Donald Trump has been President for less than two months, but is making major impacts, and not in a good way. He has curbed illegal immigration, but that's about it. His on-again, off-again tariffs, along with worries about a looming recession, have sent the stock market into a nosedive. Unemployment is rising. So is inflation. But what bothers me most is that he has turned our foreign policy on its head, from his bellicose threats to Canada, Greenland and Panama to his embrace of Vladimir Putin, a murderous dictator.
The Economic Times reports that "Canadians have taken to booing the American national anthem and Panamanians to burning US flags. The British tabloids have tarred and feathered Vice President JD Vance for insulting British troops. A carnival float in Dusseldorf, Germany, displayed giant puppets of Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, shaking hands while squeezing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy between them into a bloodied pulp. A sign on the float read “Hitler-Stalin Pact 2.0.” Back at home, the Washington Post has published a guide on how to navigate hostility abroad (“dress neutrally, not patriotically”)."
Even more worrying are the taunts, with Trump referring to Canada's former Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, as "Governor."
Most disgusting is the decision to blind Ukraine from intelligence and leave it exposed to Russian attacks.
It is increasingly unlikely that our allies will be there when we need them.
