Foreign policy whiplash in Trump’s State of the Union

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America’s allies picked up on inconsistencies in President Trump’s State of the Union address, especially when it came to his differing attitudes toward authoritarian leaders in North Korea and Iran. New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser tells host Marco Werman some world leaders see Trump’s policies as naive, compared with hardnose dealing-making by Russia and China.

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