{"id":9079,"date":"2026-01-10T21:59:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2026\/01\/10\/trumps-foreign-policy-sounds-rather-king-like-cnn\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T21:59:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:59:47","slug":"trumps-foreign-policy-sounds-rather-king-like-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2026\/01\/10\/trumps-foreign-policy-sounds-rather-king-like-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s foreign policy sounds rather king-like – CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two months ago, President Donald Trump and his allies ridiculed Trump\u2019s opponents for their massive \u201cNo Kings\u201d rallies. They cast it as melodramatic to compare Trump\u2019s actions and aims to a king. <\/p>\n

But as Trump has launched into an increasingly brazen effort to wield the threat of the US military and to dominate the Western Hemisphere \u2013 including by striking Venezuela and ousting its leader, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro \u2013 Trump and top officials have taken to talking in rather king-like terms. <\/p>\n

Trump in a New York Times interview<\/a> this week said nothing could stand in his way except himself. <\/p>\n

Asked if there were any limits that existed on his global power, Trump said: \u201cYeah, there is one thing: My own morality. My own mind. It\u2019s the only thing that can stop me.\u201d <\/p>\n

When pressed, Trump conceded that he needed to abide by international law. But that came with a catch: He got to decide what international law constraints applied. (This is a theme with Trump, which we\u2019ll get to.) <\/p>\n

The Times called this Trump\u2019s \u201cmost blunt acknowledgment yet of his worldview.\u201d But it\u2019s certainly not the only one. <\/p>\n

The administration has in recent days taken to describing Trump\u2019s efforts to dominate the Western Hemisphere in remarkably blunt terms \u2013 in which about all that matters is power and leverage. <\/p>\n

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has said the United States\u2019 leverage over a sovereign nation, Venezuela, means its \u201cdecisions are going to continue to be dictated by the United States of America.\u201d <\/p>\n

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In an interview with CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper<\/a> early this week, White House adviser Stephen Miller described a \u201creal world\u2026 that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThe future of the free world, Jake, depends on America being able to assert ourselves and our interests without apology,\u201d Miller said. <\/p>\n

And repeatedly, Trump and those around him have suggested this power is largely or wholly unconstrained by the law. <\/p>\n

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