As Donald Trump defended his 'art of the deal' persona amid reports he lost $1 billion during his business heyday, the celebrity businessman-turned-politician also faced major diplomatic troubles.
President Donald Trump has struggled to come up with a foreign policy win and has instead allowed hawkish voices within his administration to further escalate global tensions as ambitious diplomatic initiatives failed, experts say.
"I think as President Trump's tax returns are showing, he is not the deal-maker he has portrayed himself to be," Tom Collina, policy director of the Ploughshares Fund think tank, told Newsweek. Once in the White House, Trump quickly began threatening to renegotiate or scrap what he routinely called"one of the worst deals" ever made—a term he's also used in describing other international arrangements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization.
National security adviser John Bolton listens to President Donald Trump speak during a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi at the White House, on April 9. Bolton has championed a hawkish approach for a president who campaigned on stopping “endless wars” waged by the U.S. around the world. Alex Wong/Getty Images
Still, many experts were hopeful of a potential deal between the two leaders, who continued to praise one another. Instead, Trump walked out early and the North Korean delegation blamed Bolton, who joined the talks at the final stretch and reportedly pushed for stricter measures against Pyongyang's weapons of mass destruction program, apparently derailing the conversation.
Prior to Trump's fragile detente with Kim, one way in which the White House sought to get to North Korea was through its top ally, China. Getting"tough" on Beijing was one of Trump's earliest campaign promises, one directed specifically at working class Americans, whom he argued were losing out due to a massive trade deficit between the world's top two economies, but he attempted to leverage a relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping to put pressure on Kim.
Fein warned that Trump's"clumsy attempt to play hardball with China on trade is just making him look weak, hurting the American economy, and making it harder for the United States to operate on the global stage."
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