“Lebanon is on the front lines in the fight against isis, Al Qaeda, and Hezbollah,” President Trump pronounced, during an appearance with Lebanon’s Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, in July.Photograph by Carlos Barria / Reuters
Robin Wright, New Yorker: Why Is Donald Trump Still So Horribly Witless About the World?
Max Boot, a lifelong conservative who advised three Republican Presidential candidates on foreign policy, keeps a folder labelled “Trump Stupidity File” on his computer. It’s next to his “Trump Lies” file. “Not sure which is larger at this point,” he told me this week. “It’s neck-and-neck.”
Six months into the Trump era, foreign-policy officials from eight past Administrations told me they are aghast that the President is still so witless about the world. “He seems as clueless today as he was on January 20th,” Boot, who is now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, said. Trump’s painful public gaffes, they warn, indicate that he’s not reading, retaining, or listening to his Presidential briefings. And the newbie excuse no longer flies.
“Trump has an appalling ignorance of the current world, of history, of previous American engagement, of what former Presidents thought and did,” Geoffrey Kemp, who worked at the Pentagon during the Ford Administration and at the National Security Council during the Reagan Administration, reflected. “He has an almost studious rejection of the type of in-depth knowledge that virtually all of his predecessors eventually gained or had views on.”
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WNU Editor: There is a lot to criticise about President Trump .... but Robin Wright should not quote people like Max Boot and Michael Hayden to make her case. Both men supported the invasion of Iraq and nation building in Afghanistan .... probably two of the worst foreign policy decisions made in modern times. And they are calling President Trump"witless"?!?!?!
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