Trump leads in a different direction

Published May 4, 2018 4:00am ET



We rolled our eyes last summer when foreign policy elites declared the end of American global leadership and a new “isolationism” after President Trump and the U.S. announced withdrawal from the Paris climate accords. Looking back on that freakout is still good for a laugh.

Today, as the leaders on the Korean Peninsula call for a Nobel Peace Prize for Trump, as Trump has unified Sunni nations in a counterterrorism effort, as he begins work with Ukraine and the Baltic nations to counter Russia’s aggression, and as he fosters a bond with France’s Emmanuel Macron, it’s impossible with a straight face to call Trump an isolationist or say America has retreated from the world.

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