President-elect Donald Trump's policy platform continues to evolve
and change dramatically as he prepares to be sworn into office, making a
complete and detailed understanding of his governing agenda difficult
to discern.
In the two months since being elected, Trump has taken 15 new policy stances on nine different issues.
Call it the post-platform era: the president-elect ran and won a campaign in which he took 141 distinct policy position on 23 issues over the course of 511 days.
Trump defended this as being "flexible" and unpredictable, something he
argued the country needs more of to better represent itself on the
world stage. His supporters championed him as a refreshing break from
politicians with carefully-calculated agendas and voting records to back
them up, while his detractors argued this was a sign of wildly
unprepared and unserious candidate.
In order to better understand the
president-elect, we'll track Trump's new policy pronouncements from
Election Day forward, along with any potential changes and explanations
he offers for such change.
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