For the last eight years, GOP politicians and media have been broadcasting the “alternative fact” that Obama was running around the world apologizing for America. This was demonstrably false, but the GOP doesn’t believe in letting the facts get in the way of a good story.
In light of this, you can see the irony in the ongoing attempts by members of the Cabinet and Congress to reassure our allies every time Trump drops a rhetorical bomb on them. In lieu of nonexistent apologies for our country’s past, we now have real and repeated apologies for our President.