Trump's "What's in it for us?"

here is a button for the first part of this excellent article in Time:
The Era of American Global Leadership is Over
Trump's "America First" section regarding Ian Bremmer's article in the latest Time magazine with the baby on the cover (first 2017 edition) Title of Article "The era of American Global leadership is over. Here's what comes next. on following page.

Begin quote 2nd page of "The View".

Trump's America first approach fundamentally changes the U.S. role in the world. Trump agrees with leaders of both political parties that the U.S. is an exceptional nation, but he insists that the country cannot remain exceptional if it keeps stumbling down that path former presidents, including Republicans and Democrats have followed since the end of World War II. Washington's ambition to play the role of indispensable power allows both allies and rivals to treat U.S. Taxpayers like Chumps, he argues. Better to build a "What's in it for us?" approach to the rest of the world. This is a complete break with foreign policy establishment that Trump has worked hard to delegitimize---and which he continues to ostracize by waving off charges of Russian interference in the election and by refusing the daily intelligence briefings offered to all Presidents--elect. American Power, once a Trump card, is now a wild card. Instead of a superpower that wants to impose stability and values upon a fractious and valueless global order, the U.S. has become the single biggest source of global uncertainty.

And don't expect lawmakers to provide the traditional set of checks and balances. It's not just that the Constitution gives the President great power to conduct foreign policy. It's also that Trump has succeeded politically where his party's establishment has continuously failed, and as long as he remains popular with the party's voters, many junior Republican lawmakers will answer to their president rather than to leaders on Capitol hill. Expect Trump to use his bully pulpit with a vengeance, often at 140 characters or less (Twitter), to try to set new rules and rally the faiththful to follow his lead. As for special inerests, Trump isn't much beholden to Wall Street, Silicon Valley or Big Business, since most didn't support him. Those in the tech class, in particular are the most liberal of the U.S. business elite, and Trump's intense criticism of Apple for resisting FBI efforts to hack into cell phones used by the attackers in San Bernadino, California, previews plenty of fights to come between the Trump White House and Silicon Valley. Trump has essentially charged Big Business with treason and threatens to punish--individually-- those companies that ship jobs overseas.

He hasn't yet take the oath of office, but Trump (and Trumpism) have already begun to create turmoil abroad.

And 2nd partial quote from "The View" with Ian Bremmer from the latest and 1st 2017 Time magazine.