Trump 2.0 rehashed 'America First.' But this time, it's against the world.

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How Trump’s ‘America First’ became a global affair
A year into his second term, the president's foreign entanglements and trade wars have eclipsed the domestic agenda he campaigned on.

Jan. 18, 2026, 6:00 AM EST
By Julia Jester and Jake Traylor


(MSNow) Moments after he took the oath of office in the Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump made a promise to Americans.

“We will measure our success not only by the battles we win but also by the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into,” he said, vowing to avoid the “catastrophic events abroad” that had consumed his predecessor.

One year later, the United States has carried out nearly 600 military strikes across three continents, according to military watchdog ACLED — more than during President Joe Biden’s entire term — while Trump has threatened force against allies and adversaries alike and launched a global tariff war that has rattled markets and raised consumer prices. After vowing to end America’s proclivity to police the world, in just one year, Trump has launched a deadly operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro; struck 35 vessels in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, killing 115 alleged drug-smugglers; bombed targets in Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Nigeria and Iran; and threatened military action against countries including Colombia, Cuba, Mexico and Greenland.

While food and housing remain unaffordable for many Americans, military spending continues to balloon — the operation to capture Maduro alone is estimated to have cost $500 million alone, and the drug boat strikes and military buildup in the Caribbean is in the “$800 million range,” according to Democratic leadership of the House and Senate Armed Services committees, who said they have yet to receive exact figures from the Pentagon.

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Military action represents only one dimension of the president’s international focus. He has exerted massive economic pressure in the form of tariffs, which he has framed as correcting unfair trade relationships, but which economists say have created economic volatility and raised prices for American consumers. .....................(more)

https://www.ms.now/news/how-trumps-america-first-became-a-global-affair

[Ol Janx Spirit]

1. People in Greenland are wearing red MAGA hats that say: Make America Go Away.

I think much of the rest of the world are feeling that way as well.

Even Netanyahu is feeling burned by the relationship, saying that the Gaza Board of Peace’s executive committee “was not coordinated with Israel and contradicts its policy.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/in-break-with-trump-netanyahus-office-says-gaza-exec-boards-makeup-contradicts-israels-policy/

Surprise Bibi! Gaza was just another grift all along. Welcome to Murica!

Unfortunately, MAGA Republicans' eyes are so glazed over that you can't even ironically channel Sarah Palin and say, "how's that Great Again thing workin' out for ya?"