'My favorite president': Donald Trump and the art of rekindling world leader bromances

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

86% : For his part, Trump has lauded Orban as the kind of leader the world needs more of: "fantastic," "respected," strong.
80% : "You are my favorite president," Trump told Milei when they spoke by phone after Trump's election victory, according to a Milei aide who posted about it on social media.
70% : "In fact, during his first term, Trump used personal chemistry and flattery to pursue his America-first agenda.
68% : In a nod to Trump, Milei even ran an election campaign called "Make Argentina Great Again.
68% : Trump introduced Modi as "my friend, a friend of India" and as someone who "has left a deep and lasting impact everywhere."
63% : Trump characterized Hungary's fiery, right-wing strongman leader Viktor Orban as "one of the most respected men.
62% : What the U.S. wants: First and foremost, Trump wants to bring both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the negotiating table with a view to ending Russia's nearly three-year-old invasion of Ukraine.
62% : "Xi emphasized said in his post-election message to Trump that that China and the U.S. must "get along."
61% : Trump says he can do this "in a day."
60% : "Trump added that Xi was a "very fierce person."
57% : Milei is expected to travel to a CPAC event at Trump's at Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, this week.
56% : Still, Ali al-Ahmed, a U.S.-based Saudi scholar and dissident, said that Trump and MBS enjoy strong personal chemistry, both like "huge" deals and they may yet find a way to work out their differences.
56% : Putin has seen five U.S. presidents come - Trump 2.0 will be his sixth - and four - Biden will be his fifth - go.
56% : When Trump visited India a year later, Modi threw him an event in the world's largest cricket stadium.
56% : Trump, when it comes to China, appears mostly interested in tariffs.
55% : Trump tapped Mike Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, be the next U.S. ambassador to Israel.
55% : Trump priors: Trump has said he gets on well with China's leader Xi Jinping.
53% : "When it comes to Trump, it's important to distinguish between his policy rhetoric and action, said Kupchan.
53% : But Trump has also gone on the record saying he met Putin during a 2013 visit to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant.
51% : There was Kim, of whom Trump once boasted he had "fallen in love."
50% : And what it means"The word I would use to describe what we should expect from Trump 2.0 is 'transactional,' said Charles Kupchan, a professor of international affairs at Georgetown University.
46% : "He'd like to see me back, too," Trump said of Kim.
46% : Trump and Milei are aligned.
45% : But Trump has "bros" overseas, too - older ones who run countries and who may be expecting him, for a second time, foreign affairs analysts say, to reorient U.S. foreign policy away from global alliances and toward their politically populist, in some cases authoritarian, priorities.
45% : What's more, tech billionaire Elon Musk, just selected by Trump to co-lead the newly coined Department of Government Efficiency, has his own budding bromance with Milei over what they see as the urgent need to "free markets."
42% : Trump wanted to build a wall: These European nations already didTrump priors: Orban was one of the few EU leaders to enthusiastically endorse both of Trump's presidential campaigns.
41% : In Argentine President Javier Milei, Trump may see an ally who is willing to dismantle whole government agencies and restrict or disband altogether policies aimed at climate change, LGBTIQ+ rights, migrants and worker protections.
41% : "Do what you have to do," Trump reportedly told Netanyahu in one call in October.
40% : "Yoga diplomacy: Ahead of U.S. state visit, India's leader takes to his mat at the U.N.Trump priors: None of the above has appeared to matter to Trump.
39% : Trump dismantled many widely held assumptions of the U.S. foreign policy establishment when it comes to Israel.
38% : "I would say: if you go into Taiwan, I'm sorry to do this, I'm going to tax you at 150% to 200%," Trump said on the campaign trail.
38% : Will Trump the dealmaker or Trump the competitor step forward?
37% : Trump priors: Trump greeted Milei, an economic libertarian who's deeply suspicious of government, with a massive, ecstatic bear hug when they met backstage at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C., in February.
37% : In 2018, when Saudi dissident and journalist Khashoggi was ambushed, murdered and dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, Trump, some critics said, effectively looked the other way.
36% : "Perhaps telling about how Trump will approach Netanyahu, and Israel more broadly: He selected two diplomatic envoys to Israel and the Middle East who have virtually no policy experience in the region.
35% : Trump's returning to the White House:
35% : In his congratulatory post to Trump on X, Modi shared photos of the two leaders hugging, smiling and holding hands.
34% : Ask China," Trump said in one testy exchange with a reporter who had asked him during a press conference asked why he always said the U.S. was doing better than any other country on COVID testing.
32% : Trump also overlooked Jewish settlement expansion on land claimed by Palestinians and announced that the U.S. would be shifting its position, in place since 1978, on Israeli settlements in the West Bank, a Palestinian territory, no longer viewing them as inconsistent with international law.
32% : Trump named Steven Witkoff as his incoming administration's Middle East envoy.
31% : But MBS be more wary of Trump this time.
31% : During his first term, Trump imposed tariffs on China ranging from 10% to 25% on various Chinese goods.
30% : "Trump is going to attempt to bring an end to the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East and that will require difficult conversations with democratic and non-democratic leaders alike.
30% : And it's the same for Putin, an ex-KGB officer who has long trafficked in misinformation, disinformation, propaganda and outright lies, on Trump.
29% : And there is Trump the strategic competitor who felt cheated by China on Covid and the bilateral trade deal.
28% : The real story of Trump and Putin's relationship, such as it is, is not clear.
26% : Not least because Trump has signaled he may be willing to give Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wide latitude for its offensives against Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon following the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel.
26% : Orban is arguably Europe's fiercest anti-immigration leader, a stance that may not offend Trump.
26% : Trump also closed the Palestinian Liberation Organization's mission in Washington, D.C. - its de facto embassy - and cut off U.S. funding to organizations that work on Palestinian issues.
20% : He's echoed Trump on immigration and social issues.
20% : After speaking to Trump, he said, "We see eye to eye on the Iranian threat in all its components, and the danger posed by it.
18% : However, Trump during the coronavirus pandemic routinely sought to blame China for the COVID pandemic and called on Beijing to be punished for its handling of the disease.

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