The essence of President Donald Trump’s America First approach on the world stage is national sovereignty and self-determination. It is a firm rejection of the globalist, supranationalist approach of his Democratic predecessors, Joe Biden and Barack Obama. The United Nations and the European Union are increasingly perceived in Washington today as relics of globalism that have actively worked against the interests of the United States and seek to constrain the world’s superpower.

The United States is not abandoning the fight for human rights, but rather realigning it with the original vision of America’s Founding Fathers. The American people do not depend upon international courts or conventions to protect their civil liberties. They are defined by the US Constitution. 

In the Trump era, the United States clearly does retain a vital national interest in defending human rights on the international stage. The key difference today is that it is not couched within meaningless global treaties, useless UN bodies infiltrated by dictatorial regimes, or supranational courts, which all too often are dominated by the enemies of freedom. Nor does it pander to the woke cultural elites of the West, who seek to advance a radical LGBT agenda at the expense of traditional American values. 

It is clear that under Trump’s approach, the United States will never subject itself to the rulings of an international criminal court or a pan-American version of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The American people are sovereign, and their borders should be secure from foreign power or control.

The UN’s broken human rights apparatus is largely irrelevant to the new administration. The United States

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