Three days into President Donald Trump’s subsequent expression, the president leveraged some of the country’s closest allies to reach trade agreements while also inviting people to visit the White House.
Trump is scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, along with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who will visit the White House on Friday. He also has agreements with Mexico and Canada to defer the taxes he has imposed on the nations for 30 time.  ,
Netanyahu’s conference with Trump will mark his first meeting with a universe president since returning to Washington after his inauguration next month.
According to Richard Goldberg, top adviser to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Netanyahu’s presence at Trump’s first foreign head of state or federal meet at the White House “is a strong message to both shared enemies and shared supposed friends.”
” The greatest communication is one of relationship and unification being sent to Iran and its proxies — a significant departure from]former President Joe Biden‘s ] administration, which encouraged Egyptian escalation by showing distance between Washington and Jerusalem”, Goldberg, a former Trump national security secretary, told the Washington Examiner. ” When you think about the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, or places like Ireland, South Africa, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Spain, which are at the edge of the weapon of lawfare against the United States and Israel, all countries are being put on see”.
According to AIPAC official Marshall Wittmann, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee applauded Netanyahu’s White House meet as” a clear indication of the importance of the U.S. Israel relationship as the two friends work together to develop both countries and address difficulties posed by Iran and its proxies.”
But the meeting, which comes amid Trump’s negotiations regarding tariffs against Canada, Mexico, and China, coincides with the ongoing but fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas after the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks.
After 16 months of conflict, tensions have persisted in the Middle East and among respective supporters and detractors in the United States, despite the ceasefire agreement having been extended since it was signed in Biden’s administration with support from Trump’s transition team.
In addition to Israel’s withdrawal from most of Gaza and an increase in humanitarian aid, phase one of the ceasefire agreement also saw the release of 33 Israeli hostages and more Palestinian prisoners. It will expire on February 18. The release of younger Israeli male hostages and Israel’s agreement to end the war are expected to be the second stage. The third phrase would mark the end of the war, with bodies being exchanged, Israel withdrawing from Gaza completely, and the reconstruction of the enclave beginning.
Danielle Pletka, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for foreign and defense, predicted that Netanyahu would pressure Trump to continue the first phase rather than the second phase, which Hamas and Qatar‘s mediators had suggested.
Before considering the future of Gaza, Pletka told the Washington Examiner,” He wants to keep his coalition together and get more hostages.” Trump will want to talk about his plan to deport Palestinians from Gaza. And they’ll both want to talk about restarting Israeli-Saudi rapprochement”.
Trump continued to say he had no “assurances” that the ceasefire” will hold” as he signed executive orders at the White House on Monday, responding to questions from reporters.
” I mean, I’ve seen people brutalized. Before he appeared to be open to Netanyahu’s annexing of the West Bank, he said in the Oval Office, “nobody has ever seen anything like it.”
Trump’s first two weeks in the White House were predominated by domestic policy, but he also withdrew the United States from international agreements and organizations like the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization and gave birth to a race with China to develop the technology.
The president also appeared via video link during last month’s World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, where he said the U. S. would be” stronger” and “wealthier” as a result of his policy agenda.
Trump stated at the meeting that his country would soon be stronger, wealthier, and more united than ever, and that the world would be more peaceful and prosperous as a result of this incredible momentum and what we’re doing and going to do. He also explained that he would be asking NATO members to increase their defense spending from 2 % of GDP to 5 %.
That was before last weekend’s pivot toward tariffs after Trump’s promise to impose duties on Canada, Mexico, and China, on Day One slipped into Day 15 and before he provided Canada and Mexico with a monthlong delay.
On Monday, Canada and Mexico both agreed to take additional measures to combat drug trafficking and illegal immigration at their respective borders.
” Canada will implement their$ 1.3 billion Border plan, and as per Prime Minister] Justin ] Trudeau, will be reinforcing the Border with new choppers, technology and personnel, enhanced coordination with our American partners, and increased resources to stop the flow of fentanyl”, Trump wrote on social media. ” Nearly 10, 000 frontline personnel are, and will be, working on protecting the Border”.
Mexico announced its own troop deployment, but Trudeau additionally committed to appointing a fentanyl czar, designating drug cartels as terrorists, and creating a Canada-U. S. Joint Strike Force.
For Steve Kamin, an American Enterprise Institute senior fellow who researches trade policy, Trump’s tariff policies were underpinned by the president’s desire to underscore “his power, and his ability to wield power, and his willingness to wield power”.
” The markets tanked, but then they started to recover”, Kamin told the Washington Examiner. They are using each of these instances where the other nation retracts as proof that the Trump tariffs may not be as severe as they believe.
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Trump’s pivot to foreign policy will continue with meetings later this month with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer next week.
Since the start of the second term, Trump has spoken with numerous other heads of state or government, mostly from the Middle East, including Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, Bahraini King Hamad Bin Isa al Khalifa, and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia.
