What's the true cost of Donald Trump? All the crises around the world that we've no time to fix | Jonathan Freedland

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Throughout, people in every ministry and trading floor on the planet held their breath, along with the boardroom of every company that buys or sells overseas, as they watched to see what Trump would do next to the global economy currently held hostage in the Oval Office.
57% : Trump used to get his dopamine hit from a mention in the gossip columns of the New York tabloids; now he's tasted the thrill of commanding an audience in the billions and he's hooked.
55% : Last week, it was Trump as gameshow host in the White House Rose Garden, proudly unveiling his Price is Right table of import duties, listing each country alongside the percentage by which it was about to get whacked.
53% : Enter Trump.
48% : That approach fits with the suggestion that the likes of Japan, Canada, South Korea and Australia join forces with Britain and the EU to form a free trade alliance minus the US.
37% : Of course, it would be naive to imagine that, absent Trump, they would be devoting every waking hour to reducing carbon emissions.
35% : Figures are hard to come by, but a monitoring lab at Yale puts the number of dead in the civil war that has raged there since 2023 as high as 150,000, with the UN accusing both sides of "harrowing" crimes, including mass rape and torture.
31% : Naturally, no one expects Donald "Drill, baby, drill" Trump to care about that, not when he actively wants to see the world burning more, not fewer, fossil fuels.
29% : Given what Donald Trump is doing to the world economy - and the world - we need to talk about opportunity cost. Put simply, opportunity cost is the value of opportunity lost.
29% : To repeat, Trump will lose no sleep over any of this.
26% : Instead, say campaigners, there's been a "loss of leadership, coordination and money", traceable to the day Trump took office.
25% : But just think where all that collective energy could be going if it were not having to confront a crisis started so needlessly by Trump.

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