The cease-fire in Gaza this week marked the first achievement for Donald Trump before returning to office, critics believe. AP. At least that’s what Team Trump wants us to believe.

Conflicting monetary goals and budget constraints will undermine the administration's ability to exert influence from a position of strength "Speak softly and carry a big stick", a phrase ...

Trump’s approach mirrors President Theodore Roosevelt’s famous dictum: “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” His diplomacy is pragmatic and guided by hard realities — qualities that the ...

Trump diplomacy: Carry a big stick and drag your knuckles . Feb. 4, 2025 at 9:49 am Updated Feb. 4, 2025 at 10:49 am . By . David Horsey. Seattle Times cartoonist.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump in his first week back in the White House has offered an early preview to his second-term foreign policy approach: Talk loudly and wield a big stick.

In a classic case of “hit ’em with a big stick, then dangle the carrot” diplomacy, President Donald Trump has agreed to delay the 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico for one month after a ...

Walter Russell Mead’s argument that diplomacy must be underpinned by a robust military is exactly right (“Biden’s Diplomatic Magical Thinking,” Global View, Sept. 24). At the U.S. Naval ...

There's a palpable hope that his tariff strategy might lean toward “Big Stick Tariff Diplomacy" rather than a carte blanche approach. This more civil start to President Trump's second term has ...

Vance’s ‘diplomacy’ quote points to problem with any Trump-Putin calls. Trump himself has long criticized shadow diplomacy with hostile foreign countries as wrong and even illegal.