President Donald Trump’s threats against foreign countries appear to be working.
In the past few days, Mexico and Canada have reached an agreement with the U.S. that paused Trump’s planned 25 percent import tariffs on the countries, Panama has distanced itself from China and Denmark has signaled a willingness to allow more U.S. military presence on the coveted island of Greenland.
Trump has risked sparking diplomatic crises and economic turmoil with his threats of tariffs and talk of purchasing foreign land aimed at countries in North and Central America and in Europe.
The White House said in a statement that recent events show that Trump is already “winning again on the world stage” in the first few weeks of his second term.
Denny Salas, a political strategist and senior vice president at New York-based Gotham Government Relations, told Newsweek that Trump was using “American strength to reclaim the lost relevance caused by the inertia” of previous administrations.
“This country has suffered because we haven’t utilized …