'Trumpism won't survive': Ex-Trump insider flags death knell for president's ideology

Donald Trump may be enjoying a lot of consolidated power across branches of government, but he doesn't have a lasting political legacy, according to a former member of the president's first administration.

Karen Tumulty, chief political correspondent for the Washington Post, published a piece Sunday called, Trump swerves and swaggers on the world stage. In the article, she argues, "What remains largely missing for the president are the kind of foundational principles that historians might someday refer to as a 'Trump doctrine.'"

Noting that "the populist and nationalist catchphrase that Trump and his supporters use is 'America First,'" Tumulty clarified, "What it means, however, is whatever he wants it to."

After asking of Trump's "swerving" moves, "So how do all these moves add up? Or do they?" the analyst turns to John Bolton, who recently saw his home raided by the Trump administration.

“I don’t think there’s a Trump doctrine. I don’t think he has a philosophy. I don’t think he does grand strategy. I don’t even think he does policy as that term is conventionally understood in Washington,” said Bolton, who was the U.N. ambassador under George W. Bush and national security adviser during Trump’s first term. “There isn’t any Trumpism that’s going to survive. It’s all about his interest and what he wants.”

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