Trump's flipflop brings to mind "doublethink" in Orwell's dystopian 1984. Quoting or paraphrasing Orwell, rightwing George Mason University explains doublethink as "the act of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct" [sound familiar?] "... to hold simultaneously two opinions ... knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them" ... and ... "to repudiate morality while laying claim to it".
Trump's flipflop brings to mind "doublethink" in Orwell's dystopian 1984. Quoting or paraphrasing Orwell, rightwing George Mason University explains doublethink as "the act of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct" [sound familiar?] "... to hold simultaneously two opinions ... knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them" ... and ... "to repudiate morality while laying claim to it".