Trump's continuous shifting of Eco-Political positions flummox world leaders

Political scientists say that there is a method in his madness of global diplomacy

- BY T N ASHOK

The US President Donald Trump has flummoxed political leaders all over the world including his buddies as also leaders of Russia, India, China and Israel by constantly shifting his political stance day to day.

The unpredictable nature of a man who keeps shifting his stance according to his whims, hour to hour puts political opponents on the nerves edge on what's coming next, a sense of fear, sometimes awe, and sometimes sheer nonsense. Political scientists say this is called the “Mad Man Theory”.

It's a carefully crafted political strategy where you make the opponents think you are a Mad Man and unpredictable, while being sane, and fooling others into disbelief with your erratic behaviour that they don't know where they stand or don't know what counter strategies they need to adopt. No clue absolutely about a man on what he will do next he says one thing on Monday, says another thing exactly opposite on Tuesday.

Trump has shown since his campaign speeches and rhetoric that he did exactly the opposite of what he intended to do, though there is some consistency in his militant gestures and how he executes it to achieve his ends. At least on deportations he has been consistent but not on bringing down prices and making the economy strong and stable, no way, not with deficits of $3.4 trillion and debts of $5 trillion over a 10-year period with his Big Beautiful Bill through the reconciliation process.

Day one: He said he would end the Gaza war and the Ukraine conflict. Both are still raging. He imposed tariffs like the “Mad Man theory” of 240% tariffs on China and shortly thereafter he announced he had successful talks with the Chinese leader Xi Jinping and closed the tariff issue at 55% for Chinese goods entering the USA and 10% for US goods entering China.