Trumps globaler Einfluss schwindet – schauen Sie sich nur an, wie Putin ihn behandelt

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President Trump is known and feared for his swagger on the global stage.
But this conceals a fair degree of stagger from a man whose power is weakened by a combination of vanity and impatience.

His geo-political version of *The* *Apprentice* finale in the sands of Sharm el-Sheik was on the surface [an extraordinary display of global fealty](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/gaza-peace-deal-sham-3992456?srsltid=AfmBOoqAlYWnTG-CkL52CpTmgpZcuKYSQY-Tmjj9_cxKlg_UMJaWwPgK&ico=in-line_link). Leaders from our Prime Minister to the Indonesian President were summoned to the stage like extras in a Trump movie to pay homage to the great peacemaker. It was as impressive as it was cringe worthy.

But, as Trump likes to say when it comes to peace: it takes two to tango. A glaring absence from the stage was a dance partner without whom no tango can happen. And that was Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A more powerful president would have forced Netanyahu to come and shake hands with the President of the Palestinian authority Mahmoud Abbas.

American power is not what it used to be. A boastful Trump would beg to differ, but Trump’s grandiloquence inevitably sets him up for failure.

Are we really measuring **world** influence of a head of state specifically how Putin treats that head of state?