Last week, Donald Trump met with a world leader who had compared him to Mussolini and Hitler. Tuesday, President Obama canceled a meeting with Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte for calling him names.

Trump’s meeting, with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, was respectful, substantive, and led to a productive discussion on policies that would benefit the American and Mexican people.

“When a president says he won’t start any new wars, that sounds like a great Miss America platform, but it’s not a national security criterion.”

By most accounts, Trump pulled off the unthinkable to the Beltway pundits: He looked presidential and diplomatic, meeting with the leader of a nation whose migrant-export problem has become the centerpiece of Trump’s foreign policy.

“NeverTrump” pundits on the conservative side, from Stephen Hayes to Charles Krauthammer, all took note of the Republican presidential candidate’s new foreign policy bona fides.

Compare that to this week’s news — President Obama’s canceled presidential meeting Tuesday with Filipino President Duterte.

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Duterte apparently did not want to hear any lectures on a recent spate of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines and reportedly called Obama a “son of a b***h.”

Obama, already in Asia for a G20 meeting, then told aides to reschedule the meeting and “make sure if I’m having a meeting, it’s productive and we’re getting something done.” It was an odd way to treat a problem: avoidance, rather than assertiveness.

To some political and foreign policy experts, it’s more of the same from Obama, whose administration has had problems dealing with increasingly unfriendly foreign leaders.

“This was not a very successful trip by any stretch of the imagination,” said Dr. Michael Auslin, resident scholar and director of Japan Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. “There’s not a lot [of accomplishment] to point to. This is not how [Obama] wanted to go out.”

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Auslin said Obama had trouble smoothing relations with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, China’s Xi Jinping, and, of course, Duterte.

In the South China Sea, for example, China is asserting controversial territorial claims.

Things have become so tense in Asia that Auslin believes the promises of golden trade deals and investment opportunities has passed for now. It’s the subject of his upcoming book, “The End of the Asian Century.”

For Obama, who traveled to Germany as a presidential candidate in 2008, promises for a new kind of diplomacy turned into stone walls. The decaying relations with Russia and China are one sign that world leaders have come to dislike the elitist attitude presented by Obama and his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton.

And Obama has somehow missed opportunities to improve things around the world. Auslin said it’s a combination of bad policies and bad personal relationships with foreign leaders.

“Obama’s responses are largely rhetoric,” said Auslin.

Richard Grenell, former spokesman to four U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations, said America’s rivals have taken note of the political tone of Obama’s foreign policy operations. Obama is trying very hard to please the Democratic base by political commitments to bring troops home.

“When a president says he won’t start any new wars, that sounds like a great Miss America platform, but it’s not a national security criterion,” said Grenell. “You need to react. You can’t be trapped by not having any military U.S. men or women on the ground.”

Grenell points to the U.S. failure to find the command-and-control center of ISIS. He also points to the problems of Turks and Kurds fighting each other in Syria, instead of fighting ISIS.

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The Obama-Clinton style contrasts sharply with the Trump approach displayed in Mexico City. The GOP nominee put aside personal digs and political rhetoric — and got down to business.

It’s a surprise opening for Trump, whose business tenure is famous for tense meetings with rivals that often turn into productive agreements. It sounds like an approach world leaders could respect from the next U.S. president.

And the surprise trip hurt Trump’s rival, who announced she won’t be visiting Mexico. Grenell said Trump’s trip to Mexico City “imploded” Hillary Clinton’s narrative that Trump is not presidential.

In one fell swoop, he was gracious, diplomatic, and deferred on talking about the southern border wall, Grenell said. And, he said, Hillary Clinton won’t be visiting.

“Hillary Clinton only shows up when she’s paid,” Grenell said.