8. Overall, Trump has turned the US into a supporter of war, authoritarianism, imperialism & kleptocracy & the US system has so far proven unable to block or even impede this terrible destruction of good US values. /5

7. Trump has made repeated imperialist threats to the old US allies Canada, Denmark over Greenland & Panama.
Apparently, he considers old US allies as his enemies, so don't ally yourself with the US! He will see that as a hostile act. /4

6. The main US policy is a trade war against all, especially friends, for no good reason. The US has been the great beneficiary of the post-World War II order, keeping a steady quarter of global GDP, but Trump appears too dumb to understand that. /3

4. Trump has ended all financial and arms support for Ukraine in exchange for his love fest with Putin, for which he has offered no rational explanation.
5. Trump has ended the post-World War II international order of multilateralism led by the US, denigrating the US. /2

11. Does it make any sense to negotiate anything with Trump? The man lies all the time. He behaves & talks like a mafioso. He does not stick to any agreement & is very poor at reaching any agreement.
Isn't the world better off ignoring & isolating itself from Trump? /8

9. Many of the countries on which Trump imposed his arbitrary "reciprocal" tariffs did not have a trade surplus with the US.
10. The only significant trade agreement Trump concluded in his first term was the USMCA with Canada & Mexico, but he instantly violated it. /7

7. Everything is wrong with Trump's tariffs. They are taxes that in all democratic countries are the domain of the parliament, but Trump determines them haphazardly at will.
8. Trump's tariffs are only related to his mood - Brazil, India, Canada - what a US embarrassment! /6

6. When Trump announced his unilateral & arbitrary tariffs on April 2, he falsely called them "reciprocal", but they were not mutual. They were not negotiated, but dictated by Trump. They were imposed by one man, Trump, for no apparent reason but his mood. /5

5. Trump's blatant ignorance is embarrassing for the US. This country has most of the top universities in the world & Trump is supposed to have gone through Wharton at Penn.
Are US universities really so bad? Hardly.
Why is Trump insisting on hiding all his grades?
Show them!/4

4. Trump has no basis for his persistent claims that all kinds of much smaller & weaker countries have "ripped off" the US. He can possibly make that argument against China, but not against any other country. If Trump were decent (which he is not) he would apologize. /3

2. The US has a huge services SURPLUS, which troglodyte Trump never mentions. The EU-US trade is actually balanced.
3. The US can maintain a trade deficit because foreigners have kindly financed it. If Trump had any sense - as prior US presidents - he would thank the world. /2

6. Jeff Sachs would be well advised to apologize & stop spreading exalted lies about Ukraine.
Why not criticize Russia for unjustified military aggression, the killing of hundreds of thousands people, torture, rape & kidnapping of children.
Don't tell us you support that! /6

5. All along, Ukraine has been a pretty free country, while Russia has become an ever harsher dictatorship. There was no repression in eastern Ukraine. Jeff Sachs must know that. Why not say so? /5

4. As Dan Fried points out, Ukraine's problem in 2014 was it was neutral. It had no credible security guarantees. It had been promised NATO membership in April 2008. The problem was that no road for Ukraine's path to membership was offered. NATO would have saved Ukraine. /4

Germany & France tried to impede Russian aggression, but Merkel has clarified in her memoirs how confused she was. Ukraine should not give up its sovereignty & territorial integrity that Yeltsin guaranteed in December 1991. Jeff should have remembered that. /3