Nikki Haley says the U.S. is now 'respected.' Is it?
Analysis from the Washington Post
“Now the United States is respected; countries may not like what we do, but they respect what we do,” Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said about Trump’s time in office.
“They know that if we say we’re going to do something, we follow it through. And the president proved that, whether it was with the chemical weapons in Syria, whether it’s with NATO saying that other countries have to pay their share, I mean — whether it’s the trade deals, which have been amazing — they get that the president means business, and they follow through with that.”
The twist there is that Haley, unlike Trump, modified her description of how the United States is respected. Trump often simply asserts that the United States is now once again respected, a claim that seems hard to square with skeptical views of Trump all over the world. This month, we noted that in only four countries — not including the United States — is his approach to foreign policy viewed positively.
This was crystallized by Trump spurring laughter from the audience at the U.N. General Assembly during a speech there last month, a response that seemed to catch him off guard. Her presentation, while more nuanced than Trump’s, is still pretty hard to validate. Who is Haley even talking about? Citizens? Leaders? It’s not clear.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/09/nikki-haley-says-us-is-now-respected-is-it/?utm_term=.84ec63f3ff31
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