After Trump Tweet Trouble, US Official in Islamabad for Damage Control

What a sad gathering it is that must tolerate a deranged individual … when they must sit and listen, bowing to protocol or out of fear.

One can speak of a form of state self-destruction in America.

[A]ll things considered, no one has ever done more than Trump to end U.S. global hegemony, reduce Washington’s influence in the world and undermine the power of the presidency in the United States.

[T]he Trump presidency is doing its part to ensure that the long-predicted decline of the superpower becomes a reality much sooner.

It was a grand illusion, one that had taken root in the minds of the U.S. administration’s decision-makers.