MARK PENN: I'm watching Trump unite Europe while the media pretends it's falling apart

The previous president was not capable of the kind of top-to-top diplomacy needed to resolve complex world situations, and the U.S. was at serious risk because of that lapse and the reliance on aides instead. The real danger of the cover-up of the last president's health was not in relation to domestic policy but the way it left the U.S. incapacitated when it came to foreign affairs. 

Compare that to the country today. We see Trump taking meetings and initiating discussions that usually take months and years to set up. He's pulled it off in days. 

European leaders dropped whatever they were doing to show up at the White House on Monday to have the kind of allied meeting we have not seen, ever. And this is with all the talk that Trump had damaged the European alliance. 

Trump may or may not be successful here but he has all parties talking about how they could end a war that has been at a standstill for years - one that has cost over a million lives and counting. Rather than just throw money at the problem as was done by the last administration, Trump has put his presidency and America behind finding a solution outside the battlefield. 

This is in the finest tradition of what America can and should do as the leader of the free world. America First should never mean allowing the world to spin out of control and become engulfed in endless conflicts. 

This is what is keeping our country more divided than it can or should be - when one side does something that is clearly good, like trying to solve the world's biggest war, the headlines should reflect that effort, regardless of the party.