A billboard of G20 leaders in Johannesburg on Wednesday. A senior Trump administration official said the United States’ participation would be purely ceremonial.
President Trump’s aides have provided conflicting accounts of what, exactly, they are seeking to achieve, as America’s largest aircraft carrier heads toward the Caribbean region.
“Either Trump is going to win or Maduro is going to win,” said Elliott Abrams, Mr. Trump’s special adviser on Venezuela in the first administration, and now a scholar at the Council on Foreign Relations.
President Trump has been dining with billionaires and has taken a keen interest in crises overseas, leading to fears that he is drifting away from his more populist stances.
The address mixed the traditional solemnity of the day with political arguments, as the president celebrated his efforts to remake the armed services into a “Department of War.”
The visit by President Ahmed al-Shara is another step in the transformation of the former rebel leader once wanted by the United States as a terrorist.
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