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Eugene

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Mon Jul 21, 2025, 12:30 AM Yesterday

News Analysis: Trump's 'force of personality' hasn't delivered on key foreign policy goals

Source: Los Angeles Times

News Analysis: Trump's 'force of personality' hasn't delivered on key foreign policy goals

Doyle McManus
Sun, July 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM EDT·6 min read

When President Trump returned to the White House in January, he promised to deliver big foreign policy wins in record time.

He said he would halt Russia’s war against Ukraine in 24 hours or less, end Israel’s war in Gaza nearly as quickly and force Iran to end to its nuclear program. He said he’d persuade Canada to become the 51st state, take Greenland from Denmark and negotiate 90 trade deals in 90 days.

“The president believes that his force of personality … can bend people to do things," his special envoy-for-everything, Steve Witkoff, explained in May in a Breitbart interview.

Six months later, none of those ambitious goals have been reached.

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/news/news-analysis-trumps-force-personality-100000628.html

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News Analysis: Trump's 'force of personality' hasn't delivered on key foreign policy goals (Original Post) Eugene Yesterday OP
taco and his cult may call it that. greatauntoftriplets Yesterday #1
The president believes a great many things that are not at all true. tanyev Yesterday #2
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