Trump's Nobel Peace Prize Push: From The Politics Desk

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In today’s edition, we research really President Donald Trump is angling for an grant that eluded him during his first word and really he is taking a much progressive domiciled pinch awesome businesses.

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— Adam Wollner

Trump ramps up his run for nan Nobel Peace Prize

By Peter Nicholas, Megan Shannon and Monica Alba

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — President Donald Trump and his aides are intensifying a nationalist run to snag nan Nobel Peace Prize up of a high-stakes acme pinch Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Day by day, nan White House is amplifying Trump’s domiciled successful curbing hostilities and putting retired nan connection that this astir combative of presidents is astatine bosom a “peacemaker.”

Aides person highlighted his domiciled successful settling disputes betwixt Israel and Iran, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Cambodia and Thailand, and Rwanda and nan Democratic Republic of Congo, promoting “worldwide calls” from nan heads of respective of those countries for Trump to triumph nan bid prize.

Trump is besides touting his efforts to extremity a worrying conflict betwixt 2 nuclear-armed combatants, India and Pakistan. He suggested he utilized waste and acquisition arsenic an inducement to extremity nan fighting, though an Indian charismatic has denied that Trump’s mediation made immoderate difference.

Now comes his champion shot. Tomorrow, Trump will alert to Alaska for a sit-down pinch Putin aimed astatine ending nan warfare pinch Ukraine. The likelihood of a breakthrough are tough, but if Trump brokers a truce connected position that are adjacent to Ukraine, it would beryllium a negotiated triumph that eluded Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

In nan run-up to nan summit, nan Nobel Prize has appeared to beryllium apical of mind successful Trump’s circle. Without prompting, White House property caput Karoline Leavitt portrayed Trump arsenic deserving of nan prize successful 3 of her 4 briefings successful July. In erstwhile months, she hadn’t brought up nan award.

Trump has posted astir nan prize 7 times connected his societal media tract since his 2nd word began, six of them successful June and July. A taxable of his is that while he has earned nan accolade, he won’t triumph it.

“The president feels that he deserves nan Nobel Peace Prize but does not deliberation he will get it,” a White House charismatic said, speaking connected information of anonymity.

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More sum of nan Trump-Putin summit:

• Trump said connected Fox News Radio that he believes Putin is “convinced that he’s going to make a deal,” per Lindsey Pipia and Megan Lebowitz.
• Putin sounded affirmative connected nan eve of nan Alaska meeting, saying he believed Trump was making “quite energetic and sincere efforts” toward bid successful Ukraine, Alexander Smith writes.
• Trump told European leaders connected a telephone Wednesday that he doesn’t intend to talk immoderate imaginable divisions of territory pinch Putin, Katherine Doyle, Kristen Welker, Courtney Kube and Carol E. Lee report.

The CEO successful chief: How Trump is getting what he wants from large business

By Rob Wile and Allan Smith

For years, blimpish groups and firm leaders based on that nan U.S. authorities would beryllium amended if it were tally for illustration a business.

For President Donald Trump, who has controlled his ain businesses for decades, that looks for illustration taking an progressively progressive domiciled successful individual corporations’ affairs, from manufacturing to media to tech firms.

And corporations are gathering nan demands of a president who is much freely exerting his powers than he did nan past clip he was successful office. At Trump’s urging, Coca-Cola said it would nutrient a type of its namesake soda pinch U.S.-grown cane sugar. Paramount paid millions to settee allegations Trump levied against CBS’ venerated “60 Minutes.” Two awesome semiconductor makers agreed to springiness nan authorities a trim of their income successful China. The CEO of Intel met pinch Trump soon aft Trump called connected him to resign.

“It’s truthful overmuch different than nan first term,” said a Republican lobbyist whose patient represents respective Fortune 500 companies, who said connected information of anonymity to speak candidly. “He’s conscionable acting for illustration a businessman. In his first term, I deliberation he was trying to cosplay arsenic a politician. He’s much comfortable successful his ain skin, too. He tin explicate deals better.”

Trump’s domiciled represents a break pinch past administrations that whitethorn person been unwilling aliases unable, politically, to bring akin unit to carnivore connected businesses. In nan past, small-government conservatives accused erstwhile Democratic administrations of attempting to “pick winners and losers” by trying to modulate industries. Trump coming stands downstream of a bolder right-wing activity that calls for enhanced authorities involution successful firm affairs.

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That’s each From nan Politics Desk for now. Today’s newsletter was compiled by Adam Wollner and Bridget Bowman.

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