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meow2u3

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Sat Jan 28, 2017, 11:51 PM Jan 2017

An America first philosophy? During Mays visit, its more like Trump first.

The world according to President Trump is mostly about President Trump.

Even with British Prime Minister Theresa May standing at the lectern just to his right Friday, the new president used his first joint news conference with a world leader to underscore that while his campaign message may have been “America first,” his actual guiding philosophy is more “Trump first.”

On a host of issues, from Russia to torture to Brexit, Trump cast his policy positions almost entirely in terms of personal — not foreign — relations.

The unusually brief bilateral news conference was, in short, a master class in the geopolitics of personal relationships.

On Russia — a dynamic that clouded his campaign and stemmed, in part, from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s praise of Trump as a “smart” leader — Trump portrayed his policy toward Moscow largely as a question of how he and Putin will hit it off.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/an-america-first-philosophy-during-mays-visit-its-more-like-trump-first/2017/01/27/ce9831c0-e4cf-11e6-ba11-63c4b4fb5a63_story.html?utm_term=.6cedcace18a5&wpisrc=nl_draw&wpmm=1

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