Trump’s Team of Rivals and the Uncertain Direction of U.S. Foreign Policy

Both Trump administrations carried a simple foreign-policy slogan: America First. What has been far less clear is whether America First ever translated into a single, coherent foreign policy. A stronger argument is that President Donald Trump presided over several foreign policies at once—often competing with one another—shaped not by institutional process or interagency discipline, but by personal access, ideological rivalry, and parallel power centers orbiting the president.

Early critics warned that America First would revive the isolationism of the original World War II–era movement of the same name. That did not happen. The Trump administrations did not retreat from the world; they engaged it aggressively, unpredictably, sometimes even confrontationally. The isolationists in the modern “America First” movement failed to get their way, but two distinct camps DID emerge, and their differences can be most clearly understood by contrasting Marco Rubio and Tom Barrack.

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