Thomas Wright: “The Trump administration has consistently embraced Europe’s nationalist-populist parties as ideological partners, and even launched a State Department fund to support MAGA-aligned European groups. It surely sees the AfD’s ascendance as a sign that politics are moving in its direction.”

“But that is true only if Trump’s real goal is a fragmented Europe that accommodates Russian and Chinese power and is unable to punch its weight. Such an outcome would be catastrophic for U.S. interests.”

“Andy Burnham’s once-fervent criticisms of U.S. President Donald Trump have been dismissed by a UK cabinet member as just ‘politics’ as the two leaders prepare to meet for the first time in New York this week,” the Financial Times reports.

“As mayor of Greater Manchester, Burnham said in 2021 in the wake of the Capitol riots that ‘any UK politician who gave Trump the time of day should be ashamed right now,’ and has also previously described U.S. politics as ‘poisonous.'”

“The UK prime minister is expected to meet Trump and other world leaders on the margins of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday amid hopes that common transatlantic interests and personal chemistry will overcome past differences.”

“I wouldn’t necessarily put a timeline on it.”

— UN Ambassador Mike Waltz, in an interview with CNN, on whether the Iran War could extend into 2029.

New York Post: “In a call with Fox News on Sunday, Trump laid out three possible paths for Iran: they make a deal with the U.S. or Trump will choose between ‘letting them rot economically,’ or wiping Iran out entirely.”

Said Trump: “My question is, if and when do I blow the entire nation up? They better behave.”

“When President Donald Trump first ran for office, he called out China as a menace to the U.S. economy, saying it had gutted America’s factories and eroded the middle class,” the Associated Press reports.

“That tough talk helped Trump get to the White House a decade ago, but since then, he increasingly speaks in glowing terms about Chinese President Xi Jinping, the geopolitical rival Trump will fete on Thursday with a state dinner.”

Said Trump: “He’s a great gentleman; we get along great. We have a very good trading relationship and, you know, they’re a competitor and all of that, but we have a very good relationship with President Xi.”

“On issue after issue, the Republican president has given Xi a pass.”