Posted on 10/29/2021 3:11:33 PM PDT by elpadre
In post-World War II American political tradition, foreign trips have become ways for a president to burnish his image and shore up authority at home.
In the 1950s, then-vice president Richard Nixon traveled a lot with an eye on running for president in 1960. Getting stoned by mobs in Venezuela and debating Nikita Khrushchev over the virtues of capitalism at a Moscow trade fair enhanced Nixon’s foreign policy reputation.
The 1960 presidential election winner John F Kennedy made his first trip to Europe and was greeted by rapturous crowds. (The masses were also eager to celebrate his wife). The scenes elevated him to a fresh symbol of American leadership.
Ronald Reagan sometimes turned his foreign visits into major diplomatic events: on a trip to then-divided Berlin, he famously commanded the Soviet Union to unify Germany, saying, “Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”
Presidential hopefuls, especially those with short foreign policy resumes, traveled abroad to project knowledge, even if in post-card style.
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama visited US-occupied Iraq to show that he had enough credibility to take on his substantially more experienced Republican rival John McCain.
Donald Trump introduced a new combative style on foreign trips to please his “America First” home supporters. He notoriously upended diplomatic norms by upbraiding close allies.
Today, President Joe Biden is in Rome for the Group of 20 key economic powerhouses. It’s his second chance to show some sort of global leadership skills.
(Excerpt) Read more at asiatimes.com ...
Brandon hasn’t been able to get his million dollar boondoggle to give other countries our money for phony climate change. They want to be fed!
What BS. Trump did it to restore America to pre-eminence in the world. Trump led the entire MAGA / America First vanguard. His supporters naturally cheered that, but he was most certainly NOT doing it for them. Nor was he following his supporters. He was the true leader.
Simplistic statements like this always cast serious doubt on the writer's ability to think and analyze world politics.
“...In any case, hopes that this pair of foreign meetings will resolve Biden’s domestic political problems is probably folly. Surveys show his job approval ratings at dismal lows as talk of a mid-term election rout of the Democrats next year starts to make headlines.
The US suffers from a host of issues not on the agenda in either Rome or Glasgow: uncontrolled migration across the US southern border; rising inflation; a crime wave; continued inability to safely evacuate hundreds of Afghan allies stranded in the fundamentalist Taliban-ruled country.
Even a rapturous welcome in Rome—there won’t be one—and a meeting with Pope Frances—there is one scheduled–won’t relieve Biden’s multiple political headaches.”
Looks more like he’s running.
International credibility is fading? He has no credibility anywhere but China!
The entire world sees him as the grifter and shakedown artist that he is. Old 10% for the big guy.
Doesn’t matter. No matter how bumbling and ineffectual he is over there, the MSM will flood the airwaves with accounts of how charming and statesmanlike he was. The MSM-fed vegetables back here in the States will eat it up and not miss a beat in their “Orange Man Bad” zombie mantra. Biden could garrote baby rabbits on live TV and they’d blame it on Trump.
It’s not as though Biden is a relative unknown. How long has he been in DC and on the world stage…a LONG time. This report makes it sound as though the euros et al are trying to figure him out. I think not! They known he’s a bungling goof. Everyone though is trying to put the happiest face possible on what’s really a ridiculous farce.
The G7 was like a ‘high school reunion’ all giggles and smiles, but at the G-20 he’s a man adrift without a lifeline
3 years 5 days left
How I hate that you’re correct.
My biggest fear is because he’s doing so poorly at home, he’ll promise the global warming climatists in Glasgow everything they want, and make Obama’s Paris Agreement look like a piker.
They helped our Deep State install the POTATUS.
They got exactly what they wanted.
Now the leftists have installed dementia joe to carry out the destruction of the USA.
I don’t think it is going well.
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