The fourth episode, Trump’s World Continued, is about the foreign policy strategies, beliefs, and power plays shaping the US Republican camp and the second Trump Administration.

 As mentioned previously in this podcast, President Trump’s first mandate was formally guided - at least initially - by what he called ‘principled realism’, which emphasised a foreign policy driven by outcomes, not ideology, yet balanced by Western and Republican principles. By contrast, his second mandate appears to be void, at least for now and on the surface, of any attempt at wrapping his foreign policy with any grand theories.

Instead, President Trump invokes ‘America First’ as his only guiding principle, yet this only tells us so much, so this episode looks closer into the competing schools of thought within the Republican camp and within Trump’s second administration,and at the President himself, to try and explain the drivers behind his first 100 days in office and what may come next.