A Nuance Change in the Trump Doctrine

We are now at Day 83 in Caligula Lite’s presidency. Nothing he talked about with his supporters has come to fruition so far except for Mitch McConnell nuking Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, while Generals Mattis and McMaster remind us gently they’re running this country, and the guy heading the Dept of Twitter is a bit of con artist and won’t be realigning Nato and creating his own New World Order.

Nothing Trump talked about with his aluminum eared-plated Trekkies has come to pass—and to that we can all say…Thank God except for maybe the infrastructure bill. Some infrastructure would be nice.

No wall. No Mexicans paying for it. No draconian trade treaties. No repeal of Obamacare. No tax reform overhaul favoring the rich. No massive deregulations except for Scott Pruitt ignoring climate change as the head of EPA (that’s pretty big actually). No new world order alliance with Putin. No infrastructure program like that of FDR’s WPA. No job explosion given only 98,000 jobs were created in March. No Muslim ban. And, hopefully no ground troops in Syria.

But I think the message is kind of clear. This Trumpster we now see is nothing like the deplorable rogue we saw leading chants of ‘Build the Wall’ and ‘Lock Her Up.’ This is not the same dude who brought Michael Flynn, Steven Bannon, and Kellyanne Conway to the White House.

Whoever this Trump is in relation to the rogue huckster we had been watching is for the time being gone. Which is a good thing if only this can sustain itself and Caligula Jr. doesn’t revert do his fourth grade level tweeting and Dennis the Menace antics.

McConnell is the domestic policy president, while Gen. Mattis is the foreign policy prez. Trump is the Entertainment Tonight president and it fits his wheelhouse.

So what is the Trump Doctrine so far for the historical types who dwell on shit like this? How does it differ from Clinton, W, and Obama?

To me…the Trump Doctrine appears to have morphed into a nuanced doing of the exact polar opposite of all those things he said he would do for his aluminum ear-plated Trekkies during the campaign rallies in places where angry white people lashed back at globalization because Trumpster was the anti-globalization cheerleader or liar depending on your semantics.

Some presidents morph into FDR, TR, or Lincoln. But not Donald Trump. He’s morphed into George Costanza—and the thing is given what he looked like with Bannon, Flynn, Manafort, Miller, Conway, and all that Mercer family money–I’m good with the Constanza Doctrine. I’m completely good with it given the alternative.

It took me 83 days to figure out who Donald Trump really is…he’s George Costanza is who he is.