Stephen Miller, a senior adviser in the Trump White House who remains very close to the former president, watches as Donald Trump speaks at a White House event in March, 2018. Photograph: Doug Mills/New York Timesat his Mar-a-Lago resort earlier this month, he lavished praise on the Hungarian prime minister as a “fantastic” leader for Europe. The evening entertainment included a “members-only” concert with tribute bands for the Beatles and Rolling Stones.
When Trump first ran for president in 2016, he was the ultimate political outsider – lacking both governing experience and a network of support in Washington and within the Republican Party. The biggest difference from when he first entered politics involves personnel. While Trump felt in 2017 he needed to bring wary members of the Republican elite into his administration, he is now able to draw on a core of experienced aides who have remained fiercely devoted to the former president. At the same time, he also has the backing of a party machinery that has been remade in his image.
“We are living in a different world,” says Michael Beschloss, a presidential historian. “ knows many of such people are alienated by his defence of the, and disgusted about what he says about dictatorship. So he has largely written them off and is going with people who seem to be loyal to him and his current passions.”At the Conservative Political Action Conference last month, Trump signalled what his approach would be if he defeats Biden in November.
In character, his inner circle ranges from the abrasive to the mild-mannered, but what they share is a fierce personal loyalty to Trump. Both they and the former president are more experienced in Washington manoeuvring, and less likely to be thwarted or slowed by career civil servants, mainstream Republican officials, and critics in Congress.
The AFPI’s Center for American Security – where Fleitz is vice-chair – is now the home of two of Trump’s key sounding boards on national security. On the economy, Kevin Hassett, Trump’s former chair of the council of economic advisers, and Russ Vought, the former budget director, are key figures in Trump’s current orbit – though he still speaks to Larry Kudlow, another previous economic aide, and Stephen Moore of the Heritage Foundation, whom he previously tried and failed to appoint to the Federal Reserve board.
On trade, Trump plans to renew his trade wars – floating the idea of introducing a 10 per cent across-the-board tariff on imported goods, a 60 per cent tariff on Chinese goods, as well as a separate levy of 100 per cent on Chinese-made cars coming to the US through Mexico.
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