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The Madman Theory - Trump Takes On the World (Hardcover)
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The Madman Theory - Trump Takes On the World (Hardcover)
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From praising dictators to alienating allies, Trump made chaos his
calling card. But four years into his administration, had his
strategy caused more problems than it solved? Richard Nixon tried
it first. Hoping to make communist bloc countries uneasy and thus
unstable, Nixon let them think he was just crazy enough to nuke
them. He called this "the madman theory." Nearly half a century
later, President Trump employed his own "madman theory," sometimes
intentionally and sometimes not. Trump praised Kim Jong-un and
their "love notes," admired and flattered Vladimir Putin, and gave
a greenlight to Recep Tayyip Erdogan to invade Syria. Meanwhile, he
attacked US institutions and officials, ignored his own advisors,
and turned his back on US allies from Canada and Mexico to NATO to
Ukraine to the Kurds at war with ISIS. Trump was willing to make
the nation's most sensitive and consequential decisions while often
ignoring the best information and intelligence available to him. He
continually caught the world off guard, but did it work? In The
Madman Theory, Jim Sciutto showed how Trump's supporters assumed he
had a strategy for long-term success - that he somehow played
three-dimensional chess. Four years into Trump's presidency, it was
clear his unpredictable focus on short-term headlines did in fact
lead to predictably mediocre results in the short and long run.
Trump's foreign policy undermined American values and national
security interests, while hurting allies who had been on our side
for decades, leaving them isolated and vulnerable without American
support. Meanwhile, Trump had comforted and emboldened our enemies.
The White House's revolving door of staff demonstrated that Trump
had no real plan; all serious policymakers-and those who would be a
check on his most destructive impulses-were exiled or jumped ship.
Sciutto interviewed a wide swath of then-current and former
administration officials to assemble the first comprehensive
portrait of the impact of Trump's erratic foreign policy. Smart,
authoritative, and compelling, The Madman Theory is the definitive
take on Trump's calamitous legacy around the globe, showing how his
proclivity for chaos was creating a world which was more unstable,
violent, and impoverished than it had been before.
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