As the confrontation with North Korea deepens, Donald Trump is confronting doubts about his leadership at home and abroad that are almost unprecedented for a US president during a time of international crisis. …
Given the underlying questions about his leadership, Trump faces the real risk that his belligerent “fire and fury” language — even if intended to create pressure for negotiations, as some experts believe — may be unsettling the public in the US and its key allies more than it rattles mercurial North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. CONT.
Ronald Brownstein, CNN