Description: The Madman Theory by Jim Sciutto From praising dictators to alienating allies, Trump has made chaos his calling card. Has 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 has employed his own "madman theory," sometimes intentionally and sometimes not. Trump praises Kim Jong-un and their "love notes," admires and flatters Vladimir Putin, and gives a greenlight to Recep Tayyip Erdogan to invade Syria. Meanwhile, he attacks US institutions and officials, ignores his own advisors, and turns his back on US allies from Canada and Mexico to NATO to Ukraine to the Kurds at war with ISIS. Trump is willing to make the nations most sensitive and consequential decisions while often ignoring the best information and intelligence available to him. He continually catches the world off guard, but is it working? In The Madman Theory, Jim Sciutto shows how Trumps supporters assume he has a strategy for long-term success - that he is somehow playing three-dimensional chess. Now that we are four years into his presidency, we can see his unpredictable focus on short-term headlines has in fact lead to predictably mediocre results in the short and long run. Trumps foreign policy has undermined American values and national security interests, while hurting allies who have been on our side for decades, leaving them isolated and vulnerable without American support. Meanwhile, he comforts and emboldens our enemies. The White Houses revolving door of staff demonstrates that Trump has no real plan; all serious policymakers--and those who would be a check on his most destructive impulses--have been exiled or jumped ship.Sciutto has interviewed a wide swath of current and former administration officials to assemble the first comprehensive portrait of the impact of Trumps erratic foreign policy. Smart, authoritative, and compelling, The Madman Theory is the definitive take on Trumps calamitous legacy around the globe, showing how his proclivity for chaos is creating a world which is more unstable, violent, and impoverished than it was before. FORMAT Compact Disc LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Jim Sciutto is CNNs chief national security correspondent and anchor of CNN Newsroom. After more than two decades as a foreign correspondent stationed in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, he returned to Washington to cover the Defense Department, the State Department, and intelligence agencies for CNN. His work has earned him Emmy Awards, the George Polk Award, the Edward R. Murrow award, and the Merriman Smith Memorial Award for excellence in presidential coverage. A graduate of Yale and a Fulbright Fellow, he lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Gloria Riviera, who is a crisis communications professional and journalist for ABC News, and their three children. Details ISBN1094178586 Author Jim Sciutto Short Title World War Trump Language English Year 2020 ISBN-10 1094178586 ISBN-13 9781094178585 Format Compact Disc Playing time 504 Publisher HarperCollins Publication Date 2020-08-11 Imprint HarperCollins Narrator Jim Sciutto Subtitle Trump Takes on the World Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:158570850;
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