Is Trump Now Bad Cop or Good Cop?
Victor Davis Hanson
Posted: May 03, 2018 12:01 AM
During his first 15 months as president, Donald Trump has postured as the bad cop.
He railed about NATO members welching on their promised contributions to the alliance. Trump rhetorically reduced North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to "short and fat" and "rocket man." He ordered the dropping of a huge bomb on the Taliban and twice hit Syrian chemical weapons sites. He talked of trade wars and hitting back at China.
Through all the bombast and follow-ups, Trump's supposedly more sober and judicious appointees -- especially former National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, along with Defense Secretary James Mattis -- played good cops against the outnumbered lone-wolf Trump.
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