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Bremmer notably failed to foresee the rise of Trump, initially saying the brash reality TV star would not win the Republican nomination, then claiming that Trump was “extremely unlikely” to be elected president as he would never be able to claim enough of the anti-establishment vote that supported Bernie Sanders. In the end, Trump proved him wrong, turning over a series of traditionally Democrat blue collar states where Sanders’ support had been high.
Bremmer has expressed concern over the turmoil the Trump administration and its America First policies could cause.
In a March interview with Inc, Bremmer argued that the “major driver of political risk” in the world was this “new U.S. government—not doing things that historically were done, and doing things that historically were not done.”