Five months into the most consequential foreign-policy presidency since Richard Nixon left the White House, Donald Trump’s approach to the world is taking on a definitive shape.
First and foremost, restraint isn’t part of Mr. Trump’s political method. He seeks to accumulate as much executive power as possible at home; he wants the same thing internationally. Far from limiting America’s world role, Mr. Trump intends to place the country at the center of international affairs. What Alice Longworth said of her father, Theodore Roosevelt, is true of Mr. Trump, at least as far as his approach to international and domestic politics. He wants to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening.