Then came the World Wars, and after them a choice without precedent: not just to engage with the world but to organize it. Every American President from Harry Truman onward committed the country to leading a volatile world—building alliances, underwriting institutions, and defending a rule of law that Washington mostly chose to live within. The commitment was bipartisan, and for 80 years it held.
President Donald Trump isn’t the cause of that sentiment. It hardened in the late 2000s, as a financial crisis at home met the spectacle of a rising China—one climbing through the very trade rules Washington had built to its own advantage. The suspicion that America had written an order others were winning under took root across both parties, and never left. Trump tapped it, rode it, and inflamed it, recognizing Americans’ changing views of the national interest and America’s role in the world.
Not anymore. Under Trump, the world’s superpower has become something it has rarely been before: an unreliable actor on the global stage. The U.S. today doesn’t just keep allies guessing about its next move—it makes them doubt whether it will honor its last commitment. Countries sign deals and watch Washington rewrite the terms. Intelligence-sharing is suspended overnight. Foreign aid is cut off. America’s unreliability has become the driver of geopolitical instability, the thing every foreign ministry now has to plan around.
Not all of it will last. Some of the sharpest disruptions—the score-settling, the deals undone by a social media post, the threats against allies’ sovereignty, the regime-change operations—are particular to this President: the places where his personal interest diverges from the national interest, and he pursues the former at the latter’s expense. They do serious damage, but they will recede after he leaves office. Trust can be rebuilt, if from a lower baseline.
For the U.S., it isn’t so much a rupture as a return. Trump will pass; the inward turn won’t. At 250, this is just who America is now.
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