Obama’s Final Foreign Trip Billed as ‘Group Therapy’ for World Leaders


The global elites didn’t get their way last week. Hillary Clinton was supposed to be the next president of the United States. Instead, they got Donald Trump, a man threatening the global power structures they have spent decades forming. Apparently, they’re not taking the development well.

President Obama will depart Monday on his final foreign trip of his presidency — and the main topic of the three-country tour is expected to be President-elect Donald Trump.

“We certainly expect that the election will be the primary topic on people’s minds everywhere we go,” deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The president will travel to Athens on Monday, then to Berlin on Wednesday and finally Lima, Peru, on Friday. He’s expected to return to Washington, DC, on Sunday.

In addition to meeting Greek and German leaders, Obama will meet with President Francois Hollande of France, President Mariano Rajoy of Spain, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi of Italy and Prime Minister Theresa May of the United Kingdom.

“In a moment of deep shock and depression in Europe — the US was not supposed to elect Donald Trump — this visit has become a kind of group therapy by which European leaders will try to reassure themselves that the America we know won’t disappear,” Josef Joffe, a Stanford University scholar, told the Journal.

Alas, the America they know might disappear. Obama’s America was a weak, feckless nation unwilling to be a leader on the world stage. Trump’s incarnation of the country will be anything but.

Source: NY Post



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