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Trump's trip ends with few prizes, little consensus on goals

Ongoing FBI probes into his campaign further limit his ability to rally world leaders

Published Sun, Jul 9, 2017 · 09:50 PM

Washington

AHEAD of his first G-20 summit, US President Donald Trump took to Twitter to weigh in on his concerns.

From bad trade deals ("the worst") to North Korea's nuclear ambitions ("this nonsense") to steel dumping ("don't like"), he highlighted what he had hit head-on in Hamburg.

The problem for him is that he comes home from the Group-of-20 summit with little concrete progress on those issues, while the differences between himself and the rest of the world are greater than ever.

Mr Trump got lectured on trade by China and France and won platitudes …

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