Why Trump’s “America First” Policy Is Doomed to Fail

The two words came eight minutes into President Trump’s Inaugural Address, and were delivered with the now-familiar gesticulations. “America first,” he declared, his right arm bouncing with each word, his index finger and thumb pinched together, followed by an exclamatory point of the finger: “America first.” With those words, Trump broke sharply with how U.S. Presidents have defined America’s relationship with the international community across seven decades since the Second World War.

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