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Foreign-Policy Decision Making

Calvin Trillin

July 2, 2019

President Donald Trump speaks after signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on June 25, 2019.(AP Photo / Evan Vucci)

Conflicting views are heard. The mood is tense. Around the president advisers cluster. But at the end he sticks to his approach— His formula of ignorance plus bluster.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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