But suddenly, a deeply wounded president may be ill-equipped to hold any feet to the fire in critical crises of his own making on three continents. Then comes Wolffe's description of Trump that seems to resonate across Europe: a leader with "a delusional sense of power." In Germany, where there has been no love lost between Trump and Chancellor Angela Merkel, the leading daily Süddeutsche Zeitung headlined : "Ticking time bombs for Trump." At the same time, Mexican and US officials were due to resume their trade talks in Washington on Wednesday after a day's postponement. But trade is not the only issue that requires an American president in full command of the levers of power available to him.

Source: CNN August 22, 2018 14:48 UTC