Billionaire Elon Musk is not the only friendly piece falling out of US President Donald Trump’s chessboard. He has lost way more friends abroad.

Europeans — even many in the Right — dislike him. The Japanese, one of the US’s closest allies, have recently railed against “American extortionists" after Trump unleashed a tariff war. Israel is seething quietly after Trump started talking about being close to a ‘deal’ with Iran. Canada deeply resents being called a colony of the US.

Indians had widely cheered Trump’s second coming. They even endured the absurd tariffs in the spirit that the US President is entitled to out his nation’s interests first. But there is now a great sense of betrayal after Trump’s narcissistic trumpeting for mediation during the latest India-Pakistan skirmish and then reserving high praise for Pakistan.

The Trump family’s crypto-currency investments in Pakistan have apparently worked wonders. World Liberty Financial (WLF), founded in 2024, is 60 per cent owned by Donald Trump’s sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr, along with his son-in-law Jared Kushner. WLF founder Zachary Witkoff is the son of real estate tycoon and longtime Trump friend Steve Witkoff and now serves as a US special envoy. The Pakistan agreement reportedly marks WLF’s most important international venture to date.

Pakistan’s investment deal with Donald Trump’s family-linked crypto........

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