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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Damn straight!
I suggest reading the complete article and understand that, as Scott Adams says, there are two movies playing at the same time. On one side are the liberals, aghast at President Trump's behavior and for them, every word here is true and it is all bad. On the other hand are Trump's supporters who can also read this article and cheerfully exclaim, "This is the man we voted for!"
I’d almost like to see Chapelle come up with a “Black Trump” character, like “Black Bush”.
I LOVE IT..We’re America take it or leave it” I remember a time where many on the left were about America First, and that we should take care of our OWN people and worry less about the rest of the world..but that left is now gone, now they are Commies who despise America and want her destroyed
Hussein and the Uniparty want America to be the Merkel’s b*tch.
Let 'em squeal, but they'd better not mess with us.
Ahhhhh, no, pajamaboy.
(BSD is Big Swinging D***)
I don’t care who you are, groveling around on your knees won’t get you anywhere...I learned THAT on the playground!
So did most normal people
Tired of unequal trade. Tired of illegal immigration. Tired of defending our weak Allies. Tired of high taxes. Tired of Shiite public education. I could go on.
Tired of unequal trade. Tired of illegal immigration. Tired of defending our weak Allies. Tired of high taxes. Tired of Shiite public education. I could go on.
Can I get a ‘Hell Yeah!’?
I mean.... it’s not wrong is it?
“I don’t approve or agree with the phrase, but what is clear is that we are back, no more apologies, and you’d better respect us.”
We don’t need to be liked, but we do need to be respected, and there’s the difference between liberals and conservatives. Liberals want to be liked. Conservatives want to be respected.
If you have any complaints, ask DeNiro.
Ditto!
Anonymous source = lie.
After he hit the iceberg, not many people gave a crap what the captain of the Titanic thought they should do next.
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