Advice for Trump from Europe

London

US President Donald Trump, this week on the European leg of his first international tour, might like to take some local advice on how to rescue his presidency from the maelstrom into which it appears to be descending.

He was in Brussels on Thursday for a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) summit before travelling to Sicily for a meeting of the G-7 industrial countries.

On his stops in Saudi Arabia and Israel, Mr Trump will have earned some welcome respite from his travails at home.

And he will have seen first hand the respect with which the holder of his office is treated in pivotal parts of the world. A president seemingly out of control, and beset by spiralling allegations of political and judicial malfeasance, is of little use to anyone. Buoyed perhaps by a week away from Washington, Mr Trump will have had time to refle…