Biden campaigned as the anti-Trump. But a clean break is never easy.

Perhaps the most blunt comparison came this month, when Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French foreign minister, said he was livid at how the United States circumvented France to cut a deal with Australia to build nuclear-powered submarines.

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“This brutal, unilateral and unpredictable decision reminds me a lot of what Mr. Trump used to do,” Mr. Le Drian said.

Derrick Johnson, the president of the N.A.A.C.P., last week referred to Mr. Trump in criticizing the Biden administration’s decision to turn back hundreds of Haitian migrants trying to enter the United States.

“If we were to close our eyes and this was occurring under the Trump administration, what would we do?” Mr. Johnson said, warning the administration that his group had no permanent friends, only permanent interests.

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