ANALYZING TRUMP ON SYRIA: President Trump sounded much more like an interventionist than an isolationist at yesterday’s Rose Garden appearance standing beside Jordan’s King Abdullah, speaking passionately about the horrific chemical attack in Syria, which increasingly looks like the work of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The question is whether the president’s change of tone will result in a change of heart about taking military action that would put the U.S. in the middle of Syria’s six-year civil war and the opposite side of Russia, which backs the Assad regime. Earlier this week the Trump administration indicated it could live with Assad remaining in power and that it was up to Syrians to decide his fate.

President Trump: “I do change and I am flexible, and I’m proud of that flexibility. And I will tell you, that attack on children yesterday had a big impact on me, big impact. … And I will tell you, it’s already happened that my attitude toward Syria and Assad has changed very much. …  I will tell you, what happened yesterday is unacceptable to me.