Irish Examiner view: We need to prepare now for Donald Trump's warnings

US president warned 'America is going to take back a lot of what was stolen from it by other countries'

Speaker of the US house of representatives Mike Johnson, US president Donald Trump, and Taoiseach Micheál Martin on the steps of the US Capitol after attending the Friends of Ireland luncheon in Washington DC. Picture: Niall Carson/PA

Taoiseach Micheál Martin visited the White House yesterday and emerged unscathed, more or less, after meeting with US president Donald Trump.

It is not so long since such a sentence would have been unthinkable, but here we are.