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 Russias war against Ukraine in 24 hours or less, end Israels war in Gaza nearly as quickly and force Iran to end to its nuclear program. He said hed 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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