Charts show how Trump is isolating the US on world stage

Analysis shows that the world is moving closer to China, as Trump's isolationism rears its head at the United Nations…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/feb/13/these-charts-show-how-trump-is-isolating-the-us-on-the-world-stage

 

Outrage as Trump withdraws from key UN climate treaty along with dozens of international organisations

Donald Trump has sparked outrage by announcing the US will exit the foundational international agreement to address the climate crisis, cementing the US's utter isolation from the global effort to confront dangerously escalating temperatures. 

In a presidential memorandum issued on Wednesday, Trump withdrew from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), along with 65 other organizations, agencies and commissions, calling them "contrary to the interests of the United States".…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/07/trump-international-groups-un

 

The Price America Will Pay for Trump’s Tariffs - The Atlantic

Alienating allies and partners that the U.S. desperately needs means that "America First" will be "America Alone."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/price-america-trump-tariffs/681546/

The US Catalyzed Japan's Invasion of Manchuria | Sarah Paine

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QUcdQLEhsc0

 

Opinion | Donald Trump Doesn’t Have the Support of Corporate America - The New York Times

As such, it was hardly surprising that just as when Mr. Trump faced a chilly reaction from hundreds of top executives when he spoke at my Yale Chief Executive summit in 2005, he appeared to face a similarly frigid reception when he spoke to the Business Roundtable this month, with no noticeable applause at any point during his "remarkably meandering" remarks, according to CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin, and with Mr. Trump assuming a subdued, if not hostile, posture. Chief executives are not protectionist, isolationist or xenophobic, and they believe in investing where there is the rule of law, not the law of rulers...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/23/opinion/ceo-trump-republican-support.html

Secret Russian foreign policy document urges action to weaken the U.S. - The Washington Post

The document for the first time provides official confirmation and codification of what many in the Moscow elite say has become a hybrid war against the West. Russia is seeking to subvert Western support for Ukraine and disrupt the domestic politics of the United States and European countries, through propaganda campaigns supporting isolationist and extremist policies, according to Kremlin documents previously reported on by The Post. It is also seeking to refashion geopolitics, drawing closer to China, Iran and North Korea in an attempt to shift the current balance of power...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/17/russia-foreign-policy-us-weaken/

'Birchers,' the history of a group that helped pave the road to Trump - The Washington Post

With "Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right," Dallek joins a chorus of historians who have insisted, since Donald Trump's victory in 2016, that the contemporary Republican Party, with its nationalist, isolationist, nativist and conspiratorial inclinations, can be understood only by looking back to far-right mobilizations of earlier eras: to groups such as the Birchers, who were long considered too marginal and too extreme to have played a decisive role in shaping American conservatism, much less all of American politics. "More than any other far-right group, and more than the most hardline Goldwater, Nixon or Reagan Republicans," Dallek writes, "the Birch Society staked out a vigorous challenge to conservative orthodoxy and bequeathed to subsequent generations an extreme antigovernment zeal and rhetorically violent appeal."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/03/22/birchers-john-birch-society-radical-right-matthew-dallek/

Former republican adviser: I’ll be voting in the Democratic primary for the first time in 40 years | Column

Long-time Republican strategist Mac Stipanovich explains why he has registered as a Democrat ahead of Florida’s presidential primary.
https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2020/02/21/ill-be-voting-in-the-democratic-primary-for-the-first-time-in-40-years-column/

And then there were six ... what the rest of the world thinks of Donald Trump - Daily Kos

He came late. He pouted. He left early. Even converted into Latin, it wouldn't make for a stirring motto. But that didn't stop Donald Trump's surrogates from marching across the dial to spread the word that Trump was "forceful," that he presided over a "successful" G-7, and that he only called in from Air Force One to order an international takesy-backsy because he was "betrayed" by people who earned "a special place in hell" for crossing Trump. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1771088

John McCain Slams 'Half-Baked, Spurious Nationalism' in Liberty Medal Acceptance Speech -- TIME

The senator hit back against isolationism in a pointed speech while accepting the Liberty Medal ....
http://time.com/4985320/john-mccain-liberty-medal-nationalism-isolationism/

Under Mr. Trump, America Surrenders - The New York Times

Americans have long struggled with the question of whether this country should be more involved in world affairs, or less. The contest of ideas between internationalists and isolationists has been particularly fierce among Republicans, going all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft and continuing on to the beginning of World War II.

But since the end of that war, whatever the differences in their priorities and points of emphasis, every president has chosen engagement rather than retreat, sometimes with surprising and positive outcomes.....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/16/opinion/trump-america-international-surrender.html

Former President George W. Bush Has a Warning About America's 'Isolationist Tendency' (FORTUNE)

Former President George W. Bush on Wednesday warned against an "isolationist tendency" in the U.S. that he called dangerous to national security, at a time when the current president has faced questions about its commitment to the country's international partnerships...
http://fortune.com/2017/03/02/trump-george-w-bush-isolationist/

Donald Trump, Imperialist: He Longs to Build Up Our Military and Then Use It | Alternet

Trump's "America First" talk doesn't mean retrenchment. He just wants us to dominate everyone and rule the world....
http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/donald-trump-imperialist

The Threat Embedded in Trump's Angry Address | Alternet

Friday's inauguration saw promises of jobs and war—and hints of intimidation to come.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/threat-embedded-trumps-angryl-address

Trump’s claim of ‘America first’ during his acceptance speech is terrifying

In the very first speech of his presidency, Donald Trump chanted the slogan of a 1940s isolationist and anti-Semitic organization that had been opposed to America’s entry into World War II. The newly minted president of the United States chanted “America first” twice during his inauguration speech, shortly after taking the oath of office on Friday....
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-inauguration-america-first-a92311606153#.8baz7vbjc

With Echoes of the ’30s, Trump Resurrects a Hard-Line Vision of ‘America First’ (The New York Times)

In his inaugural address, President Trump appeared to herald the end of an American experiment to shape a world that would be eager to follow the United States' lead. ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/20/us/politics/trump-resurrects-dark-definition-of-america-first-vision.html

The Most Fearsome Hawk of All: Donald Trump's Careless, Brutal Plans for the U.S. Put the World in Peril

Over the Memorial Day weekend, Salon published an important piece by David Niose about Donald Trump’s incipient fascism and what that reveals about American militarism. Let’s just say that his success is not likely a sign that we are headed toward a new kinder, gentler foreign policy.

Trump’s use of the term “America First” doesn’t harken back to pre-WWII isolationism as many people want to believe. He himself undoubtedly had no idea that it had that meaning when he said it, he just knew he’d heard it before. What he meant is “America will be Number One,” which isn’t the same thing at all....
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/donald-trumps-plans-will-put-world-peril.