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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Jonathan Yerushalmy

Morality, military might and a sense of mischief: key takeaways from Trump’s New York Times interview

Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
Donald Trump has held a wide-ranging interview with the New York Times, covering everything from Venezuela’s future, to Taiwan’s independence. Photograph: Yuri Gripas/EPA

Just days after launching an unprecedented operation in Venezuela to seize its president and effectively take control of its oil industry, Donald Trump sat down with New York Times journalists for a wide-ranging interview that took in international law, Taiwan, Greenland and weight-loss drugs.

The president, riding high on the success of an operation that has upended the rules of global power, spoke candidly and casually about the new world order he appears eager to usher in; an order governed not by international norms or long-lasting alliances, but national strength and military power.

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