Trump Is Destroying His Own Administration's Policies
The Cabinet and National Security Council are developing sensible strategies. But they don’t survive contact with the president.
Remember the iconic New Yorker cover with Manhattan as the towering center of the world, all else minuscule, nothing between the Atlantic and Pacific coastal cities? Americans and the world are once again getting a lesson in relative geography. Because no distance seems as large as that between the national-security office buildings of the American government and the White House in the Trump administration.
If one only to the admirable secretary of defense, or most of the by the secretary of
