Federal workers are lining up outside food banks. Disappearing SNAP benefits could cause millions of their neighbors to go hungry, too. 22 states—including MAGA-friendly Iowa, Mississippi, and West Virginia—may already be in a recession. Hiring is down. Inflation is up. Groceries keep getting more expensive.

Americans, in other words, are struggling. And where is President America First?

In Asia, of course.

Now, President Trump hasn’t entirely ignored domestic policy over the past several weeks. Someone has to be there to say yes to Stephen Miller, and besides, the East Wing wasn’t going to demolish itself. But to an extent almost no one would have guessed a year ago, Trump, his ratings sagging at home, appears obsessed with winning the world’s approval.

Trump is bringing his signature no-one-tell-Grandpa-what-it-looks-like-he’s-doing dance to Malaysia. He’s calling for everyone to buy Japanese Toyotas, touting a $10 billion investment from the auto company into U.S. plants that is, in reality, far less than meets the eye. He’s bailing out right-wing allies in Argentina with taxpayer dollars. He’s flying to Egypt to negotiate a real estate deal on the sidelines of his ceasefire celebration. Through it all—and even as he gears up for a regime-change war in Venezuela—he’s angling for a Nobel Peace Prize with a PR blitz that puts even the thirstiest Oscar campaign to shame.

It’s a twist neither the president’s MAGA-iest allies or staunchest opponents saw coming. In his dotage, Donald Trump has become a globalist.

To be clear: I’m not an international relations expert. But neither are the vast majority of American voters. And we........

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