Trump’s Momentum Has World Leaders Bracing

“Donald Trump’s free-form stump speeches bounce around the globe, ticking off problems and grievances with foreign governments. Until recently, world leaders had tuned him out,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Now they are parsing Trump’s words and making plans for the possibility he will return to the White House…”

“Leaders in many of America’s closest allied nations fear an administration willing to ignore diplomatic norms and traditions. Some also worry that a second Trump administration would slash the U.S. security umbrella at the core of a postwar order that brought peace, democracy and rising prosperity to much of the world. Others see a potential upside in a president who has emphasized business-world pragmatism.”