Trump’s Foreign Policy Doctrine: ‘We’re America, Bitch’

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pauses during his campaign speech to hug the American flag Saturday, June 11, 2016, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
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Amid the international upheaval after the G-7 summit, an unnamed senior White House official summed up the Trumpian foreign policy doctrine: “We’re America, bitch.”

According to a Monday Atlantic report, a “senior White House official with direct access to the president and his thinking” explained: “Obama apologized to everyone for everything. He felt bad about everything.” The official said that Trump “doesn’t feel like he has to apologize for anything America does.”

Another distillation of Trump’s doctrine came from a senior national security official: “permanent destabilization creates American advantage,” the official said, arguing that leaving everyone else on shaky ground makes America the sole strong power. 

A senior administration official contributed “no friends, no enemies,” a quip that encapsulates Trump’s distaste for permanent alliances in favor of shifting relationships based on his moods and impulses.

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  1. No, Obama did not apologize to everybody. That is a lie. The top export of the WH today is lies, black as coal, unceasing, lies.

  2. Avatar for dont dont says:

    We are powerful BECAUSE of our friends and alliances.

  3. Another distillation of Trump’s doctrine came from a senior national security official: “permanent destabilization creates American advantage,” the official said, arguing that leaving everyone else on shaky ground makes America the sole strong power.

    These guys are such morons.

    A senior administration official contributed “no friends, no enemies,” a quip that encapsulates Trump’s distaste for permanent alliances in favor of shifting relationships based on his moods and impulses.

    If he ever wants to do anything, he’ll need friends of which he’s dangerously short on.

  4. “we’re America, bitch.”

    No surprise this is Trump mantra. Cadet Bone spurs, Pompeo, many others have made clear this is their arrogant Ugly American policy. The world and even US citizens should bow down before them.

  5. Idiocy, repeated. Ignorance and idiocy. Bigotry, ignorance and idiocy. Selfishness, bigotry, ignorance and idiocy. Cupidity, bigotry, ignorance and idiocy. I could go on.

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