Tweets aside, Trump has mostly governed like a garden-variety Republican
AS HIS PRESIDENCY ADVANCES TOWARD THE ONE-YEAR mark on Jan. 20, it is harder than ever to see Donald J. Trump clearly. A much-talked-about new book portrays him as a cartoonishly petulant, narcissistic man-child with no trace of curiosity about the world or his job. His backers insist it’s his politically incorrect, plain-speaking alpha-male forcefulness that so offends his critics. Competing cable channels give each view ample airtime, and American politics seems lost in the fog of perpetual war.
Foreign leaders see Trump more pragmatically. They’ve lost interest in his tweets and outsize personality, shocking and entertaining though both sometimes are. To understand the true impact of the man who leads the world’s only superpower, allies and rivals look beyond Trump himself to the changes created by
