Is Trump the biggest global risk? | Ian Bremmer's Quick Take

In his latest Quick Take, Ian Bremmer calls the United States under President Trump the dominant driver of global political risk, but argues that the world is increasingly pushing back. Subscribe to GZERO's YouTube channel and turn on notifications (🔔):    / @gzeromedia   Sign up for GZERO's free newsletters on global politics: https://www.gzeromedia.com/subscribe He says that a more unilateral and transactional US foreign policy, combined with efforts to reduce institutional checks, has driven outsized global uncertainty over the past year and a half. Ian points to escalating tariffs and the US-China standoff as an early example, noting Washington “effectively putting a boycott on the Chinese” before pulling back after economic and political pressure. He also highlights Iran, where escalation and the shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz forced the US to “back down,” underscoring limits to American coercive power. While Ian expects continued disruption from the United States, he says growing domestic and international constraints will make it harder for Trump to fundamentally reshape the global system. Keep up with global news and why it matters. Follow GZERO! X: https://x.com/gzeromedia Instagram:   / gzeromedia   PUPPET REGIME on Instagram:   / realpuppetregime   TikTok:   / gzeromedia   LinkedIn:   / gzeromedia   Facebook:   / gzeromedia   Threads: https://threads.net/@gzeromedia Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/gzeromedia.com GZERO World on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... GZERO World on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/13QW2sL... GZERO Media, a Eurasia Group company, is a multimedia publisher providing news, insights, and commentary on the events shaping our world. Our properties include GZERO World with Ian Bremmer, our weekly show on US public television; our newsletters GZERO Daily, GZERO AI, GZERO North, and GZERO Daily with Ian Bremmer; our parody series Puppet Regime; our digital video series including Ian Bremmer's Quick Take every week; and the GZERO World Podcast. Our content is free and available at https://www.gzeromedia.com/. #trump #tariffs #economy #china #iran #republicans #democrats #quicktake