of the world goes about its business without us. the rest of the world also increasingly they all have files. it s called how we look after ourselves because we can no longer count on the united states. we re setting in motion a world where u.s. influence is down and countries take matters into their own hands. it s a more dangerous world. that s going to be the structural result. if this continues for another three and a half years. one thing about the speeches. the one good moment of the last three days was in the afghanistan speech. i thought the basic policy was right. we re going to stay there. our goal is not to change afghanistan. it s essentially not the lose, not to see it become a terrorist haven. what the president said i ve changed my mind. unless i m missing something, that was the first time as president where he s basically said i ve learned something. i ve now come to a position i wasn t comfortable with during the campaign. but here s where i am now and
script at that rally and it takes him become to campaign and fmt it was military members where he s announcing a policy for afghanistan. they f they had n and in his private time mistaken. he s clearly someone who sits and and thinks about who s given him, in ands that when he feels free to unleash. marc n right now again, it
has done for the last six months and allies trying to figure out what can they work with america on now or not. and they don t trust what comes out of the president s mouth to reflect what s going to happen in a week s time. just as we don t. what he says on monday to germany or britain or france might not be what he says next wednesday to britain and france. that s the problem allies are dealing with. there no longevity in the message out of the white house. the substance monday night was deadly serious. sending more troops to afghanistan. north korea is still in the background. he threw out in phoenix just sort of an off the cuff remark, we ll probably terminate nafta. that sent a lot of people saying wait? whether or not he meant that or that was prepared is unclear. how do you manage if you re looking from the world and that s what the perspective you have, how do you manage this president? well, the answer is the rest
one of the pieces inside the new issue is titled trump tries presidential before reverting to old habits . michael, it s something we ve been talking about this morning. we played clips at the beginning of the show showing the speeches from monday on afghanistan and then to phoenix and then to reno. different tone. one was a campaign style rally. but how can you be both if you re the president of the united states? how do you pull that off? i think that s something that the white house is trying to figure out. we had a similar situation in the late summer of 2016 when the president when the then candidate trump began to start giving policy addresses reading more off a teleprompter. at one point he apologized for things he d said before. similarly at the urging of his staff saying to get back on track you re going to have to do that. i think what s happening here is that the white house, the people around the president, even the president himself realizes things are not going well,
information, that, a very thought out well-laid out process. but so to dr. jekl and mr. hide, you see it on one issue, and on another issue like transgender military service members, it comes out of nowhere on a tweet. there s a lot of grading on a curve when donald trump makes one decent speech on monday about afghanistan, you have people online and people on television saying well, that was presidential. that was a good speech. he kind of did what presidents are supposed to do and then dips back to who he is on tuesday night in phoenix. it s not unprecedented for presidents to have different speeds. there are presidents who have conversational speeds and teleprompter speeds. what s striking is how you don t know what you re going to get on a given day. it s a whirlwind. the other thing is just the volume of trump. we are in a recess period. congress is not back until next week. this is a time to sort of take