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Welcome to left, right and center, everybody.

I'm David Green.

So President Trump and his administration

have a whole lot to say about foreign leaders and the way they run their countries, right?

We hear this admiration for leaders like Vladimir Putin, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,

also Saudi royalty. We hear admonishment for liberal Canadian leaders, the European Union, and also traditional U.S. adversaries like China and Venezuela.

Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, called President Nicholas Maduro illegitimate in a press conference late last week, referring to the leader of Venezuela.

But to close this year, I thought we might want to

turn the lens back on the United States and focus on how other countries might see us,

our country, and our leaders, you know, the image that we are sending to the global community

about a year now into Trump's second term. How does the rest of the world see America?

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