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Just How Dangerous Is Donald Trump?
Just How Dangerous Is Donald Trump?
In her final podcast, Susan Glasser reflects on the president’s erratic foreign policy—and discusses some scenarios for a risk-filled year ahead.
By SUSAN B. GLASSER April 16, 2018
Donald Trump has outlived the “axis of adults” who was supposed to guide and shape his foreign policy. He’s run through two national security advisers, innumerable lawyers and lower-level aides, an attorney general, an array of Cabinet secretaries and, any day now, the second of two White House chiefs of staff. He’s dumped the ideologist who helped elect him and never really clarified what his “America First” campaign slogan was all about anyways.
But since we launched The Global Politico days after his inauguration, Trump has more than followed through on his election pledge to shake up the Washington establishment of both parties when it comes to America’s position in the world. Each week, we’ve watched as he’s reoriented – or tried to – U.S. policy toward everywhere from Iran to North Korea, Russia to our North American neighbors.
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Copyright © 2017 Panoply Media, LLC. All rights reserved
In her final podcast, Susan Glasser reflects on the president’s erratic foreign policy—and discusses some scenarios for a risk-filled year ahead.
By SUSAN B. GLASSER April 16, 2018
Donald Trump has outlived the “axis of adults” who was supposed to guide and shape his foreign policy. He’s run through two national security advisers, innumerable lawyers and lower-level aides, an attorney general, an array of Cabinet secretaries and, any day now, the second of two White House chiefs of staff. He’s dumped the ideologist who helped elect him and never really clarified what his “America First” campaign slogan was all about anyways.
But since we launched The Global Politico days after his inauguration, Trump has more than followed through on his election pledge to shake up the Washington establishment of both parties when it comes to America’s position in the world. Each week, we’ve watched as he’s reoriented – or tried to – U.S. policy toward everywhere from Iran to North Korea, Russia to our North American neighbors.
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Copyright © 2017 Panoply Media, LLC. All rights reserved
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