Was President Trump's Twitter-Fueled Foreign Policy Not As Bad As Some Might Think?

David Gordon and Michael O'Hanlon, USA Today: President Trump's Twitter-fueled foreign policy: Not as bad as you might think.

Yes, Trump is a maverick and populist. But thanks to him, 2017 witnessed less of a dramatic departure from the norm in foreign policy than has been alleged.

With each new barrage of foreign policy tweets — most recently targeting Iran and North Korea and the Palestinians and Pakistan, President Trump cements the idea that he is turning American foreign policy on its head, shattering 70 years of tradition and consensus. But that analysis is more wrong than right. By focusing on Trumpian rhetoric, bombast and late-night digital tirades, Trump’s critics are missing the surprising resilience and stability of American foreign policy and undermining critiques of the president’s potentially more important foreign policy mistakes.

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WNU Editor: It is too early to judge President Trump's foreign policy decisions of 2017. But it did not turn as bad as many had predicted in 2017 .... Trump’s Foreign Policy Is A Disaster (Philip Rotner, Huffington Post).