“America First.“As soon as he arrived at the White House in 2017, Donald Trump hammered home his credo on the international scene. By the brutality of his postures and decisions, he shocked his interlocutors, including the Europeans, historical allies of the United States. The president flouts all the diplomatic rules at the time of the summits. Withdrawal of the Paris agreement on the climate, endangering NATO, an institution which crosses, according to Jeremy Hunt, the British Minister for Foreign Affairs at the time, “the biggest crisis in its history“… Still surprised, François Hollande remembers his first telephone conversation with him:”What he told me was in one sentence: ‘We don’t want to pay for you anymore. […] Europeans have to pay for their own security ‘.“Breaking the status quo, the American president is getting closer to Vladimir Putin, a proximity which worries the leaders of the G7. And if, during the parade of July 14, Emmanuel Macron, who invited him, deploys the great means to please him, François Hollande warns him: “Don’t expect anything from Donald Trump, don’t think it will be possible to get around him or seduce him.”
Privileged backstage
Through the story of key actors and witnesses, this investigation penetrates into the heart of the summits and international negotiations of the Trump mandate, offering the rare and joyful privilege of following them behind the scenes. Meticulously reconstructing history in the footsteps of the leaders, according to the proven method of Brook Lapping productions, this documentary series, which recalls the belching of the American president beaten by Joe Biden last November and the amazement, at best amused, of those to which they are addressed, also lays bare the flaws in diplomacy and the fragility of planetary balances. Because the counterparts of Donald Trump and the armada of his advisers (including those he prides himself on having thanked, even if they have resigned) also tell of their inability to control a head of state who intends to lead his country – and imprint the world with his ignorant mark at the risk of peace – as he has managed his empire, sure that almost anything is allowed.
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