The French foreign minister accuses the American president of furthering a "divorce" between the United States and its European allies.
"Deep Trade Rift With Allies Seen" is a New York Timesheadline. "The Roots of Western Disunity" is the headline over another New York Timespiece observing, "Over the last few years, trans-Atlantic differences on foreign policy have become so frequent that most of us regard them as the normal state of affairs."
[Editor's Note: A near version of the following was sent to The Boston Globe, which to date hasn't published it. It is published here for the first time.]
