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Donald Trump's presidential victory means some U.S. allies may have to reckon with prior scathing remarks as their countries prepare to build diplomatic ties with a president-elect whose return they may not have anticipated. “The most destructive president in history,” Australian Ambassador to the U.S. Kevin Rudd said of Trump in 2020, who “drags America and democracy through the mud.” “A woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathizing sociopath” and a “profound threat to the international order,” David Lammy, the U.K.'s current foreign secretary, said in 2018. “A political pyromaniac who must be put before a criminal court,” Jean Asselborn, then-foreign minister for Luxembourg, said...

"The Americans asked for a meeting I can't make it today and that's it. She's not in the executive branch, and in two weeks she will not hold the office she does now, anyway," said Milanovic.

Wealth: A World Bank economist is trying to shame the U.S. for being home to one half of the world's richest people, the so-called 1%. In reality, it's the world that should be red-faced for not creating wealth as America does. Bank chief economist Branko Milanovic has come out with a book called "The Haves and the Have Nots," whose purpose seems to be to argue there's something wrong about America having an outsized concentration of the world's wealth. Implied in the argument is that America's wealth comes at someone else's expense, and the solution is to have a bureaucracy...