It was a week of massive flip-flops for Donald Trump and as David Jackson at USA TODAY explains, it’s giving the world “policy whiplash”:
Three months in office, President Trump is giving the world policy whiplash.
A week after ordering a missile strike on Syria — in stark contrast to the position he took as a private citizen in 2013 — the still-new president is now reversing himself on a host of issues, from Russia to NATO, from Chinese currency valuation to the worthiness of the Export-Import Bank.
All presidents change positions once they get into office and receive more information, but Trump's pace "is still pretty remarkable," said political scientist Nicole Renee Hemmer, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia's Miller Center.
"We’ve had plenty of evidence over the past year and a half that Trump is a man of impulses more than a man of doctrine," she said, "which makes his policies much more pliable than most politicians."
David Graham at The Atlantic:
Trump’s tendency to take up the position of the last person with whom he spoke on a given issue has been widely noted. Xi’s claim that North Korea is an intractable problem is a widely held one, and North Korea bedeviled Presidents Obama, Bush, and Clinton, too, but it’s disconcerting that a foreign leader could so quickly dazzle Trump. The combination of little knowledge and practically no ideological commitments also makes the ongoing battle between factions in Trump’s White House much higher stakes than they might otherwise be. [...] When you don’t know things, you are more likely to make errors. This is even more dangerous when, as Donald Rumsfeld could have taught Trump, you don’t know what you don’t know. You’re easily susceptible to the influence of others, too.
Kia Makarechi at Vanity Fair:
Could it be that the same man who claims to know “more than anybody” actually knows less, and about fewer subjects, than he might have assumed?
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