President Trump’s Influence Is Spreading Beyond Our Borders 

Whatever your political and ideological affinities, you have to admit that President Trump is far cry from the usual politician. He has set aside conventional standards, and established his own method of governance. Outspoken, bombastic, at times irreverent, Mr. Trump’s decisions, initiatives, and executive orders are all geared toward an America First agenda, and traditional values.

The president’s firm belief in this nationalistic fervor allows him to speak out and challenge any entity, domestic or international, that he believes either threatens or differs politically, ideologically, and culturally from his agenda, case in point.

In his recent trip to the United Kingdom, President Trump accomplished his objectives, visiting his new luxury golf resort in Turnberry, Scotland, and securing a landmark trade and security agreement with the European Union that was highly favorable to the United States. But that was not all. As most of the world has come to realize, the president is a character and has a reputation for speaking his mind, at times without any discretion.

“Right out of the box,” as the saying goes, no sooner did he step off Air Force One, and engage British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Mr. Trump expressed his opinion regarding the UK’s migrant crisis and the threat it poses to the nation. “The UK must get its act together on illegal immigration, if you don’t stop this horrible invasion, you’re not going to have Europe anymore.”

The president also commented on the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, as being the worst mayor ever. According to some reports, Mr. Starmer looked uncomfortable, and remarked, "He’s a friend of mine, actually." This did not stop Mr. Trump from his criticism of Khan, who is a “nasty person” and who’s done a “terrible job in London.”

And it didn’t stop there, as Mr. Trump lowered the boom on wind power and windmills, “The worst form of energy, they’re ugly, made in China, and they kill the birds,” and the whales. The PM shifted uneasily in his chair, and appeared lost for words. The president then commented on Britain’s environmental policy, which is based more on green energy: “you’re wasting a treasure chest of oil and gas,” in the North Sea. "There’s a vast fortune to be made.”

The British online magazine Spiked had this to say, which just about sums up the Trump phenomenon: “Again, millions of people here will have been wondering why a foreign president cares more about cutting our bills and improving our lives than our own leaders do. Between truth-spitting Trump and gray-faced Starmer, we glimpsed the great divide in modern politics. On one side, a populist president who bristles at wokeness is wary of globalism, and loves economic growth. On the other, a lame duck PM who worships supranatural institutions like the EU, refuses to dig for oil, and can’t even say what a woman is.” 

By now, most of the known world knows President Trump and where he stands on issues of politics and culture, and his ideological persuasion. He is having a profound effect on world leaders, and even their people. Spiked magazine invited the American president to come and rescue the British people, “How about it, Donald? Turnberry could be your seat of power from which you can continue spilling truths to grateful Britons - and start turning us back from our own self-destruction.”