How Trump's foreign policy threatens to make America

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How Trump's foreign policy threatens to make America weak again

The president talks a tough game-but he has alienated allies. And the more he tries to assert US leadership, the less of a leadership role he plays.

Donald Trump does not travel well. At his first major summit, he was too tired to walk through the Sicilian streets with the other G7 leaders, and took to his golf cart. He literally pushed aside the prime minister of a small European country to stand at the head of the pack. He found himself in a minority of one over the Paris climate accord, rejecting arguments that he was ceding world leadership to China. And he was irritated by all the tough-guy talk from France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, who boasted to a French newspaper that his white-knuckle handshake with Trump was “a moment of truth”.
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