The following article by Eli Stokols was posted on the Los Angeles Times website June 7, 2018:
Asked on Monday, President Trump’s 500th day in office, what he considers his top foreign policy achievement, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders quickly replied: “The strengthening of relationships with a number of foreign leaders.” The State Department said the same with a tweet: “After 500 days in office, U.S. leadership is back on the world stage as the result of @POTUS’s policies.”
It’s no surprise that top administration officials have alighted on that claim. The president has been making it at every opportunity — during a rally last week in Nashville, at the U.S. Naval Academy commencement ceremony and in off-the-cuff remarks to White House reporters Friday, just to name the latest audiences. Continue reading “Trump claims U.S. is ‘respected again’ in the world. ‘Preposterous,’ say allies and diplomats”