But can you separate Trump from the present circumstances?
Bowl Cut threatening to nuke the US under Madame Hillary would have elicited a more muted response, imo. Hillary is proven to be more comfortable exercising US power in North African backwaters, recklessly and pointlessly, where the downside in terms of US casualties is minimal to nonexistent.
At the risk of being crude [oh hell, it is crude] it takes balls to credibly project US military power on the Korean Peninsula.
THAT, gets China's attention. It gets the UN's attention.
I would argue there would be no 15-0 Security Council vote without Trump. I disagree with Niki Haley on Assad but she deserves credit as well.