Max Boot: President Trump has already destroyed Americas reputation
By Max Boot | Foreign Policy
For years, as a seller of real estate and star of reality TV, Donald Trump made a living wooing customers and viewers. His selling skills were good enough that he even persuaded voters to elect him as president in spite of his near-total lack of qualifications. Yet once in office, he has proved to be the worst salesman America has ever had. Far from winning over other countries, he is actively repelling and repulsing them.
With his “America first” mantra and his crude attacks on other countries and regions (e.g., the “s---holes” of Africa, Haiti and El Salvador), Trump seems intent on changing America’s image abroad from largely positive to unremittingly hostile. He cares so little about this troubling trend that he is wrecking the State Department, which is supposed to represent America abroad. Morale at Foggy Bottom is at rock bottom, as indicated by statistics showing that 60 percent of the State Department’s top-ranking career diplomats have left and new applications to join the foreign service have fallen by half.
Trump is ending the Pax Americana and helping to usher in either a Chinese Century or a new global disorder where there is no international law and life is “nasty, brutish and short.”
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2018/01/23/max-boot-president-trump-has-already-destroyed-americas-reputation/
The destruction of the US State Department and the failure of the GOP Congress to defend one of our greatest and ancient institutions needs to be reported by the media. Just another lost story.
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