Trump remakes America in his own image: Angry, hateful, afraid

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/03/13/opinions/trump-remakes-america-angry-hateful-afraid-filipovic/index.html

(CNN) Donald Trump seems determined to make America ugly again.

He has insulted scores of nations, undercut our allies and projected the worst of American xenophobia, racism, small-mindedness and vulgarity overseas.

In a world that is deeply interconnected, he wants to isolate the United States. It's working -- our image gets worse every day. That doesn't make America great. It hurts all of us.

On Tuesday Trump announced he had fired his Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson. Tillerson had been on his first visit to Africa -- a continent made up of nations Trump tarred as "shithole countries," and one that obviously wasn't all that important to the White House.

Indeed, the US has been losing influence across the continent for years, while China's influence spreads.

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1. We already have the overweight part down