It only matters to the extent that people might listen to what the president of the USA has to say - which would kind of depend on whether he has any credibility at all on the subject. Which Trump himself really doesn't.

Pompeo is an evangelical as well. Personally I'm a nominal Catholic, so not a particular fan of evangelicals or anything, but it does seem rather strange for you to prefer people who clearly aren't religious over devout Christians of another denomination. Seems like the kind of thing that maybe you could afford a century or two ago, but not so much anymore today.

As I said in the subject line, not sure how this proclamation qualifies as an action. And if you look at it from a somewhat wider view, his administration's wider efforts to promote religious freedom globally, I will say that they do deserve some measure of credit for it, including for their attention to what China has been doing to the Uyghurs, but that's more despite Trump than thanks to him. His execrable international reputation has definitely made that campaign less influential than it otherwise could have been - to stick with the example of the Uyghurs, those criticisms would've been rather more credible if they hadn't come only at the time when Trump started looking for a stick to beat China with, after his sucking up to them turned out not to work too well.

If you want to compare him to every other president, well, at least in the past century or so, every other president carried a certain weight on the international stage, people abroad listened to what the president of the USA had to say. Trump has made such a mockery of the office that now people abroad are more inclined to do the opposite of whatever he pushes for, if they can be bothered to listen at all. George W Bush wasn't exactly popular abroad either, but it wasn't anywhere near as bad as this - because at least he showed up and took his job seriously.

Mostly B, yes.

Heh.

But what's the point of publishing it in his name? Religious freedom has been Pence's and Pompeo's thing - whether people like them or not (and, surprise surprise, I don't), there's no reason to doubt their interest in the issue and they could've written something like this. And unlike Trump, they are taken seriously by foreign audiences, up to a point.