"Krone" analysis

How Trump stages foreign policy as reality TV

Those who stick to Trump's script will be rewarded by the US president.(Bild: EPA)

The world should watch how Donald Trump staged himself as a strong man - and how he humiliated an ally in front of the cameras. Krone+ analyzes why the US president is staging foreign policy as a reality event.

"This is going to be great television, I can tell you that." They were perhaps the truest words Donald Trump said during his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenskyj in the Oval Office. Trump knows television. He knows how to attract attention, how to create outrage, how to turn any event into a show. And that is exactly what this meeting was: a staged escalation, a spectacle that served one purpose above all - Donald Trump himself.