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Jose Luis Magana / AP Trump’s Own Aides Doubt His Latest Push on Guns
And Democrats do, too.
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Bryan Woolston / Reuters The Baggage Trump Brought to Dayton
The city is hovering between grief and recovery. The president didn’t unite it.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Trump’s Habit of Contradicting Himself After a Tragedy
What should the country believe: his speech or his tweets?
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Mandel Ngan / Stephen Jaffe / AFP / ... No One Knows Trump’s Next Move
Part of a president’s job is to be a unifying figure in times of national crisis. This president could be past the point where he can take on that role.
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Julio Cortez / AP Ben Carson’s Appearance in Baltimore Didn’t Go as Planned
The housing secretary didn’t offer Trump the sort of full-throated defense that the president might have expected.
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Henry Nicholls / Reuters Inside Donald Trump and Boris Johnson’s Special Relationship
The two leaders have lavished praise on each other, but serious practical differences remain between them. How long will the honeymoon last?
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP What Elijah Cummings Once Told Trump in Private
Two years before calling the prominent black congressman “racist,” the president was briefly humbled by him.
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Brendan Smialowski / Getty The White House Is Preparing for a ‘Dud’ or a ‘Dumpster Fire’
The administration is girding for potential fallout from Robert Mueller’s testimony, but like the rest of the country, officials don’t know exactly what to expect.
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Rachel Jessen ‘It Makes Us Want to Support Him More’
Amid a convulsive week in American politics, at one of the darkest rallies Donald Trump has ever held, his base showed up in force to tell the president he’s done nothing wrong.
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Alex Brandon / AP All About That Base
With his attacks on Democratic women of color and his threats to undocumented immigrants, President Trump has only one small audience in mind.
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Andrew Harnik / AP It’s a Precarious Time for Any Official in Trump’s Orbit
Alexander Acosta’s exit gratifies those who wanted him gone for his role in the Epstein plea deal. But the president’s advisers fear how more turnover reflects broader turmoil within the administration.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump’s Tweets Take Down Another Career
The British ambassador’s critique was precisely the variety Donald Trump can’t stomach.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Trump Commandeers the Fourth of July
Wandering the National Mall on Independence Day brought you face-to-face with a divided country.
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Alex Edelman / Getty Trump’s Fourth of July Takeover Was Inevitable
The event is the latest expression of the 45th president’s creeping ubiquity.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters ‘If You Want, I’ll Go On’: Trump’s Rambling News Conference
The president defended Vladimir Putin and Mohammed bin Salman while airing his grievances against Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and the Democratic Party.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic It’s Still the Trump Show
Donald Trump wasn’t onstage during the first Democratic debates, but he might as well have been.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty / The Atlantic How a Forgotten White House Team Gained Power in the Trump Era
Changes in the makeup of the Domestic Policy Council have already had broad national effects.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump Heads Into the G20 on Shaky Ground—And the World Knows It
The president will meet with a number of leaders in Japan. They’ve noticed that for all his bluster, he often folds.
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Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty The Iran Crisis Is Forcing Trump Into Uncomfortable Territory
The president is fighting two impulses: not backing down against an adversary, and his aversion to a new conflict.
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Andrew Harnik / AP The White House Is Nowhere Near Ready for Impeachment
The president is stewing over the possibility Democrats could try to remove him from office. His reelection-minded advisers want him focused on just about anything else.
