Donald Trump’s Second Presidency: National Interest vs. ‘Rules-Based Order’?
Journal: Lomonosov World Politics Journal
Year: 2025

From the outset of his second presidential term, Donald Trump proclaimed a fundamental reassessment of Washington’s foreign policy priorities, explicitlyasserting the primacy of the U.S. national interests over the globalist objectives of maintaining the world order. This discourse has drawn strong criticism from advocates of the so-called liberal international order, traditionally associated with the Democratic Party, who accuse D. Trump of neo-isolationism, of sacrificing principled policy pos