A tale of two leaders

The contrast between the leadership styles and personal values of Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump could not be more stark.

One people, one realm, one leader

In what might have been the longest presidential address to Congress in American history—an hour and forty minutes without intermission—President Donald Trump delivered a performance on Tuesday night that was simultaneously grandiose, confrontational, optimistic and revealing of the direction in which he intended to take his administration and his country.

Betrayal

Has any nation squandered its diplomatic capital, plundered its own political system, attacked its partners and supplicated itself before its far weaker enemies as rapidly and brazenly as Donald Trump’s America?

King Trump

America’s Founding Fathers consciously designed the nascent country’s constitution to prevent its President ruling as a king, which is exactly what Trump is now doing with Vladimir Putin as his exemplar rather than enemy.

El Presidente

The United States appears to be enthusiastically embracing the type of authoritarian regime which has impoverished and oppressed all too many Latin America countries over time.

Trump in the world – Is it time to panic?

From Ukraine abroad to immigration at home, Donald Trump has wasted no time in implementing his radical agenda, so what are the results likely to be?

The foreign aid lessons Trump refuses to learn

Donald Trump’s capricious destruction of America’s foreign aid programme will damage the USA as much as its recipients, and while the returning American President could learn much from his allies on foreign aid, there’s no sign whatsoever that he’s listening.

Trump’s counter-revolution

The West saw a revolution in foreign policy, society, economy and culture in the last century. The new US president is trying to overturn its achievements.

The tragic end of USAID

Donald Trump’s freeze on foreign aid will damage American interests, increase international distress and create new opportunities for China to step in.

“All they will call you will be deportee”

Donald Trump is pressing ahead with his plan to deport undocumented immigrants and those with criminal records, and Pacific nations are likely to be affected, as well as Latin American states.

America first

The litany of executive orders that have dropped on the White House website tell us plenty about what Australia can expect from a second Trump term’s foreign policies.

Revenge and retribution

In his inaugural address, Trump outlined a radical agenda to reshape American life and the United States’ role in the world.