Analysis | Trump is about to make his G7 debut in Italy. Will he make any friends?

Is Donald Trump really going to ditch the Paris climate change accord? Whither the sweeping tax cuts and America First trade policies he has also promised?

What is he up to in the Middle East and what exactly are his plans for North Korea?

US partners in the G7 club of industrialised democracies head for Sicily on Friday hoping for at least partial answers to those and other questions from a US administration still deciding how to implement its radical policy agenda.

Six months after his election, Trump jets to the Italian island for the final leg of a gruelling first overseas trip that has temporarily diverted attention from an uncomfortable domestic spotlight on alleged campaign collusion with Russia.

The 70-year-old may be forgiven if he is a little tired, but he will not escape a grilling from allies determined to divert him from a path they see as potentially disastrous for the architecture of the post-second world war world.