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US Presidents often reverse foreign policy; how will Trump handle setbacks?

Trump might be unwilling to re-evaluate policy choices when outside evidence contradicts his original cost-benefit analysis

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Charles Hermann | The Conversation

The United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, according to a May 8 announcement by President Donald Trump. The decision reverses a hardwon agreement that President Barack Obama negotiated with European allies, Russia, Iran and other nations in 2015.

This is hardly Trump’s first foreign policy turnaround.

The president plans to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, something no sitting U.S. president has ever done. He also scrapped the Trans-Pacific Partnership, relocated the American embassy in Israel