international partners, that america first is not going to mean isolationism. but this has been the major concern among our partners overseas that the united states isn't really interested in working toward our shared common goals but only its own goals. and is pursuing this more isolationist path. so you can see with this france trip as the background music, this is definitely an effort to try to reassure our european partners and our asian partners for that matter that the united states is not going to withdraw from the world. that's not what america first means. but certainly if you think back to the campaign trail to some of donald trump's rhetoric in that setting, that's what a lot of his supporters took away from what he was saying when he said america first, that we weren't going to engage in these conflicts overseas, we weren't going to -- we were going to be limiting our trade with some of these countries, pursuing only bilateral trade negotiations, for example. so competing messages for sure. and you wonder what donald trump's some of his supporters who took that america first message to heart might be thinking when they see an op-ed