White House report card: Trump’s China excursion can’t mask worries at home

White House report card: Trump’s China excursion can’t mask worries at home


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Welcome to Friday’s edition of Washington Secrets. Which means it is time for our regular rundown of Donald Trump’s week, and whether he won it or lost it.

President Donald Trump left on his postponed trip to meet Xi Jinping this week, but without any resolution to the crisis in Iran (the reason for the delay in the first place).

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On Sunday, he said he was rejecting Iran’s response to the latest peace proposal as “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE.” (Capitalization all his.) The ceasefire was on “life support,” he told reporters a day later, raising speculation that he was about to start bombing the country again.

On Tuesday, Trump left for Beijing, but not without putting a Persian cat among the domestic pigeons. A president elected to make America more affordable again said he was not weighing the economic burden of the Iran war on everyday Americans while negotiating with Tehran. “Not even

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