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Trump's presidency / La présidence Trump

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Donald Trump, une menace pour l'ordre mondial d'après-guerre. President Trump and the new world order. Trump and World Order. Since the administration of Franklin Roosevelt, 13 successive U.S. presidents have agreed that the United States must assume the mantle of global leadership. Although foreign policy varied from president to president, all sent the clear message that the country stood for more than just its own well-being and that the world economy was not a zero-sum game. That is about to change. U.S. President Donald Trump has promised a foreign policy that is nationalist and transactional, focused on securing narrow material gains for the United States. He has enunciated no broader vision of the United States’ traditional role as defender of the free world, much less outlined how the country might play that part. That order was fraying well before November 8.

Some countries will resist this new course, joining alliances intended to oppose U.S. influence or thwarting U.S. aims within international institutions. Your subscription includes: Full website and iPad access Magazine issues New! Inside Donald Trump's White House Chaos. For two years, Donald Trump mastered the art of disruption. Name a political precept and he probably broke it during his improbable march to the White House. But disruption in government--the rulemaker breaking the rules--turns out to be more costly. In the first month of his presidency, the New York billionaire has witnessed the lesson of Samson: toppling the temple can be painful if you try it from the inside. Federal judges in four courts froze a hastily issued Executive Order barring certain immigrants from entering the country. Intelligence officials leaked descriptions of classified intercepts in a winning attempt to force Trump to fire his National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn, who had misled the nation about his ties with a Russian diplomat.

Then more leaks came, from current and former officials to the New York Times, asserting that Trump campaign aides and senior Russian intelligence officials had been in contact during the 2016 presidential campaign. Related. Trump et les démons de l'Amérique isolationniste. Une image frappante, tirée d'un vieux numéro du "New York Times magazine", a été partagée ces derniers jours des centaines de milliers de fois sur les réseaux sociaux : on y voit une main effaçant d'un coup de peinture bleue, sur une mappemonde, tout ce qui entoure les Etats-Unis.

Depuis son investiture, Donald Trump semble tout faire pour couper son pays du reste du monde : il s’isole diplomatiquement, ferme les portes à l’immigration de sept pays musulmans (100 000 visas ont été refusés) poursuit sa politique commerciale protectionniste. Ce faisant, il s’inscrit dans plusieurs traditions américaines, pas des plus sympathiques. "Red scare", la peur rouge A l’époque déjà, l'argument du risque terroriste était mis en avant par Washington pour justifier la restriction de l'immigration.

Après la révolution russe de 1917, les Etats-Unis ont également été pris de la première "peur rouge" ("red scare") : la crainte d’une contagion bolchévique en Amérique. "America First”, l’Amérique d’abord.

Immigration

Economics / Economie. Relations with Mexico / Relations avec le Mexique. Relations with Russia / Relations avec la Russie. Trump's impeachment / Destitution de Trump.