I think Donald Trump should take some advice from one of his learned predecessors. Here are some quotes from Jimmy Carter:
“We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”
“We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.”
“We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.”
With specific reference to The Panama Canal, but with implications for any situation where two countries have competing interests: “the commitment of the United States to the belief that fairness, not force, should lie at the heart of our dealings with the nations of the world. If any agreement is to last, it must serve the best interests of both nations.”
Trump hasn’t reached the end of his presidency yet, but most quotes I find made by him are don’t have anywhere near the grace and insight of Jimmy Carter. Trump does generally come across as an insensitive, argumentative, crass, brute.