Tears for Fears said, “Everybody wants to rule the world.”

In his second term, pop music aficionado Donald Trump looks like he’s actually doing it. And if his shimmy with a Malaysian dance troupe on Sunday is anything to go by, the president is having a ball.

World leaders bow down before him, as on his trip to Asia, which has already seen a shower of tributes in Kuala Lumpur and the signing of a truce between Thailand and Cambodia that Trump helped broker — even if he claims a little more credit than he’s owed.

If nothing else, Trump has figured out the optics of geopolitics.

Countries rush to sign trade “deals” with him that leave them worse off.

He can summon prime ministers and presidents at a snap of his fingers — as when he dropped in to Egypt earlier this month for a dramatic photo op that underscored how he towers over his counterparts in smaller, less powerful countries.

Other governments might not like Trump but they fear him in a way that is catnip to his MAGA fans. Everyone tries to head off clashes with the bruiser in the Oval Office. European nations, for instance, boosted defense spending to meet his demands, dismantling political obstacles other US presidents couldn’t budge. NATO’s leader even joked he was the West’s “Daddy.”

When Trump hits town, hosts fawn over him and royals lay on pageantry.

The president is riding high, leading from the gut, ignoring caveats and conventional wisdom that constrained his predecessors, and apparently not paying much attention to the experts in his State Department.

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