The call with President Tsai Ing-wen risks infuriating China, which wants to bring Taiwan back under mainland rule. By honoring the Taiwanese president with a formal call, Mr. Trump’s transition team implicitly suggests that it considers Taiwan an independent state. The U.S. has declined to recognize Taiwan since 1979, when it shifted recognition to the government in Beijing. Taiwan itself has yet to declare formal independence. Mr. Trump tweeted, “The President of Taiwan CALLED ME today to wish me congratulations on winning the Presidency.”

The Times also complained about Trump’s talks with populist President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines – no doubt because he once called the Times’ beloved Barack Obama a “son of a bitch”; Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe because he had his daughter, Ivanka, with him rather than the Left-wing ideologues installed by Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry at the State Department; the strongman president of Kazakhstan; and for accepting an invitation to speak to Pakistani President Nawaz Sharif…and so on.

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Again and again throughout the campaign cycle, the idiots who inhabit the mainstream media – those self-righteous, arrogant, self-anointed purveyors of propaganda – missed every opportunity to see Trump coming and understand why he was doing so well with the American electorate. But they failed because they refused to accept him as a legitimate contender for the crown, so to speak. The failure will continue throughout his presidency, making it epic. Trump has not, and will never, fit the “mold” they have created for modern American politicians. He’s not one, and while he’ll have to learn some nuances of the job of being leader of the free world, anyone who understands Trump knows the presidency isn’t going to fundamentally change who he is and how he operates.