'America First' Is Straining Bill Gates's Optimism
The philanthropist still thinks the world is getting better. But he says pulling foreign aid from global-health measures would reverse that trend.
Bill Gates isn’t a big fan of “America First.” In a recent episode of The Atlantic Interview, he told Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, “the long-term benefit of [nations] trusting each other, even beyond one or two terms of office, is a pretty gigantic thing.”
That’s not to say Gates is pessimistic about the future. His and Melinda Gates’s Tuesday, is otherwise sunny in its global outlook. Even after 2017, when 59 percent of Americans the APA they were currently living through the lowest point in the nation’s history, the couple wrote that “we see a world that’s getting better.”
