US President Donald Trump’s unilateral decisions to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, “decertify” the nuclear deal with Iran and pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) with allied nations has made his so-called “America first” approach appear more and more like ‘America alone’ stance, a US-based daily says.
“It is not just on trade that Trump has sought to stake out positions that have isolated the United States from the rest of the world,” The Washington Post reported Saturday. “His plans to withdraw from the Paris climate accord … could mean that the United States is the only country in the world not committed to it, since Syria announced its intention to join last week.”
The influential daily further pointed to Trump’s recent decision not to recertify the Iran nuclear deal – known as the JCPOA – insisting that it has “put him at odds not just with China and Russia, but also with US treaty allies…