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Mr Trump’s

27 nieuwsberichten over Mr Trump’s.

Hardly his finest hour

Never in the field of human conflict was so much risked by one man for so little. Donald Trump is threatening to cripple Ukraine in its fight for survival—and to expose Europe to Russian aggression—seemingly for the pitiful prize of minimising his...

AlgemeenNRC2 okt

Abolish the White House press corps

With his spitefulness to the press, Donald Trump is giving it the chance to reform how it covers the presidency.

AlgemeenNRC30 sep

Donald Trump drops demands to own Greenland, but the harm has been done

A revised defence pact with Denmark and Greenland is a modest improvement, but annexation threats were a costly blunder.

AlgemeenNRC23 sep

What Donald Trump understands about character in public life

The political style of Donald Trump is so sloppy and coarse that he rarely gets the credit he deserves for cunning and even subtlety. Take his handling of Ken Paxton, the attorney-general of Texas, whose cartoonish defects as a candidate have made his race...

AlgemeenNRC8 sep

Donald Trump’s Venezuela deal is bold but dodgy

Fishermen cast their lines from a boat on Lake Maracaibo in the oil-producing region of Cabimas, Venezuela.

AlgemeenNRC3 sep

As his presidency flounders, Trump is more dangerous than ever

IS DONALD Trump becoming a lame duck? As his troubles multiply at home and abroad, the prospect of dealing with a hobbled American president is enough to make foes and friends swoon with relief.

AlgemeenNRC1 sep

America’s new sanctions are unlikely to topple Iran’s regime

The warnings were apocalyptic. An „economic D-Day” was looming for Iran, blustered Donald Trump. It would be „the single greatest financial offensive ever marshalled against an adversary”, declared Scott Bessent, America’s treasury secretary.

AlgemeenNRC28 aug

The Unwelcoming States of America

First, give Donald Trump some credit. He promised to restore order to the border, and he did. Granted, the slowdown in irregular border-crossings began under Joe Biden, who belatedly closed the loophole whereby nearly anyone could walk across, claim asylum...

AlgemeenNRC15 aug

A bill to punish Putin gives too much power to Donald Trump

U.S. President Donald Trump, with a piece of confetti in his hair, attends the 2026 Patriot Games final at SPIRE Academy in Geneva, Ohio, U.S.,

AlgemeenNRC8 aug

How to end Sudan’s brutal, forgotten conflict

This photograph shows damaged interiors of a Sudanese lawyers’ syndicate after it was reportedly targeted by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

AlgemeenNRC2 aug

How many people are dying as a result of USAID’s demise?

Elon Musk is unrepentant. Starting in January 2025, in his brief stint as Donald Trump’s cost-slasher-in-chief, SpaceX’s boss helped the president dismantle the world’s biggest foreign-aid agency. Eighteen months on, he insists the end of USAID has...

AlgemeenNRC29 jul

Capitalism’s status hierarchy is being upturned

At a recent dinner party, Schumpeter got talking to a wildly successful young man who was downright miserable. He was on the very fast track at a very big hedge fund. His friends, however, were making even bigger bucks in artificial intelligence, a field...

AlgemeenNRC25 jul

The Iran war is consuming the Trump presidency

Donald Trump may hate to hear it, but Barack Obama was right about avoiding „stupid shit”.

AlgemeenNRC11 jul

If ludicrous Trump flattery can save NATO, bring it on

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AlgemeenNRC2 jul

Latin America has turned Trumpy. That creates opportunities

Colombia’s President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella gestures after he received his credentials from Colombia’s National Electoral Council’s President Cristian Ricardo Quiroz Romero.

AlgemeenNRC30 jun

China can be a useful bogeyman in American politics

China wants more sway over how the world thinks. The country’s latest five-year plan aims for a major leap in international influence. This often manifests on social media as cute videos of pandas or futuristic ones of high-speed trains.

AlgemeenNRC29 jun

Israel will come to terms with Donald Trump’s Iran deal

Yet the unstable peace may veer off track even without attempts to derail it, writes Dalia Dassa Kaye.

AlgemeenNRC19 jun

AI has granted America vast new power.

The news is full of how an ignominious peace deal with Iran exemplifies a decline in American power. That conclusion could hardly be more wrong. On June 12th the Trump administration ordered Anthropic to block foreigners from Fable and Mythos, its latest...

AlgemeenNRC16 jun

Donald Trump’s least bad option in Iran

He must swallow his pride and accept a deal worse than the pre-war status quo.

AlgemeenNRC4 jun

The refugees Donald Trump wants are white and middle-class

Afrikaner refugees from South Africa check into domestic flights at Dulles International Airport in Virginia.

AlgemeenNRC21 mei

The EU and China are stumbling into a trade war

The chances of a trade war between the European Union and China are far higher than most Europeans realise. In the corridors of Brussels, insiders have theories to explain this calm. One involves a Trump effect: political and business leaders spend too...

AlgemeenNRC11 mei