Mihir Sharma, Columnist

Trump Is a Globalist, Not a Nationalist

For a global businessman, there’s nothing inherently odd about asking foreigners for help in undermining rivals at home.

October 2, 2019 at 10:30 AM UTC

By Mihir Sharma

Mihir Sharma is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A senior fellow at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi, he is author of “Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy.”

Trump addressing the UN.
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Donald Trump says he opposes globalists. Which is odd, because he acts an awful lot like one.

Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly last week, the U.S. president insisted: “The free world must embrace its national foundations. … The future does not belong to globalists. The future belongs to patriots.”