{"id":294483,"date":"2025-11-20T01:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/294483\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T01:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:52:13","slug":"trump-uniquely-consistent-for-decades-singapores-vivian-balakrishnan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/294483\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump \u2018uniquely consistent for decades\u2019: Singapore\u2019s Vivian Balakrishnan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Singapore<\/a>\u2019s top diplomat said on Wednesday that United States<\/a> President Donald Trump<\/a> had held the same views on free trade<\/a> and immigration for decades, despite being widely seen as erratic and among the most unpredictable of American leaders.<\/p>\n

Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan was responding at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum to a question on how his country would navigate Trump\u2019s less consistent, more freewheeling and unilateralist approach.<\/p>\n

Balakrishnan pointed to a 1988 interview with American host Oprah Winfrey in which Trump said that other countries were living like kings while the US was not, and the American people were \u201ctired of seeing the United States ripped off\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump as a person, in fact, has been uniquely consistent for decades \u2026 And I think people don\u2019t give enough marks for that. So he is consistent, it\u2019s just that his methodology, his presentation, is somewhat novel, and people react to that.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut my point is, American policy under President Trump, in fact, is reflecting [his] long-held, deep convictions,\u201d the Singapore minister said.<\/p>\n

He explained that it was unusual in human history to have a benign hegemon like the United States and that it was reasonable for the American voter to question why the country should underwrite a system, under which the rest of the world, and especially a big competitor, seemed to have \u201cprofited\u201d from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singapore\u2019s top diplomat said on Wednesday that United States President Donald Trump had held the same views on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5806,45,49,48,95,46,15674,890,44,927,22429,457,61,182,3275],"class_list":["post-294483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-asia","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-economy","tag-hong-kong","tag-lifestyle","tag-news","tag-opinion","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-sport","tag-technology","tag-us","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}