I was Brit ambassador under two US presidents – what strongman Trump’s return as president will mean for America
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DONALD Trump shocked the globe by becoming the leader of the Free World but a former British Ambassador has revealed what America could have in store for his second term. Sir Nigel Sheinwald - who served under George Bush and Barack Obama - told The Sun how the president-elect could inject himself into a world that has become more deadly and fraught since he left The White House.
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Trump is no stranger to the president’s office but predicting his next four years has been difficult, as the murderous regimes of Putin and Iran get stronger and the American public becomes evermore divided. Sheinwald revealed how Trump’s unpredictable behaviour could be a strong asset to “get things done”.
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“There hasn’t been a president of any kind, of any party like Donald Trump and that isn’t going to change," Sir Sheinwald told The Sun. “There may be a higher determination to get things done. He has a view about why certain things didn’t work out as well as he might have liked in the first term.”.
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A tyrannical war in Ukraine, bloody unrest in the Middle East, and China’s growing influence in world politics and technology, have all crept in since his last shot at commander-in-chief. “Trump has the capacity to inject a sort of peace virus into these very troublesome situations,” the former ambassador said.
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“Maybe that’s a good thing because American power - as you’ve seen with Biden - by itself hasn’t always found it very easy to make an impact. “It wasn’t enough in Ukraine and it certainly wasn’t enough in the case of the Middle East, where America was torn between its different priorities.
![[Ambassador Nigel Sheinwald presenting credentials to President George W. Bush in the Oval Office.]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/01/ambassador-nigel-sheinwald-united-kingdom-964424996.jpg?strip=all&w=600)
