Five letters grabbed the headlines over and over again in Germany this week: T-R-U-M-P. And after spending a day in Berlin at the "T20" – an event designed to bring ideas for solutions to global problems to the G20, one overriding takeaway emerged: The American president is driving other countries to clarify their ideas about the importance of globalization and governance in ways that he likely never imagined and Washington never intended.
America may have been one of the founders of the G20, but the band sounds ready to move on without its lead vocalist – or at least to hum a different harmony while the United States sings its own tune.