Comparative reactions in the wake of this week’s Manchester massacre by the latest Islam-driven terrorist demonstrate – again — how sharply we have upgraded American leadership by electing Donald Trump to succeed Barack Obama.

Strangely, the immature, hopelessly insecure liberal media mercifully has turned mute. Unmistakably, President Trump has risen toweringly over the shrinking Obama legacy.

The rise and unprecedented success of Islamic terrorism “is a battle between good and evil,” President Trump logically, courageously said last weekend in Saudi Arabia, the heart of Islam.

As Michael Goodwin noted in the New York Post, President Trump stoutly implored his audience of Muslim leaders to unite, for a change, in “pursuing the one goal that transcends every other consideration. That goal is to meet history’s great test, to conquer extremism and vanquish the forces of terrorism.”

Such courage never was detected in his predecessor.

Unlike the jelly-centered Mr. Obama, President Trump does not have a Muslim heritage to overcome.

Mr. Obama’s Islamic background and subsequent biases prevented the mushy ex-president from publicly calling evil Muslims “Islamic terrorists.” He never enunciated the phrase. Ignoring the obvious was a fatal fault of his flawed presidency.

Honest labeling never dared cross his lips. This fueled America’s formerly declining global image.

Compared to President Trump’s welcome outspokenness, Mr. Obama’s closely calculated oratorical missteps about Muslim terrorists irrevocably proved his lack of fitness to lead or even be influential.

Mr. Obama’s image forever was scarred in the first year of his presidency. After an Islamic terrorist in the U.S. military slaughtered 13 and wounded dozens in a rampage at Ft. Hood in 2009, Mr. Obama’s unforgivable – but universally ignored — Muslim prejudice led him to ludicrously brand the incident “workplace violence”

Never again would he be taken seriously.