Donald Trump has talked tough on the world stage. TRUMP: North Korea best not make any more threats.
He's turned his back on allies and courted former foes. TRUMP: I would certainly
meet with Iran if they wanted to meet. Early in his presidency as scandals swirled over links between
Russian agents and his associates... TRUMP: I have nothing to do with Russia...
haven't made a phone call to Russia in years. He was defiant. Wooing Russia's president Vladimir
Putin. TRUMP: He just said it's not Russia. I will say this i don't see any reason why it would be.
As the Russia scandal faded Mr Trump honed in on a long-term focus of his ire.
TRUMP: China is ripping us off... you know who's getting the oil China... What china is doing to us is horrible.
First he wooed China's president Xi Jinping to do a deal more favorable to US businesses and farmers.
TRUMP: In a very loving way. But it didn't happen and he launched a trade war. TRUMP: if they charge us we charge
them the same thing. But America's trade deficit with China is now the worst it's been in 12 years
and coronavirus or as Donald Trump calls it 'China virus' appears to have sunk the relationship to new
lows. TRUMP: Our relationship with China was good until they did this. Donald trump has had an even bumpier
ride with North Korea. TRUMP: Do not try us. Goading Kim Jong-Un into an escalating war of words. TRUMP: Rocket man
is on a suicide mission for himself. Before first coming together for a historic summit in Singapore
WOMAN: History in a handshake the dictator and the disruptor on neutral ground and ready to deal.
TRUMP: And we're going to take care of a very big and very dangerous problem for the world. Becoming
the world's most powerful penpals. TRUMP: He wrote me beautiful letters and they're great letters...
we fell in love. Then delivering the dictator a priceless PR victory
Crossing the demilitarized zone from South Korea for a historic handshake.
MAN: President Trump has just walked across the demarcation line
that made him the first US president to visit our country
On Mr Trump's watch, Israel has found favor. His administration first recognizing Jerusalem as the
nation's capital. TRUMP: Today we officially opened the United States embassy in Jerusale. And
then getting the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to sign deals with Israel.
The world did already have a deal to rein in Iran's nuclear program. TRUMP: Frankly it was totally
one-sided it should have never been made... believe me. But that was brokered by Barack Obama and
loathed by Israel. TRUMP: The United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. That's prompted
mysterious bombings in the Persian Gulf with oil tankers attacked, a US drone shot out of the sky,
Donald Trump ordering an air strike on Iranian soil calling it off just minutes before the
bombs began to fall, and the assassination of the Commander of the Revolutionary Guard.
TRUMP: Soleimani's hands were drenched in both American and Iranian blood. None of this has done anything
to get Tehran back to the negotiating table yet. TRUMP: Let's make Iran great again
In Syria, he's also kept the world guessing. TRUMP: My attitude toward
Syria and Assad has changed very much.
After first bombing the country in retaliation for a suspected chemical weapons attack. TRUMP: Tonight
I ordered a targeted military strike. A year and a half later he abruptly declared ISIS had been
defeated in the country. TRUMP: We have won against ISIS we've beaten them and we've beaten them badly.
American troops would withdraw immediately. TRUMP: It was a policy met with condemnation by nearly
everyone. His Secretary of Defense resigned the very next day but Donald Trump didn't care.
This was him making good on his promises. TRUMP: We want to bring our soldiers back home these
are the endless wars. There are now roughly half the number of American soldiers in Syria
than there were back in 2016 and ISIS was left without its leader. TRUMP: Last night the United
States brought the world's number one terrorist leader to justice. Abu bakr Al-Baghdadi is dead.
While Mr Trump has brought old enemies closer, America's other allies, its NATO partners have been
given some distance, stung by complaints they don't spend enough on defence. TRUMP: We're like the piggy bank
that everybody's robbing. And dodging questions about the organisation's relevance. TRUMP: And I never
asked once what the new NATO headquarters cost. This image from the G7 meeting in 2018
summed up the frayed relationship that exists between the president
and the USA's traditional partners. TRUDEAU: Polite, we're reasonable but we also will not be
pushed around but it's kind of insulting. The encounters have ranged from overtly frosty
TRUMP: I would say the highest level of special now am i allowed to go, am I allowed to go higher than that?
And sometimes outright vigorous
TRUMP: Thank you everybody he hasn't won many friends among his cohort
but Donald Trump didn't care he stood his ground on NATO and that's seen European
countries raise their spending on defence, now meeting their two percent targets.
As for Australia... TRUMP: I have a lot of respect for australia. I love Australia as a country. After
a testy first phone call with then prime minister Malcolm Turnbull... SPICER: The president had a very cordial
conversation with prime minister Turnbull... We've largely flown under the radar with the Trump
Administration, so far under the radar there wasn't even a US ambassador here for the first two and a
half years. Riding in her majesty's Rolls-Royce was something for a farm boy from Tennessee.
TRUMP: I love Australia i always have. Greg Norman's here today, a friend of ours.
Greg Norman it seems endures where prime ministers change. TRUMP: Greg Norman is a friend of mine and a
great friend of yours i know and i think he's going to be here tonight. Beyond their shared
admiration of the great white shark, Scott Morrison and Donald Trump have formed a close relationship.
TRUMP: We'll do a deal we'll make a deal. Australia's prime minister is only one of two world leaders
given a state dinner during the Trump presidency. MORRISON: To 100 years of mateship and to a hundred more.
The other state dinner was for Emmanuel Macron. His dinner invitations,
much like his foreign policy, keeps the world guessing who's in TRUMP: i like him a
lot. Who's out of Donald Trump's favour.