US President Donald Trump usually makes no effort to disguise how little he cares about human rights, Gary J Bass writes for The New York Times, criticizing displayed support for Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi. “Instead of viewing human rights as a universal ideal, Mr. Trump invokes them only strategically, when they are useful as a geopolitical cudgel,” Bass writes. He adds that now it “falls to more decent democratic leaders — including Angela Merkel of Germany, Emmanuel Macron of France, Moon Jae-in of South Korea and Justin Trudeau of Canada — to champion freedom. The United States has sidelined itself from being taken seriously about human rights by electing Mr. Trump, and its global reputation will not begin to recover until he is sent packing.”