section_path: Second presidency (2025–present)/Foreign policy, 2025–present
section_name: Foreign policy, 2025–present
paragraph_text: Foreign policy, 2025–present
  
  Trump's second term foreign policy has been variously described as imperialist, expansionist, isolationist, and autarkist, employing the " America First " ideology as its cornerstone. His relations with allies were transactional and ranged from indifference to hostility, including threats of annexation. He ordered the U.S. government to stop funding and working with the WHO and announced the U.S.'s intention to formally leave the WHO.
  
  Trump and his incoming administration helped broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas alongside the Biden administration, enacted a day prior to his inauguration. In March, Israel broke the ceasefire.
  
  In February 2025, Trump and Vice President Vance met with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, in the Oval Office. The meeting, which was televised live, was highly contentious as Trump and Vance berated Zelenskyy. Media outlets described it as an unprecedented public confrontation between an American president and a foreign head of state.
  
  Trump's economic policies have been described as protectionist, with Trump imposing tariffs on most countries, including large tariffs on major trading partners China, Canada, and Mexico. Economists argued that the administration misunderstood the relationship between trade deficits and tariffs, using flawed assumptions. He suspended American financial contributions to the World Trade Organization.