rip up

He has no compunction about violating treaty commitments or ripping up trade agreements, even deals he negotiated himself.

Democrats are for safe and secure borders, but not for ripping up the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which protects the citizenship of everyone born in the USA.

It would be more than a decade before he returned to parliament, where he has since sought to rip up Merkel's more centrist doctrine on CDU conservatism.

He added that it's the "second time" in less than a decade that the US has "in effect, ripped up a trade agreement with its closest trading partner".

On the in-flight television screens, Fox News was back, having replaced CNN - and the president, fresh from a week in which he upended America's government and ripped up its immigration policies, was feeling confident.