Deep Info News

May 2, 2026

Trump is wielding effective global power, but his foreign policy victory laps are misleading

In his second term, pop music aficionado Donald Trump looks like he’s actually doing it. And if his shimmy with a Malaysian dance troupe on Sunday is anything to go by, the president is having a ball.

World leaders bow down before him, as on his trip to Asia, which has already seen a shower of tributes in Kuala Lumpur and the signing of a truce between Thailand and Cambodia that Trump helped broker — even if he claims a little more credit than he’s owed.