Trump's Latest String Of Flip-Flops Won't Hurt Him (At Least For Now)
President Trump is already well-known for not sticking to his guns. But his appeal has been more visceral than policy-based anyway, as one political science professor explains.
by Danielle Kurtzleben
Apr 13, 2017
4 minutes
If George W. Bush was the decider, consider Donald Trump the un-decider. This week, the current president abandoned a string of his best-known policy positions over a matter of days.
- At a press conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg: "The secretary general and I had a productive discussion about what more NATO can do in the fight against terrorism. I complained about that a long time ago and they made a change, and now they do fight terrorism. I said it was obsolete. It's no longer obsolete." (On March 22: "NATO, obsolete, because it doesn't cover terrorism" — a claim that is untrue.)
- On China, in a interview: "They're not currency manipulators." (: "You know, when you talk about, when you talk about currency manipulation, when you talk
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