Well, Trump wants to help Americans not Irish and English citizens.
In case you hadn't noticed, the world outside the USA is much larger than inside its borders alone. A huge market for selling stuff awaits, no more.
Today, Europe and Japan signed the precursor to a new Free Trade Agreement (tomorrow the formal signing will be done by Japan's PM before the G20 meeting) as the TPP trade deal members are moving ahead without the USA, and the European Union agreed to intensify the trade relations with Cuba (567 parliamentarians voted in favor, 65 against, 31 withheld their vote), pending ratification by the member states.
And last month:
The European Union and China will boost their research and innovation cooperation with a new package of flagship initiatives targeting the areas of Food, Agriculture and Biotechnologies, Environment and Sustainable Urbanisation, Surface Transport, Safer and Greener aviation, and Biotechnologies for Environment and Human Health.
This is one of the outcomes of the 3rd EU-China Innovation Co-operation Dialogue, organised today in the margins of the 19th EU-China Summit, and co-chaired by Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, and Wan Gang, China's Minister of Science and Technology.
The train goes on, without the USA. How that helps 'Americans' escapes me.
Cheers,
Bart