Smile, Flatter and Barter: How the World Is Prepping for Trump Part II

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

78% : Orban, Trump has said, is a "very great leader, a very strong man," whom some don't like only "because he's too strong."
66% : "It's especially important and timely while Trump is beginning to form his administration and foreign policy team, and while the new Congress is beginning to form.
59% : During his first term, Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital and moved the U.S. Embassy there, giving Netanyahu a major victory.
57% : Yossi Dagan, an Israeli settler leader who campaigned for Trump, has already been invited to attend his inauguration in Washington, said a spokesperson for Dagan, Esther Allush.
55% : Orban, for his part, has praised Trump as the only hope for peace in Ukraine and for the defeat of "woke globalists.
54% : That presaged stronger support for Taiwan under Trump.
53% : After his fence-mending visit to Mar-a-Lago, Netanyahu was among the first leaders to call Trump on Wednesday for what the Israeli government described as a "warm and cordial" conversation.
52% : So, when Trump turned to Starmer before parting and told him, "We are friends," according to a person involved in the evening, it did not go unnoticed.
52% : By the end of his first term, Trump had soured on several leaders with whom he started off on good terms.
51% : But they cling to the idea that with the proper approach, Trump can be swayed.
49% : These have concentrated on Trump and trade, several European officials said.
47% : Perhaps understandably, he takes a warier view of the value of outreach to Trump.
46% : Netanyahu, like Trudeau, has had his ups and downs with Trump.
45% : Trudeau has had a star-crossed relationship with Trump.
42% : Trump has said he wants all imported goods to be subject to a 10% tariff or higher.
37% : He did not mention that Trump had put Elon Musk, the Silicon Valley billionaire who backed his campaign, on the phone with them.
37% : In 2016, Trump took a phone call from Tsai Ing-wen, then Taiwan's president, a break with U.S. convention against high-level political contacts with Taiwan after Washington shifted diplomatic recognition to Beijing in 1979.
35% : A populist whose autocratic style is a model for some in Trump's MAGA movement, Orban has come, perhaps, the closest to cracking the code with Trump.
35% : Both Lai and Chinese President Xi Jinping sent congratulatory messages to Trump.
34% : Turnbull said he later found other common ground with Trump, even talking him out of imposing tariffs on some Australian exports.
33% : Once quite chummy, the two fell out over tariffs, with Trump walking out of a Group of 7 meeting in Canada in 2018 and calling Trudeau "dishonest and weak."
27% : "There were two misapprehensions about Trump," Malcolm Turnbull, a former prime minister of Australia, said in an interview.
23% : "How to Convince TrumpConvincing Trump that Ukraine's priorities are in his own interest lies at the heart of Zelenskyy's lobbying strategy.
19% : "Pierce's predecessor as ambassador, Kim Darroch, was forced to leave his post after a British newspaper leaked his diplomatic cables critical of Trump.
9% : Zelenskyy and Trump have baggage: Trump's 2019 phone call to the Ukrainian leader, in which the U.S. leader urged him to investigate Joe Biden, triggered the first impeachment proceeding against him.
4% : "In January 2017, Turnbull had a notoriously hostile phone call with Trump over whether the United States would honor an Obama-era deal to accept 1,250 refugees, which Trump opposed (the U.S. did end up taking them).

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