Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

Donald Trump engaged with many issues that, at the margin, largely had been ignored in course of the eight years that preceded his tenure as President of the United States of America.

Issues engaged with by Trump are inclusive of:

North Korea’s belligerence.

America giving up too much to the rest of the world for facilitation of prosperity of rest of the world, as such inducing impoverishment of some segment of America.

The attitude on part of the moderate Muslim that terrorism is ‘America’s problem’, as opposed to joint problem of the moderate Muslim and other well meaning persons everywhere.

Many of the issues that Trump engaged with were deserving of utmost vigorous attention.

While Trump engaged with many deserving issues, he failed at placement of the issues ahead of his persona.

With respect to North Korea, having diplomats negotiate all of the thorny issues, as opposed to direct engagement between himself and his North Korean counterpart, would have had much higher probability of success.

With focus on international relations, interactions with China, the European Union, NATO etc. ought to have been focused on necessity of…