It's not true.

Joe Scarborough recently lamented "America's dangerous retreat from the world," drawing a parallel to the isolationism of the inter-war period. "Under the banner of 'America First,' " reports Evan Osnos in The New Yorker, "President Trump is reducing US commitments abroad."

Misplaced as it is, this criticism isn't cut from whole cloth. Last year the Trump administration abruptly withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and the Paris Climate Accord, and has also approved cuts in funding for foreign aid and the United Nations. Trump himself has contributed to the view of America's retreat from the world with his erratic tweets and his campaign statements decrying "globalism."