A Trump doctrine in foreign policy? He just made it clearer than ever [Video]

In one notable speech, on one memorable trip, we saw the clearest ever outline of what one might call the Trump Doctrine in foreign policy.

The current U.S. president doesn’t tend to indulge in grand theory talk, but he effectively laid one out in Saudi Arabia.

It might be summed up as: less moralizing, more money. 

In other words, the pursuit of prosperity takes precedence over lofty rhetoric about democracy. This, in his telling, is a recipe for peace and stability.

Tuesday’s speech in Riyadh was not, of course, the speech the last Republican president, George W. Bush, would have given for the first overseas trip of a presidential term.

Nor was it the speech Barack Obama gave in his first presidential address to the Arab world, when he spoke at length about democracy to university students in Cairo.