In his tell-all account of his brief time serving as the national security adviser in the Trump WhiteHouse, John Bolton describes, in more than pages, many troubling aspects of the Trump presi-dency during that period, making the book a bestseller. That narrative, however, largely overshad-ows the very real policy mayhem of the Trump administration, policies that, in almost all cases,Bolton championed. Bolton’s account is the story of America’s reputational decline and outlierstatus in the international community under Trump