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Senior White House Official Defines the Trump Doctrine: ‘We’re America, Bitch’
The Atlantic ^ | 06/11/2018 | Jeffrey Goldberg

Posted on 06/11/2018 12:41:26 PM PDT by Drew68

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The best distillation of the Trump Doctrine I heard, though, came from a senior White House official with direct access to the president and his thinking. I was talking to this person several weeks ago, and I said, by way of introduction, that I thought it might perhaps be too early to discern a definitive Trump Doctrine.

“No,” the official said. “There’s definitely a Trump Doctrine.”

“What is it?” I asked. Here is the answer I received:

“The Trump Doctrine is ‘We’re America, Bitch.’ That’s the Trump Doctrine.”

It struck me almost immediately that this was the most acute, and attitudinally honest, description of the manner in which members of Trump’s team, and Trump himself, understand their role in the world.

I asked this official to explain the idea. “Obama apologized to everyone for everything. He felt bad about everything.” President Trump, this official said, “doesn’t feel like he has to apologize for anything America does.” I later asked another senior official, one who rendered the doctrine not as “We’re America, Bitch” but as “We’re America, Bitches,” whether he was aware of the 2004 movie Team America: World Police, whose theme song was “America, F*** Yeah!”

“Of course,” he said, laughing. “The president believes that we’re America, and people can take it or leave it.”

“We’re America, Bitch” is not only a characterologically accurate collective self-appraisal—the gangster fronting, the casual misogyny, the insupportable confidence—but it is also perfectly Rorschachian. To Trump’s followers, “We’re America, Bitch” could be understood as a middle finger directed at a cold and unfair world, one that no longer respects American power and privilege. To much of the world, however, and certainly to most practitioners of foreign and national-security policy, “We’re America, Bitch” would be understood as self-isolating, and self-sabotaging.

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To: Bodleian_Girl

Old Roman saying: “Let them hate us, as long as they fear us.”


101 posted on 06/11/2018 6:16:57 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: elcid1970

I’m in.


102 posted on 06/11/2018 8:27:44 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl
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To: Drew68

Slingin’ d### and handing out firecrackers.

Only a few will get this reference.


103 posted on 06/12/2018 5:37:42 AM PDT by SirLurkedalot (10/10/51-7/7/16 RIP Dad, I'll be missing you until I cross over to Eternity)
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To: papertyger

More gentle, and the message is delivered not massaged into nothing!


104 posted on 06/12/2018 6:38:46 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Trump does what is good for Americans. Then, the world gets their panties in a knot! Too bad!)
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To: dead
Excellent!


105 posted on 06/12/2018 6:46:40 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Trump does what is good for Americans. Then, the world gets their panties in a knot! Too bad!)
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To: dead
Excellent!


106 posted on 06/12/2018 6:47:13 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Trump does what is good for Americans. Then, the world gets their panties in a knot! Too bad!)
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To: Drew68

lol......made my day. Best President ever!


107 posted on 06/12/2018 10:25:19 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: Drew68
Image result for BITCH BREAKING BAD

108 posted on 06/12/2018 10:31:35 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks Drew68.

109 posted on 06/13/2018 12:16:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Grampa Dave

the hat’s a nice touch, but Bolton’s got that “can’t believe you said that” look on his face. :^)


110 posted on 06/13/2018 8:48:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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