President Donald Trump concluded his second overseas trip as president Saturday — a high-stakes trip the president defined by coupling an “America first” agenda with a deep appreciation for key U.S. allies and shared values.

“I will represent our country well and fight for its interests! Fake News Media will never cover me accurately but who cares! We will #MAGA!” Trump tweeted Friday. He added Saturday, “The #G-20Summit was a wonderful success and carried out beautifully by Chancellor Angela Merkel. Thank you!”

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Over the course of his three days spent abroad, there are several key takeaways Americans can glean from Trump’s trip:

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Trump’s Defense of Western Values in Warsaw

The president was unapologetic when he championed the western heritage shared by the U.S., Poland, and other European countries in an address The Wall Street Journal editorial board dubbed to be “Trump’s defining speech.” He praised Poland for surviving and thriving through the horrors of World War II and noted how the country had produced some of the West’s greatest cultural heroes. Calling the speech a “determined and affirmative defense of the Western tradition,” WSJ noted how Trump’s speech vastly different from former President Barack Obama’s so-called “apology tour.”

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“Mr. Trump is taking a clear stand against the kind of gauzy globalism and vague multiculturalism represented by the worldview of, say, Barack Obama and most contemporary Western intellectuals, who are willing, even eager, to concede the argument to critics of the West’s traditions,” the WSJ noted. “It is a nationalism rooted in values and beliefs — the rule of law, freedom of expression, religious faith, and freedom from oppressive government — that let Europe and then America rise to prominence. This, Mr. Trump is saying, is worth whatever it takes to preserve and protect.”

The president decried the “oppressive ideology” of radical Islamic terrorism that threatens Western values and ways of life, promising that “we will confront them” and “we will win.” He also said that “the steady creep of government bureaucracy that drains the vitality and wealth of the people” is also alien to Western values.

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“We write symphonies. We pursue innovation. We celebrate our ancient heroes, embrace our timeless traditions and customs, and always seek to explore and discover brand-new frontiers,” Trump said. “We reward brilliance. We strive for excellence, and cherish inspiring works of art that honor God. We treasure the rule of law and protect the right to free speech and free expression.”

“And so I am here today not just to visit an old ally, but to hold it up as an example for others who seek freedom and who wish to summon the courage and the will to defend our civilization,” Trump added.

Trump Pushes China on North Korea

As the nuclear threat North Korea poses to the West continues to escalate, Trump pressured his Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jinping, to increase China’s pressure on the rogue country. As North Korea’s largest trading power, China can wield a heavy economic influence over North Korea. While North Korea continues to expand its nuclear warhead program and launch long-range missile tests, Trump asked Xi to use China’s trade relationship with North Korea and help the U.S. end the hostilities “one way or the other.”

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“Something has to be done,” Trump said following his meeting with Xi on Saturday, adding that stifling North Korea’s aggression “may take longer than I’d like, it may take longer that you’d like. But there will be success in the end one way or the other.”

“I appreciate the things that you have done relative to the very substantial problem that we all face in North Korea, a problem that something has to be done about,” he added.

“Leaving Hamburg for Washington, D.C. and the WH. Just left China’s President Xi where we had an excellent meeting on trade & North Korea,” Trump added in a tweet.

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Bringing Fair Trade to the Forefront

One of Trump’s key “America First” campaign promises involved exiting and renegotiating the “disastrous” trade deals that benefited foreign allies while hurting the U.S. economy and its workers. While speaking with Xi Saturday, Trump once again brought up the issue of the United States’ glaring trade deficit with China. Calling China a “great trading partner,” Trump said that “many things have happened” that created trade imbalances, adding, “we’re going to turn that around.”

Trump also signaled that he and British Prime Minister Theresa May had promised to sign a “very, very big trade deal” between their two countries as the United Kingdom continues to carry out its Brexit proceedings of withdrawing from the European Union.

“Prime Minister May and I have developed a very special relationship, and I think trade will be a big factor between our two countries,” Trump said. “We have been working on a trade deal which will be a very, very big deal, a very powerful deal, great for both countries, and I think we will have that done very, very quickly.”

Trump Achieves Thaw While Remaining Firm with Putin

With a left-driven mainstream media back in the U.S. pushing the unsubstantiated narrative that the Russians colluded with Trump to throw the 2016 presidential election in his favor, all eyes were on Trump when he met Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin for his first time as president. Although CNN’s anonymous sources claimed that Trump would not confront Putin over the election interference, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson affirmed that Trump did, in fact, bring the topic up multiple times and raised “the concerns of the American people regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election.”

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“The two leaders agreed that this is a substantial hindrance on the ability of us to move Russian-U.S. relationships forward and agreed to exchange further work regarding commitments of noninterference in the affairs of the United States and our democratic process, as well as those of other countries,” Tillerson said in an audio-only press briefing Friday. “So more work to be done in that regard.”

Although Trump broached the murky topic with Putin, the U.S. president also made it quite clear that he wants to cultivate a working relationship with Russia and cultivate shared goals. Unwilling to egregiously jeopardize U.S.-Russia relations, the president sought to build upon that relationship while decrying the election meddling.

Nevertheless, Trump also took Russia to task in other parts of his foreign trip for Russia’s aid to Syria and Iran.

“To meet new forms of aggression, including propaganda, financial crimes, and cyberwarfare, we must adapt our alliance to compete effectively in new ways and on all new battlefields,” Trump had said in his Warsaw speech. “We urge Russia to cease its destabilizing activities in Ukraine and elsewhere, and its support for hostile regimes — including Syria and Iran — and to instead join the community of responsible nations in our fight against common enemies and in defense of civilization itself.”

U.S. Again Resists Climate Peer Pressure

Trump spurred mass outrage among leaders of the 19 other G-20 nations when he announced the United States’ withdrawal from the Obama-era Paris Agreement on climate change in June. Insisting that he was putting “America First,” Trump refused to cede control of the U.S. economy to global guidelines and expressed his desire to both respect the environment and boost U.S. industries. Noting that he was “elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris,” Trump insisted that the Paris Agreement “hamstrung” the country.

While at the G-20 summit, Germany’s Merkel led the 18 other nations in supporting a single communique containing climate change, trade and energy pledges, among others. The U.S. proved to be the lone holdout.

“The leaders of the other G-20 members state that the Paris Agreement is irreversible,” the communique read. “We reaffirm our strong commitment to the Paris Agreement, moving swiftly towards its full implementation in accordance with the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, in the light of different national circumstances, and, to this end, we agree to the G-20 Hamburg Climate and Energy Action Plan for Growth as set out in the Annex.”

Merkel said she “deplored” Trump’s decision to refrain from committing to the communique.

“In the end, the negotiations on climate reflect dissent — all against the United States of America,” Merkel told reporters. “And the fact that negotiations on trade were extraordinarily difficult is due to specific positions that the United States has taken.”