Trump reverses on NATO, China, Russia and other campaign promises

"I don't know Putin", he said on Wednesday at the joint press conference with Mr Stoltenberg.

"I said it's obsolete", Trump said, referencing a favorite refrain.

In the space of the last week, President Donald Trump has either altered or totally reversed his views on USA involvement in Syria, Russia's friendliness (or lack thereof), China's currency manipulation, Fed chair Janet Yellen, the Export-Import Bank and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

But Trump totally changed his tune immediately after meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg yesterday.

That movement, a response to increased Russian military activity and aggression, began before Trump took office but the secretary-general said the new USA president backed the changing posture in Poland and NATO's Baltic states.

For a man known to adopt policy positions more out of convenience or circumstance than principle, Donald Trump has made a tidal wave of public reversals on major issues over the past two days - some of them bedrock campaign promises. He also said he was open to reappointing Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet L. Yellen after saying previous year that the central banker should be "ashamed" of what she was doing to the country.

Last week, Trump abandoned his longtime stance that the United States should not get involved with Syria when he approved a strike on an airbase there."I felt we had to do something about it", Trump said Wednesday of the Syria bombing. A number of member states have already increased their funding allocations in recent months.

Is this still the Trump conservatives voted for?

"This has built for a long period of time". The observation came following the airstrikes launched against Syria by the nation in retaliation for the chemical attack conducted by the latter.

On Monday, Trump signed off on the Balkan country of Montenegro becoming NATO's newest member, a move that Moscow has long opposed.

Trump's U-turn in foreign policy came amid infighting within his administration that has lately seen a decline in the influence of political operatives, mainly his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, whose former publication Breitbart News is under FBI investigation for links to Russian Federation. It seems like just over a week ago we heard that the Syrian people were going to decide their leadership.

"Right now, we're not getting along with Russian Federation at all", Trump said. "I felt pretty strongly that they had a tremendous power (over) North Korea".

Trump repeatedly trashed the Export-Import Bank of the United States on the campaign trail, lambasting it as an example of the crony capitalism that he was running against. It led the Trump dispensation to initially to allege that China is robbing the U.S blind, including accusing it of currency manipulation and dishonest trade practices, charges that the US President did not publicly confront China's President Xi with when they met in Florida last week. "We'll see how that works out".

The improving ties with Beijing were underscored when Mr Trump told the Wall Street Journal in an interview yesterday that he would not declare China a currency manipulator as he had pledged to do on his first day in office.

Recently, the United States has seen a considerable increase in the lack of global support. So Mayor Daley said, "OK, we'll pass the bill unanimously without you".