I have written about the Trump Doctrine before. As we start to experience the effects of his approach to being President in his second term, it might be a good idea to review just what Trump’s approach as President is.
During Trump 1.0, I recall looking for some explanation about what the “experts” thought Trump’s approach to governance was. This was about six months after 1/20/2017. I entered the search term “Trump Doctrine” into Google. The first two pages of returns seemed to indicate that there was no such thing as a Trump Doctrine. Expert after expert claimed that Trump had no real approach to governance or foreign policy.
When I went to a different search engine about half of the returns talked about the Trump Doctrine. While I may have previously been aware that different search engines produced somewhat different results, this exercise in 2017 really opened my eyes to the potential bias in search engine results. Clearly Google was supporting the idea that Trump was an out-of-control President who couldn’t be trusted in the highest office of the land. Basically what Google was saying was that PDJT had no plan for how to govern.
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