Perspective: Trump says he knows everything. He’s obviously wrong.
President Trump speaks to journalists at the White House on Tuesday. By Daniel W. Drezner Daniel W. Drezner Bio Follow Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a regular contributor to PostEverything. May 15 at 10:15 AM When it comes to foreign affairs, President Trump is not cursed with the burden of knowledge. This was always pretty clear, but the point has come into sharper focus in the past week.
Despite our nation’s superpower status, such threats from Trump keep leading to more conflict, rather than less. Perhaps, in some cases, more patience is required.Iran and China are not easy portfolios for any commander in chief. Nonetheless, the standoffs with both countries — either of which can easily worsen — were entirely avoidable.
We see this at work in all the conflicts brewing this week. On Iran and Venezuela, Trump appears to be at the mercy of his hawkish national security adviser, John Bolton, who is running point on both policies. Bolton has made some extraordinary threats, including calling out individual allies of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by name on Twitter. None of this has caused the Maduro regime to collapse, surprising Trump repeatedly.
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