Trump's Promises of Easy Wins Meet Reality During a Rocky Week
President Donald Trump returned to office promising to easily fix generationally intractable problems, from quickly brokering peace in Ukraine and the Middle East to overhauling the federal government and rewriting the global trade order.
But this week showed just how far he is from solving any of them.
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