Imagine, if you will, that you were invited to stay at someone’s home for the weekend, and before you even got there you were publicly insulting them on social media. Then, after you arrived, you showed up late to scheduled events, disparaged the other guests, sat huffily with your arms crossed the whole time, left the proceedings early, and shat on the front doorstep on the way out. Later, when speaking of the weekend, you remark that the host should burn in hell. Normal people—those with a passing knowledge of social norms—would infer that the whole thing had not gone well, and that your relationships with the people you called “dishonest and weak” had been damaged. And then you have the Trump administration.

According to Mike Pompeo, i.e., the U.S. government’s senior-most diplomat, nothing that transpired over the last few days, or the tariffs that preceded them, will have any effect on America’s relationships with our most important allies. “I’m very confident the relationships between our countries, the United States and those G7 countries, will continue to move forward on a strong basis,” Pompeo told reporters on Monday in Singapore. “I’m unconcerned about our capacity to continue to do what we need to do. . . . There are always irritants in relationships,” he said, which is an interesting way of putting it.

Others are feeling slightly less breezy about the situation. Simon Fraser, the former U.K. Foreign Office permanent secretary, tweeted: “Conventional wisdom is that Trump is a blip & normal service will one day be resumed. This is too complacent. The deeper, even more worrying question: are US values, priorities & interests fundamentally diverging from Europe’s? . . . We should be seriously worried by what has just happened in #G7.”

If Pompeo is unconcerned about the administration aggressively antagonizing our allies while buddying up to dictators, it might have something to do with the fact that the president’s credo, according to an official who spoke to The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, is basically Screw the world, America does what it wants:

The best distillation of the Trump Doctrine I heard . . . came from a senior White House official with direct access to the president and his thinking. I was talking to this person several weeks ago, and I said, by way of introduction, that I thought it might perhaps be too early to discern a definitive Trump Doctrine.