Opinion: Trump 1.0 made some world leaders laugh. Trump 2.0 terrifies them
8 months, 1 week ago

Opinion: Trump 1.0 made some world leaders laugh. Trump 2.0 terrifies them

LA Times  

One sign of international trepidation over a second Trump administration: an effigy of the former president, with an American flag swastika, decorated a float in a parade in Germany in February. “Throughout Donald Trump’s presidency, publics around the world held the United States in low regard,” the Pew Research Center reported soon after he left office. Trump’s former national security advisor John Bolton has said repeatedly that even the autocrats Trump admires — Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un, among others — “think he’s a laughing fool.” The Japanese have a phrase for their Trump trepidation, the Washington Post reported ahead of this week’s state visit by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. … It’s a shorthand for: What if Donald Trump wins?” “It makes us nervous,” former Japanese lawmaker Mieko Nakabayashi told the Post. On the sidelines at NATO’s 75th birthday commemoration last week in Brussels, attendees commiserated about a potential Trump 2.0, and talked about “Trump-proofing” the alliance generally and support for Ukraine specifically.

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