Amid the chaos in Nice and Turkey during his first days in office, Johnson found time to write a column for the Sunday Telegraph in which he argued that Brexit did not mean
a withdrawn global role for the UK, but a country «more outward - looking, more engaged and more active on the world stage than ever before».
At the same time, Trump has been seen
withdrawing America from its
global leadership
role, after exiting both the Paris Agreement on climate change and the Trans - Pacific Partnership.