the leader of the free world

the leader of the free world

1. The United States of America, especially in relation to international politics. Sometimes capitalized. Ever since the Cold War, America has prided itself on being known as the Leader of the Free World. Some people feel that our country has a responsibility, as the leader of the free world, to help shape the way countries across the globe do business.
2. By extension, the President of the United States of America. Sometimes capitalized. Since he was a young boy, Gerald had dreamed of someday becoming the leader of the free world.
See also: free, leader, of, world
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • The Land of Opportunity
  • Uncle Sugar
  • mom and apple pie
  • motherhood and apple pie
  • Mr. Whiskers
  • Uncle Whiskers
  • whiskers man
  • motherhood
  • as American as mom and apple pie
  • as American as motherhood and apple pie
References in periodicals archive
"Just because you're the leader of the free world, doesn't entitle you to a free pass.
Mr Trump is not some random, embittered person down the pub he's the leader of the free world. By virtue of his office, he speaks for America.
IT WAS something you'd expect ripped from a white supremacist manifesto and spoken by a grandmaster of the Ku Klux Klan rather than the leader of the free world.
Now is not the time to embarrass the leader of the free world. Trump will never change his spots, but that does not mean we have to stoop to his ignorant level.
NO sooner has the leader of the free world, our greatest ally, our partner in defeating tyranny in two world wars, with the sacrifice of thousands of lives, thus affording the chattering classes amongst us the freedom of infantile heckling and worse, our state media and others move into full anti Trump mode, giving vent to some of the most foul mouthed vitriol your ever likely to hear.
"Donald Trump's statement on the Arms Trade Treaty is the final confirmation that he is not the Leader of the Free World, he never has been, and he does not deserve the honour of a State Visit to Britain," Thornberry said in a tweet on Friday afternoon, referring to the US president's scheduled three-day visit to the country in June.
In striking comments for a politician who could go on to play a leading role in British relations with Mr Trump's administration if he is re-elected, the senior Labour figure said the move "is the final confirmation that he is not the Leader of the Free World".
And Greta has become something of a leader of this resistance by taking on the burden of saving the world on her small shoulders at a time when the leader of the free world continues to deny climate change.
Please come back fast, we need you!" Ignoring the fact that no one knows what "Global Waming" is (a typo that is still there, uncorrected, on the internet, days later), let's all just take a moment to be terrified that the leader of the free world 1) doesn't understand the difference between climate and weather, and 2) is using the prospect of the death of some of his citizens to gleefully attack science.
Journalism's rank and file never became rich, though who cares about money when you can take down the leader of the free world. Moreover, as they monopolized local ad markets, postwar newspapers did well financially.
The US, which is the largest economy and the leader of the free world, has the power to keep in check such ambitions.
"It's dangerous because it sends a message to President Putin and to the rest of the world that the President of the United States, the leader of the free world, really doesn't have a handle on what he's doing," he added.
Whether people like it or not, this man is carrying out his election promises, something that our own Prime Ministers since Lady Thatcher have failed to do "big style" I fail to see what motive the media has in vilifying the leader of the free world. Obama betrayed not only his own country and poked his nose into British domestic politics when he said he would but us at the back of the queue when it came to trade deals if we left the EU.
If the leader of the free world can fall prey to foul interference, then elections in vulnerable democracies like Pakistan are at high risk.