Multiple lawmakers and policy advisers from both sides of the isle have, as recently as the summit in Munich, been telling other diplomats and foreign leaders to ignore president Trump's tweets and statements, especially concerning foreign policy. Politicians ranging from Ohio Republican Michael Turner to National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster have insisted that American foreign relations will remain the same, despite the fiery language used by Trump in his constant stream of tweets directed at both domestic rivals and other nations. While many international leaders are struggling to decide whether the speech of the president or that of the masses of lower officials contradicting him is more representative of our stance as a nation on foreign issues, local politicians and congressional leaders have begun to conduct foreign relations on their own (such as the National Governors' Association hosting diplomats from Canada and Mexico as well as others) while continuing to undermine Trump's unclear and unstable "America First" mindset by assuring world leaders of a continuation of Obama-era global engagement in cooperative foreign policy.
This could theoretically tie to the end of the Wilson presidency, when a debilitating stroke left WW less-than-functional in office at which point others in his inner circle, most notably his wife Edith, took up the mantle and continued to operate the country without much of his own input or action (not to insinuate that the president functions as well as a stroke victim, considering a white house physician declared him in "excellent overall health"). Wilson continued to make campaign speeches (he was running for re-election) and met with government officials, he just lacked any sort of legislative, or at that point emotional, impact and his office was pretty much run without him.
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