China and a largely self-absorbed

on the contest for primacy with China and a largely self-absorbed Europe that would continue to look across the Atlantic for leadership. Rather, the US President and his advisors seem to dislike Europe as a whole in cultural, almost personal terms. While individual European leaders may earn the respect of the President, for instance Keir Starmer’s UK or Giorgia Meloni’s Italy, Trump seems to prefer to mingle with strongmen around the world rather than to patiently cultivate meaningful relationships with the varied cohort of Europe’s democratically-elected leaders. Unlike in his first term when the cabinet was a mixed bag of MAGA and establishment Republicans, this time the US President has surrounded himself mainly with loyalists and ultraconservatives สล็อต