Trump was once laughed at on the UN stage. Now, world leaders are courting him

When President Donald Trump brought his trademark braggadocio to the United Nations' rostrum in his first term, he was met with an unfamiliar-for-him response from the delegates: mocking laughter. Seven years later, few could imagine the scene repeating itself. Once the object of skepticism and open derision by his foreign counterparts, Trump arrives at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday as an avatar of a changing world order that has little use for global institutions like the one he's speaking at. Instead of laughing in his face, world leaders are now devising ever-more-lavish displays of flattery to enter Trump's good…