Tag: America’s standing in the world

‘America First’ is a hard sell in Davos

The following article by Ishaan Tharoor was posted on the Washington Post website January 25, 2018:

President Trump’s hotly anticipated speech may have been two days away, but his administration was already out in force in Davos on Wednesday. Throughout the day, various U.S. officials and Republican politicians could be seen yucking it up with the globalist elites so reviled by Trump on the campaign trail.

At a panel, Energy Secretary Rick Perry furrowed brows when he equated the export of oil to the export of “freedom.” In the afternoon, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) of the hard-right Freedom Caucus waited patiently in line for a session where he was not guaranteed access. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, appeared somewhat lost amid the larger entourages of world leaders and high-flying business executives. Continue reading “‘America First’ is a hard sell in Davos”

Australian reporter tears into Trump’s performance at G-20

The following article by Dylan Stableford was posted on the Yahoo News site:

President Trump declared his trip to the G-20 summit a “great success.” Chris Uhlmann, the political editor for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, saw it a bit differently.

“We learned that Donald Trump has pressed fast-forward on the decline of the United States as a global leader,” Uhlmann said on air in a segment that has gone viral. “He managed to isolate his nation, to confuse and alienate his allies, and to diminish America.”

Uhlmann described Trump as “an uneasy, lonely, awkward figure” at the gathering of world leaders in Hamburg, Germany. Continue reading “Australian reporter tears into Trump’s performance at G-20”