The selfish president who shrank America

The president who promised to “make America great again” is the one who made it smaller than any other president in modern times. Foreign leaders – friends, partners and allies, but mainly rivals and foes – saw Donald Trump’s America as a country that is unreliable, phobic, introverted, uninterested in issues like human and civil rights violations, and incapable or unwilling to assume its traditional role as leader on a slew of vital questions.