I agree..... he is threatening the allies of the US ..... making them FORMER allies.
Real smart, for a country already hated by 200 countries..... lets make the last 30 of them hate us too! ....... SMFH
A good read here:
Donald Trump is trying to taunt close allies like Canada, Mexico and Denmark, but this is creating both outrage and distrust of the United States from the rest of the world.
Donald Trump has both imposed a 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods and is threatening Denmark with military force to take over Greenland.
Trade wars and military threats against allies.
US President Donald Trump has not been on the sidelines since his inauguration on January 20.
The man in the world's most powerful office has fallen out with a number of Western leaders in record time - among other things because of threats to impose a punitive tariff on goods from China, Canada and Mexico.
Trump's announcement has caused a stir, not least in Canada, where many clearly distance themselves from the newly elected US president.
Old friends and allied countries have received the "love" from Trump to a certain extent.
- There is currently genuine anger against the US and in particular Trump, because Canadians feel hurt, let down and abandoned,
The Canadian resentment against the US is expressed on the social media X under the hashtag: #standswithcanada, which is currently trending.
Donald Trump – as the new man at the helm of the US – wants to gain quick, symbolic victories in the short term that can be communicated as a success to the political backbenches.
According to a commentator, from Trump's perspective, it should look as if the president manages to make a change of course and – unlike Joe Biden – secure good agreements for 'God's own country'.
That is why Donald Trump signed a presidential decree last week that imposes a 25 percent tariff on goods from Mexico and Canada – as well as a 10 percent tariff on goods from China.
Shortly before the tariffs were to come into effect, the US agreed on Monday evening to enter into a one-month pause on new tariffs with both Mexico and Canada.
It shows how Donald Trump works and how far the president is willing to go.
- Trump is testing the outside world and trying to go "right to the edge". The way Trump is behaving, no one will trust the United States anymore.
Since World War II, the United States has been the stable force that the outside world and the Western democracies have been able to count on.
This perception is now threatened due to Donald Trump's start to his second presidential term.
Although the United States and other countries have not always completely agreed on foreign policy issues, we have been able to count on the United States wherever we have had it.
Many expert believes that the United States with Trump as president is behaving decidedly disrespectfully and defying a number of common international norms.
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