"This is unprecedented"

Donald Trump's ambassador, political consigliere, and personal friend Edward T. McMullen reflects on Swiss fairness, fake news, and why the Swiss-American friendship is closer than ever.

For the past three and half years, United States Ambassador Edward T. McMullen has served as Donald Trump's eyes and ears in Bern. And as one of Trump’s closest advisors, the power broker mediated a record number of high level diplomatic meetings, including the first ever, Oval Office summit between a Swiss president and president of the United States.
Like most of the European and American press, Swiss media reveled in the “#Resistance,” bashing Trump for his outrageous online antics and unabashed populist agenda. But McMullen kept his eye on the diplomatic ball. As he tells Die Weltwoche in this exclusive exit interview, unlike American presidents before him, Trump&r ...