Having backed Trump's vicious and inaccurate rhetoric about NATO and European countries, his Cabinet members now look like discarded puppets as Trump suddenly dropped his demands regarding an American takeover of Greenland and has eliminated his threats to impose crippling tariffs on those countries.
The Secretaries of Defense, State, Treasury and Commerce are especially diminished, as are numerous Republican members of Congress who refused to speak up as Trump ridiculed our Allies. One wonders if they will learn from their international embarrassment or continue to support Trump's outrageous and demented whims.
Meanwhile, despite Trump's reversal, we have lost the trust of our European Allies and will not be able to rebuild it until another Administration takes over in Washington.
