OT: So how to you feel about how Trump is going to be "more respected" by other countries...

[Alan Baker]

...than Obama.

I mean now that he's gone on one trip and been openly (and less than
openly) mocked by many of the world leaders he met with:

'The world has taken measure of the president and found a person not to
be taken seriously. It’s the end of the American century.'

<http://www.macleans.ca/news/world/donald-trumps-farewell-tour/>

'But even these diplomatic developments were not the real story. While
Trump was feted in the Middle East, he was treated with surprising
indifference in Europe. For the first time since the Second World War,
an American president stood among allies, not as a first among equals,
but almost like an outsider—someone who had to be invited, but who no
one really was going to take very seriously.

At one point, Trump used a commemorative address to instead complain
that NATO allies were being unfair to “American taxpayers”. The other
leaders standing nearby exchanged wry looks; a few even seemed to roll
their eyes. By all accounts, there was no scramble to appease the
president, no panic among delegations about how to “defuse” the American
anger. No one really cared that much. Likewise, when the president
refused to endorse the Paris Climate Agreement, or NATO’s policy of
mutual defence, no one was willing to bend even a little to mollify the
Americans. They shrugged.'