No matter what Trump does to alienate the US from its allies, his unorthodox moves aren’t hurting demand for American-made natural gas. In the first weeks of his second presidency, he sought to broker a peace deal for Ukraine without key allies (or Ukraine), slapped tariffs on trade partners and pitched a bombastic idea to remake the Middle East. Leaders from Europe, India and Japan have responded with pledges to buy more American gas. “It’s mind-blowing to think that the president of the United States doesn’t have to worry about imported energy when negotiating for peace in the Middle East or on the European continent,” says Amy Myers Jaffe, a professor at New York University who teaches about energy and climate finance. “You can lead those discussions from a position of power.”