
The hours after Donald Trump ordered a targeted missile strike against an air base in Syria were among the best of his troubled, 11-week presidency. “I think Donald Trump became president of the United States,” gushed CNN‘s Fareed Zakaria. Born-again Trump critic Joe Scarborough praised Trump’s moral clarity for taking action after Syrian president Bashar al-Assad used sarin gas to kill dozens of his own people. Even The New York Times’s Nicholas Kristoff tweeted that Trump “is right to make Syria pay a price for war crimes, and taking out airfields is the best approach.”