In his second term, Trump will be free to make over the military and reshape foreign policy to his liking
By
Jamie McIntyre
November 8, 2024 4:40 am
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One of the things President-elect Donald Trump’s second national security adviser liked about the neophyte president when they first met in 2017 during Trump’s first term was the commander in chief’s penchant for breaking things, especially regarding foreign policy.
“Trump’s disruptive nature could be advantageous. Many preexisting policies needed to be disrupted,” now-retired Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster wrote in his memoir, At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House. “But his impoliteness and capriciousness, in tweets or off-the-cuff comments to the press, were often counterproductive.”
“Trump’s disruptive nature created opportunity,” McMaster noted, “while his character and prejudices rendered him unable to take advantage of it.”
Given the choice between rigorous analysis and his innate instincts, Trump prefers to go with his gut.
He’s been that way his entire life, and it’s what he credits for much of his success.
“Instinct is far more important than any other ingredient,” Trump told Watergate reporters Woodward and Bernstein in 1989 as a New York real estate mogul. “The worst deals I’ve made have been deals where I didn’t follow my instinct. The best deals I’ve made have been deals where I followed my instinct and wouldn’t listen to all of the people that said, ‘There’s no way it works.’”
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