Trump: Trade, Tirade and Transatlantic Relations

Akshobh Giridharadas
4 min readMay 12, 2019

Not since the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt has American foreign policy been at crossroads with so many debates and discourse on how to proceed.

The Trump administration’s foreign-policy schizophrenia has seen the United States jettison from multilateral trade deals and pulling back from common security pacts such as NATO. It has alienated allies and expressed a strange softness for some former adversaries such as Russia.

President Donald Trump is following a path of Jacksonian populism that is only…

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Akshobh Giridharadas

A journalist by profession. He writes about business & finance, geopolitics, sports & tech news. He is a TEDx & Toastmasters speaker. Follow him @Akshobh