Welcome to Home & Away. What a week. Elon Musk, the “Special Government Employee,” is no longer special, at least in the opinion of the occupant of the Oval Office. That Musk is no longer heading up DOGE is the least of it. Musk has broken with the man who only four months ago he professed to love “
It is sad reading your column and seeing the way the Trump administration has taken the country away from its world leadership roots. Today is June 6, D-day, when America and its allies fought to free Europe from Nazis. It was a shared effort, but there was no doubt of American leadership. We saw similar leadership when President Biden rallied Europe to come to the aid of Ukraine, in its fight for freedom against Russian aggression. Now the Trump administration seems done with Ukraine. Yesterday in the Oval Office, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, reminded President Trump of the allied effort on D-day and urged the president to continue to fight for Ukraine freedom. President Trump appeared disinterested. He seemed puzzled by the mention of D-day.
While I don’t disagree that the emerging “Trump Doctrine” is focused on business, I think you’re missing a key component - how he can personally enrich himself and his family through these business arrangements. Not just during his term, but for long after. The apparent focus on US businesses is only a veneer - it always him to trumpet big announcements that focus the attention on him, without any real care whether the announced business deals (excluding his own) ever come to fruition - which many will not. Other countries know that all they need to do is flatter Trump and make grand promises about investing in the US, but they don’t have to follow through.
And the Trump regime does not just look the other way, its stooges are promoting unlawfully extreme rightwing and neonazi movements in Europe, claiming that European laws and norms against fascist fake news and propaganda are suppressing free speech. But Europe is not doing that; it has rules against amplifying racist falsehoods and nazi agitprop, for good reason.
Oy. Who voted for this and how does it help Americans? I do not see it as a sustainable doctrine. It will disappear as capitalists begin to fail, and they will. Soaking the middle class into oblivion has never worked. We are weaker as a nation and our corruption will be our tag line. Not our leadership. His "doctrine" has damaged us well into the next generation. When all is said and done all of the topics brought forward by MAGA as the reason for Trumps win will only become magnified in the daily life of Americans. Sad.
Remember when DJT gave the commencement to the 2025 West Point cadets and then left early without shaking their hands; thereby busting another long held tradition that every president before him has gladly done?
Wouldn't it be great if Presidents Clinton, Bush and Biden got together and shook each 2025 graduating cadets’ hand. All 1,002 hands!!!
Since it's unrealistic for all those graduates to now gather in the same place, perhaps the three of them could all jump on the same plane and travel to them. Either this Saturday when POTUS celebrates his 9th birthday or Independence Day July 4 would be a great time to initiate such a grand gesture and show our fighting men and women just how much we care!
There can be no doctrine because Trump is not an autonomous actor; he is guided by Russia and can't speak without clearance, as we saw while he waited for Putin's guidance on Ukraine. His other pathological billionaire controllers seek the dismemberment of US and EU governance, and the installation of global Putinist technofuedalism.
It is sad reading your column and seeing the way the Trump administration has taken the country away from its world leadership roots. Today is June 6, D-day, when America and its allies fought to free Europe from Nazis. It was a shared effort, but there was no doubt of American leadership. We saw similar leadership when President Biden rallied Europe to come to the aid of Ukraine, in its fight for freedom against Russian aggression. Now the Trump administration seems done with Ukraine. Yesterday in the Oval Office, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, reminded President Trump of the allied effort on D-day and urged the president to continue to fight for Ukraine freedom. President Trump appeared disinterested. He seemed puzzled by the mention of D-day.
While I don’t disagree that the emerging “Trump Doctrine” is focused on business, I think you’re missing a key component - how he can personally enrich himself and his family through these business arrangements. Not just during his term, but for long after. The apparent focus on US businesses is only a veneer - it always him to trumpet big announcements that focus the attention on him, without any real care whether the announced business deals (excluding his own) ever come to fruition - which many will not. Other countries know that all they need to do is flatter Trump and make grand promises about investing in the US, but they don’t have to follow through.
And the Trump regime does not just look the other way, its stooges are promoting unlawfully extreme rightwing and neonazi movements in Europe, claiming that European laws and norms against fascist fake news and propaganda are suppressing free speech. But Europe is not doing that; it has rules against amplifying racist falsehoods and nazi agitprop, for good reason.
Oy. Who voted for this and how does it help Americans? I do not see it as a sustainable doctrine. It will disappear as capitalists begin to fail, and they will. Soaking the middle class into oblivion has never worked. We are weaker as a nation and our corruption will be our tag line. Not our leadership. His "doctrine" has damaged us well into the next generation. When all is said and done all of the topics brought forward by MAGA as the reason for Trumps win will only become magnified in the daily life of Americans. Sad.
Remember when DJT gave the commencement to the 2025 West Point cadets and then left early without shaking their hands; thereby busting another long held tradition that every president before him has gladly done?
Wouldn't it be great if Presidents Clinton, Bush and Biden got together and shook each 2025 graduating cadets’ hand. All 1,002 hands!!!
Since it's unrealistic for all those graduates to now gather in the same place, perhaps the three of them could all jump on the same plane and travel to them. Either this Saturday when POTUS celebrates his 9th birthday or Independence Day July 4 would be a great time to initiate such a grand gesture and show our fighting men and women just how much we care!
I so appreciate your perspective. Thank you!
Affair or bank robbery? Or both? Bonnie & Clyde syndrome with about 25 million cheerleaders.
There can be no doctrine because Trump is not an autonomous actor; he is guided by Russia and can't speak without clearance, as we saw while he waited for Putin's guidance on Ukraine. His other pathological billionaire controllers seek the dismemberment of US and EU governance, and the installation of global Putinist technofuedalism.
great-just a note on the changing face of war -in the Falklands war,a $200,000 missile took out a British warship-now a $2000 drone might do it
Excellent doctrine encapsulation of modern day presidencies and the dangers of one anything but doctinaire.
I believe George Kennan something along the lines of: "America should never go to war over 'values'. It would perpetually be at war...."