BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Putting America first is what President Trump said during his inauguration speech about making decisions to benefit American workers and families, but Kushnood Haq, an international business expert from Hilbert College, cautions that plan could backfire, depending on the approach. 

"The biggest change that I see from previous administrations is more focus on isolation and less on globalization, which means that if this continues, we'll have less trading partners, we'll have less exports and imports, and less business activity," said Haq, vice provost for strategic initiatives at Hilbert College. 

Haq says stock prices went up quite a bit the last few weeks based on expectations of President Trump's agenda, but that's changing. 

"The last few days, things have slowed down. It's sort of a sobering attitude now, because people are starting to understand the implications of some of these policies and initiatives he's undertaken," said Haq. 

He thinks the biggest problem would be imposing taxes and other barriers on importing, which has been proposed as a way to pay for the border wall. 

"If he imposes a 20 percent tariff on Mexican products coming into the U.S., those costs will be passed to the consumers," said Haq, "Also, Mexico will then impost tariffs on U.S. products going to Mexico, which means that that will not be very beneficial to our producers, because they will be less competitive."

While he says that will take some time, Haq believes if the U.S. doesn't change its outlook toward international trade and business, it will trickle down and have a harmful affect. 

"It does appear sometimes as if the Trump administration doesn't realize that we are not the sole power in the world," said Laurie Buonanno, public administration professor at SUNY Buffalo State.  

Buonanno says President Trump has to accept that the U.S. needs friends, and she thinks the administration should stop treating his 100 day plan like a contract. 

"They have to realize that the American people do not expect everything he wrote in that contract to take place," said Buonanno, "Let's stop the campaign rhetoric, and let's skip to the business of governing and part of the business of governing is working with your friends to ensure a safer world, and part of a safer world is a world with a healthy, dynamic global economy."