Six months into his presidency, Mr Donald Trump crossed the Potomac River to the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. US Defence Secretary James Mattis and economic adviser Gary Cohn had prepared a comprehensive briefing on the geopolitics of the international order for the 45th President of the United States.
This meeting, detailed in Mr Bob Woodward's Fear: Trump In The White House, offers a critical insight into Mr Trump's guiding philosophy of America First.
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