Is the president accomplishing the goals he set out for himself? In most cases, the answer is no, writes columnist DoyleMcManus.
All true. But let’s apply a more practical test: Is the president accomplishing the goals he set out for himself?Sure, Trump has kept some of the foreign policy promises he made in his campaign. He moved the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, abandoned theand announced U.S. withdrawal from the 2016 Paris agreement on climate change. But those were easy, accomplished by signing proclamations.
He has pushed U.S. allies in NATO to increase their defense spending, but not enough for his satisfaction. He succeeded in, the trade deal with Mexico and Canada. But its ratification in the Senate is far from assured. On the biggest priorities— more equitable trade with China, a nuclear disarmament deal with North Korea, an Iran less capable of threatening its neighbors — he gets, at best, an incomplete.on Trump’s foreign policy for the Council on Foreign Relations. He gave the president the benefit of the doubt: “Trump’s foreign policies are better than they seem,” he wrote.
Skinner and other Trump acolytes have labored for months to turn the president’s slogan of “America first” into a more elaborate “Trump Doctrine.”, boil down to this: Every nation should pursue its own interests. For strong nations like the United States, alliances and multinational organizations just get in the way.
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