The Trump Doctrine
It’s lazy, but foreign policy writers now have to assign a “doctrine” to every president. Well, we have the Trump Doctrine, fully laid out in this profile of Rex Tillerson’s utterly disastrous tenure in the State Department.
And as Tillerson has traveled the globe, Trump believes his top diplomat often seems more concerned with what the world thinks of the United States than with tending to the president’s personal image.
Everything else is details. Trump wants to blow up the world because MAGA, Tillerson is incompetent and evil, but not insane. That makes him insufficiently loyal, the only quality Trump cares about among his people, especially when Tillerson wants to talk to North Korea instead of tweeting at them or realizing that the Iran nuclear deal is actually a good thing, or at least something that should continue for now.