With Donald Trump the almost-certain Republican Party nominee for president – and given his lead against Democratic incumbent Joe Biden in most national polls – two broad camps are emerging among global leaders on who they'd like to see in White House a year from now.
A Trump victory in November would likely result in widespread and dramatic changes in the global order – from changing the nature of the U.S.’s relationship with NATO allies, Ukraine, and Israel to the tariffs that govern international trade, worldwide refugee policies and to multilateral efforts to combat climate change.
Trump, president from 2016 to 2019, is a world-class disrupter, and the pro-Trump camp among global leaders is large and filled with like-minded figures. Among them are three leaders often seen as their country’s version of Trump: Argentina’s newly-elected Javier Milei, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and Geert Wilders, the leader of the right-wing coalition in the Netherlands.
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is paying homage to Trump in his campaign style that includes a hardline refugee policy and other topics that differentiate him from his political rivals.