WASHINGTON, Nov 12 — After his party suffered a midterms hammering, President Donald Trump faces a new challenge: proving he is still the boss of US foreign policy on the global stage.
With Trump politically hamstrung as he enters the remaining two-year ‘lame duck’ period of his White House tenure, world leaders may be quietly wondering how to leverage the new balance of power in Washington.
The 80-year-old Republican heads to the Asean summit in the Philippines and APEC summit in China from a radically transformed and hostile political landscape at home after the Democrats seized both the House of Representatives and Senate.
Constitutionally banned from seeking a third term in the 2028 presidential race, the unpredictable billionaire could be all the more inclined to focus his energy on the international stage.
