With respect to COVID-19, Trump has provided a master class in how not to handle a serious emergency. Trump has promised to put "America First" in a variety of ways. Although Trump can claim a few foreign-policy successes, his overall record is dismal. He could have worked with other advanced economies to confront China together and worked to reform the World Trade Organization instead of trying to gut it. Yet he was unable to translate his instincts into a successful foreign policy. Trump is the only president whose approval ratings never exceeded 50 percent—not once—and he lost his bid for reelection even though the Electoral College currently makes it much easier for Republicans to win. Yet another objective, given how much Iran policy in the United States has politically been part of Israel policy, is to cater to the pro-Likud part of Trump’s political base. The president-elect has vowed to take a hard line with Beijing, but it is unclear if he will continue Trump’s tariff-heavy approach. The administration has ambitious goals and a deliberate process. He renegotiated NAFTA, ratcheted up tensions with China and tightened the Israeli-Sunni alliance in the Middle East. Mr. Trump has only a handful of like-minded advisers. But some foreign policy experts, ex-diplomats and even Trump's harshest opponents concede that for all of his "America First" nationalism and unorthodox style, Trump… A Trump Foreign Policy by Dimitri K. Simes AFTER A YEAR and a half in office, Donald Trump’s foreign policy appears poised for success, though some major challenges in approach and execution remain. Commentators have regularly opined that Trump’s actions as the president inherently affect the conduct of international law. Trump’s Final Foreign-Policy Report Card ‘Predictable, tactical’: How Biden will tackle US foreign policy. China’s New Five-Year Plan Is a Disappointment, America Will Only Win When China’s Regime Fails, Biden Team Engaged in ‘Rigorous’ Debate Over Ending Forever War, Quad Summit’s Vaccine Deal Is Biden’s Bold First Move in Asia. Trump also took credit for a rise in defence spending from NATO members during his presidency, despite that increase being pledged in 2014. One of the most intriguing aspects of the Trump campaign’s foreign policy rhetoric was its fresh and unorthodox attitude towards America’s national security priorities. Following a 6 October phone conversation with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in which the Turkish president appears to have convinced him to let Ankara take the lead in the military campaign against Isis, Trump ordered all US troops out of the country, without consulting the Pentagon or US allies. Trump’s amateurish handling of North Korea offers another example of foreign-policy ineptitude. In 2016, Trump won … The real problem with the Trump administration’s foreign policy is not its disparaging attitudes toward the United Nations, inherited arms control agreements with the USSR-cum-Russia or Iran, or other international legal instruments such as the Paris Accords on Climate Change, or the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade arrangement. In the end, even America’s many remaining advantages could not make up for Trump’s innate incompetence. On June 1, 2017, Trump announced the US withdrawal from the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, a 196-country agreement signed in December 2015 that aimed to limit global average temperature rise to two degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial averages. Having run for office calling U.S. foreign policy “a complete and total disaster,” was Trump able to right the ship of state and chart a better course? Hiring inexperienced outsiders would inevitably lead to a lot of rookie mistakes; appointing people who knew how to make the government machinery run would enable them to continue the policies he had promised to end. He has addressed all of these. Trump has been airing such views on U.S. foreign policy for some time. The president lost interest in the issue as soon as his PR stunt failed, and North Korea’s nuclear arsenal and missile capabilities have continued to improve ever since. After exchanging some childish taunts on Twitter with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Trump had the good sense to turn to diplomacy instead. Biden needs a grand strategy to clean up Trump’s mess and restore America’s leadership in the world. The relationship also included the January 2020 release of Trump’s much-maligned Middle East Plan, which recognised illegal settlement blocs in the occupied West Bank and granted Israel security control of the Jordan Valley and occupied West Bank. In May 2018, Trump unilaterally withdrew from the deal, which he has said is too lenient.