told Goldberg. “We’re the ‘F— Obama’ Doctrine.”

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No one wants to claim this “handshake” as a Kenyan export?

Interesting Read: Trump is actually an incarnated Kaiser Wilhelm II, who ruled Germany from 1888 to 1918:

[SIZE=7]What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire?[/SIZE]

About a decade ago, I published “George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I,” a book that was, in part, about Kaiser Wilhelm, who is probably best known for being Queen Victoria’s first grandchild and for leading Germany into the First World War. Ever since Donald Trump started campaigning for President, the Kaiser has once again been on my mind—his personal failings, and the global fallout they led to.
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When Wilhelm became emperor, in 1888, at twenty-nine years old, he was determined to be seen as tough and powerful. He fetishized the Army, surrounded himself with generals (though, like Trump, he didn’t like listening to them), owned a hundred and twenty military uniforms, and wore little else. He cultivated a special severe facial expression for public occasions and photographs—there are many, as Wilhelm would send out signed photos and portrait busts to anyone who’d have one—and also a heavily waxed, upward-turned moustache that was so famous it had its own name, “Er ist Erreicht!” (It is accomplished!)
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Trump’s tweets were what first reminded me of the Kaiser. Wilhelm was a compulsive speechmaker who constantly strayed off script. Even his staff couldn’t stop him, though it tried, distributing copies of speeches to the German press before he’d actually given them. Unfortunately, the Austrian press printed the speeches as they were delivered, and the gaffes and insults soon circulated around Europe. “There is only one person who is master in this empire and I am not going to tolerate any other,” Wilhelm liked to say, even though Germany had a democratic assembly and political parties. (“I’m the only one that matters,” Trump has said.) The Kaiser reserved particular abuse for political parties that voted against his policies. “I regard every Social Democrat as an enemy of the Fatherland,” he said, and he denounced the German Socialist party as a “gang of traitors.” August Bebel, the Socialist party leader, said that every time the Kaiser opened his mouth, the party gained another hundred thousand votes.

The Kaiser’s darkest secret was that every few years—after his meddling and blunders had exposed his incompetence or resulted in a crisis—he would suffer a full-blown collapse. His entourage would scrape him off the floor, and he would retire to one of his palaces, where, prostrate, he would weep and complain that he’d been victimized. After the moaning came the pacing, in uncharacteristic silence. Occasionally he would give way to tears. Gradually he would recalibrate his sense of reality—or unreality—and after a few weeks would bounce up again, as boisterous and obstreperous as ever.

I’m not suggesting that Trump is about to start the Third World War. But recent foreign developments—the wild swings with North Korea, the ditching of the Iran nuclear deal, the threat of a trade war with China—suggest upheavals that could quickly grow out of American control. Some of Trump’s critics suppose that these escalating crises might cause him to loosen, or even lose, his grip on the Presidency. The real lesson of Kaiser Wilhelm II, however, may be that Trump’s leaving office might not be the end of the problems he may bring on or exacerbate—it may be only the beginning.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/what-happens-when-a-bad-tempered-distractible-doofus-runs-an-empire

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At least they are not Indian’s Bitch like the Uk is. Did you know that recently a whole Ugandan family got targeted and harassed by an Indian politics personality and that the Uk police force did not do anything. I personally think that in East Africa Indians are a Danger. Simply everything started when the elder of the family went to their dodgy shop to buy CASSAVA. Apparently the owner of the shop himself is a RACIST. They have know got so many problems, the oldest children cannot study… They have been doint it because she is black.

Honestly it is sad for us EAST African to have to tolerate such Racist people on our soil. It is not normal that they sell your food, they come to your land to be fed, to study and when you are in the Uk they come to ruin all the chances that they gained in your HOMELAND. We need to sell our food , our own products to our own people, so that such thing will NEVER HAPPEN.

Drumpf is a fool. He didn’t get anything of substance from Kim on denuclearization. Yet he trashed a much better Obama deal on Iran for being “too weak” (Trump for “I didn’t make the deal so it’s bad”).

Mi naona Iran wako na opportunity hapa. They should just suck up to Trump, praise him for his Korean deals, start mentioning how he may win the Nobel Prize (basically appeal to his vanity) and then trick him into signing a more lenient deal na waendelee kutengeneza nukes. They can also bribe him indirectly. Trump is very easy to manipulate.