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MSNBC’s Katy Tur is notably not a fan of President Trump and during Monday’s MTP Daily, where she was filling-in for Chuck Todd, she took numerous swipes at the commander-in-chief. “There are so many questions about what exactly Donald Trump’s foreign policy is. What does the Trump doctrine look like? … There's a lot of confusion about it,” she told Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations, “And the flip-flops that we're seeing, are they rooted in pragmatism or are they rooted in ignorance?”
Haass seemed to be taken aback by Tur’s personal smear of the President as he tried to explain to her why it wasn’t necessary. “One, I think is, it’s way premature to for anyone to talk about a Trump doctrine,” he explained, noting that Trump hadn’t even been president for 100 days, “And doctrines are usually conferred from the outside on policies that are big and lasting. It is simply premature to be thinking about that.”
He admitted that Trump’s foreign policy and statements have been inconsistent, but recalled that Trump had talked about wanting to keep other countries ‘off balance.’ He also argued that such an attitude in the North Korea situation may be helpful since the U.S. policy over the last few presidencies has led to this “crisis,” according to Haass. “And I would argue that even if Hillary Clinton were the president, the United States would be signaling that what North Korea is about to achieve would be intolerable,” he added.
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