Americans Are Watching Trump's Foreign Policy Moves— And Most Do Not Like What They Are Seeing

This Isn't What He Campaigned On

Trump hasn’t bombed any countries aside from Yemen so far… but he’s been threatening to use military force against Denmark (Greenland), Panama, Mexico and Gaza… and to pull U.S. troops out of Eastern European NATO countries to please Putin. But he has basically declared a trade war against— well, the whole world (except Russia) with his pointless, failed tariff agenda.

On Monday with Netanyahu visiting him, Trump was babbling to reporters about something he knows nothing about: international trade, claiming that the European Union was created specifically to “screw” the United States, conflating trade deficits with domestic budget deficits,  misstating how tariffs are applied and on whom. And lying his ass off. His Liberation Day tariffs will cost Americans over $2 trillion more in import taxes over the next decade despite his claims that foreign governments pay the tariffs. Nor do foreign governments pay for the collapsing American stock markets. Obviously senile, He said “I said we’re going to try and get groceries down right? An old-fashioned term, but a beautiful term. Eggs. Because prices got so high people couldn’t live. I mean, the prices for groceries, the prices for standard, standard groceries, standard things were going through the roof. They couldn’t live. And now those prices are coming down, so call them groceries.”

From Quinnipiac today

Americans are starting to catch on. And not just about tariffs. A new poll from Pew shows that most Americans are unhappy with the way he’s handling foreign policy in general. Only the third of Americans who identify as MAGAts approve of him leaving international organizations.

Same for the way he tilts towards Russia and Israel. His former national security advisor, John Bolton said recently that “Trump views international relations through the prism of his personal relations with foreign leaders. So he thinks that if he has good relations with Putin, then the U.S. has good relations with Russia. That’s not true, but that’s what he thinks. He thinks he and Putin are friends… Putin doesn’t think they’re friends; he thinks Trump is an easy mark.”

And even fewer want to see him trying to take over Greenland and Gaza (Panama has faded from the front pages):