Donald Trump, Dealbreaker
Donald Trump styles himself a dealmaker, but so far in his presidency he hasn’t struck many deals on the international stage, besides a multibillion-dollar arms agreement with Saudi Arabia that might not be quite as massive as advertised.
Instead, the U.S. leader has consistently assumed the role of dealbreaker— the United States from the Paris climate-change accord, the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade agreement, and aspects of the U.S. opening toward Cuba. Just this week, the Trump administration American membership in UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural agency, over the organization’s alleged anti-Israel bias; that the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico might conclude with the pact’s collapse; and that it will decline to
