Authors: Map – Jędrzej Błaszczak, Analysis – Jakub Graca, gathering of danch – Ksawery Stawiński
In the first year of his second word Donald Trump made 8 abroad trips, including 4 to Europe, 2 to the mediate East, 1 to Canada and 1 in the Indo-Pacific region.
A large part of the meetings held at that time by Trump took place on American land – primarily in Washington (a fewer twelve conversations), but besides in Mar-a-Lago, Florida (e.g. with Robert Fico and erstwhile with Benjamin Netanyahu) and in 1 case in Alaska (with Vladimir Putin). The leader who visited Trump the most times was Netanyahu (six), and Volodymyr Zelenski (four).
These trips and meetings, as well as the frequency of telephone conversations with individual leaders, do not necessarily reflect the priorities expressed in the US National safety strategy of late 2025, where the Western Hemisphere is number one, in the second Asia (understood as Indo-Pacific), in the 3rd Europe, and only further the mediate East and at the end of Africa. For example, Trump never erstwhile met with Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum, and with Brazilian president Luiz Lula da Silva he only briefly saw himself in the shells of the ASEAN summit in October. He spoke to Mark Carney himself respective times (largely due to Canada's membership of G7 and NATO, although Carney besides visited the White home twice) and to his close thought Javier Milei (US-Argentina's coverage behind Trump grew closer). Planned for December 2025 in the Dominican Republic, the summit of the States of both Americas, in which the president of the United States might have taken part, was postponed for another year. Marco Rubio is primarily liable for diplomacy in Latin America and the Caribbean, for which he is predisposed, among others, to his origin and cognition of Spanish.
On the Asian episode Trump met with his counterparts from all major allied and partner states: Japan (both with erstwhile Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru in Washington, D.C., and his successor Takaichi Sanae, and with Emperor Naruhito during his visit to Tokyo), South Korea (only in late October during a visit to Gyeongju, as the situation in Korea was unstable for many months after being removed from the authority of the erstwhile president), India, Australia, Philippines and ASEAN states. There was besides a first gathering with Xi Jinping at the end of October in Busan, South Korea, and another 2 meetings of US and Chinese leaders are scheduled for 2026.
On the European section Trump was very active in the first year, mostly on 3 levels. The first was the negotiation of a fresh trade agreement between the US and the European Union, which was signed in July by Trump and president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen at Trump's property in Scotland. The second plane of action so far has been ineffective attempts to end the war in Ukraine; in this area only a fewer talks were held during Trump's individual meetings in Europe, and most of them took place either during European leaders' visits to Washington or remotely. (Only a gathering with Putin took place unexpectedly in Alaska). The 3rd plane was NATO relations, where the main subject was the increase in defence spending by all alliance states, announced at the Hague Alliance Summit in June. The only bilateral visit made by Trump to Europe was a September state visit to the UK, whose subject was to meet King Charles III. On the another hand, the only visit previously not planned was Trump's participation in the ceremony of Pope Francis I in April (so far Trump has not met, nor has he even spoken by telephone, with new, American-born Pope Leon XIV).
Exceptionally active, disproportionately compared to the list of U.S. priorities, was Trump in the mediate East section, and primarily in 2 areas. The first active security: during the first year, the US armed forces undertook a number of interventions in the region aimed at stopping Iran and combating its influence throughout the mediate East (the most crucial intervention was the bombing of Iran's atomic installations in June). 47. The US president besides led to the conclusion of the armed conflict in the Gaza Strip by signing in October in Sharm al-Sheik in the presence of respective twelve leaders (mainly European and mediate east countries) an agreement implementing the alleged "peace plan" for Gaza. The second area of activity in the mediate East theatre was the improvement of relations with selected arabian countries – during a visit to the region in May Trump visited Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United arabian Emirates, where a number of contracts and declarations of cooperation were signed in selected subjects (technology, weapons or sales of Boeing aircraft). The value of these contracts, if implemented, could scope from respective 100 billion to even respective trillion dollars.
It is besides worth mentioning the unobvious directions of diplomacy. Firstly, Trump was active in the mediation between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and although his actual function in bringing about the inactive unimplemented peace agreement is the subject of a dispute, it was, however, formally signed in Washington by the Presidents of both States afraid in the presence of Trump. Second, Trump took president Cyril Ramaphosa in the White home in May, who he humiliated publically by showing him recordings and photographs allegedly to attest to the persecution of the white population in South Africa, which there is no clear evidence. Thirdly, Trump held a gathering in the White home in August with Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikola Pasynian, during which a tripartite declaration of willingness to proceed efforts was signed to negociate a full peace agreement between Baku and Yerevan. Fourth, in November, a C5+1 summit was held in Washington, D.C., or 5 Central Asian states (Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan) and the United States. As a consequence of the meeting, a number of papers have been signed, the importance of which is now hard to assess, all the more so since they stay on the margins of global diplomatic efforts for the US.
