Trump doctrine taking shape

Resident Donald Trump addressed a joint session of the US Congress on March 4 in the longest such session in modern American presidency.

- Harsh V Pant Vivek Mishra

While it marked just six weeks of his second term, his address strongly indicated a vastly different policy contour in the works — doubling down on drastic changes both within the Beltway bureaucracy and outside in foreign policy by shaking America's relations with the world. The fracture that the American polity today signifies was on display in the US Congress when most Democrats refused to either greet the president or stand in ovation to Trump's speech highlights. Perhaps the most dramatic moment came when representative Al Green of Texas jeered at Trump that he has no mandate to cut Medicaid.