After His International Tour, Donald Trump Return To Business

President Donald Trump and his wife on their descent from the plane after an international tour, May 27, 2017.

Donald Trump is back in the United States after a nine-day marathon trip to five countries. If some people feared the worst in their international debut, on the whole, it did not go too badly. But now the US president will again have to deal with cases whose intensity did not, as he hoped, diminish throughout his absence.

Last challenged in the Russian case, the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. The Washington Post revealed that it had tried in December with the Russian ambassador to establish a secret channel of communication between Washington and Moscow. An idea ridiculed by a former NSA boss, Michael Hayden, but defended by the director of the National Security Council, General McMaster. Kushner said he was ready to testify before the various commissions of inquiry and he would not be threatened for the moment.

But four other former relatives of Donald Trump are targeted by special prosecutor Robert Mueller. The White House, according to the New York Times, wants to create a "crisis communication" cell to distance the administration of the scandal.

But will it spare the president himself, suspected of having tried to stop the investigations? In this regard, the forthcoming testimony before the Congress of James Comey, the former director of the FBI, dismissed for lack of servility, could be explosive.

Successful Diplomatic Test

Donald Trump's international tour will not be enough to make the affairs that plunge the White House into crisis. A successful first trip, although the first part of the trip was more successful than the second

Feasting like a king in Saudi Arabia, Donald Trump avoided in his Riyadh speech to offend the Muslim world. On the contrary, it succeeded in forming an alliance against terrorism. The warmth of hospitality in Israel has caused Obama to forget, and Trump who made a detour through Bethlehem to see Mahmoud Abbas tried - without specifying anything specific - to revive the peace process.

Then the journey continued with a "cordial" conversation with Pope Francis. Until then, a no-fault of the American president.

But it was in Brussels and Taormina that things changed: there was a reprimand for members who do not pay their due to NATO. Old Washington complaint certainly, but unwelcome for a first contact with the allies. Finally, in Sicily, Trump played the spoils by refusing to tell the G7 whether or not it would respect the Paris agreement. At the end of this trip, some commentators note that Trump paradoxically now has a better image in the Middle East than in Europe.

Angela Merkel does not mince words about Donald Trump

"The whole climate discussion has been unsatisfactory". Angela Merkel did not mince words at the end of the G7 summit to underscore her disappointment in terms uncommon diplomatic that rarely occur at such international meetings.

The former Minister of the Environment of Chancellor Kohl has engaged in the past on climate issues and could not hide his disappointment. Not only was it not possible to snatch a compromise on this back to US President Donald Trump, but his announcement on Twitter, without first informing his partners, that he would take position next week on the deal Of Paris on the climate, is an affront to the other members of the G7 but especially to Angela Merkel. The German Chancellor hoped to gain time to persuade Donald Trump to review his rejection of the Paris agreement by the G20 summit in early July in Hamburg.

The host of the encounter may well in a few days have to bury his very slim hopes of making Donald Trump stick. Angela Merkel, who in the past had shown through her talents as negotiators during difficult international discussions, would be deprived of a breakthrough on this issue.