Not Much Winning For Trump: Setbacks On Trade, North Korea, Immigration

US President Donald Trump speaks to military members via teleconference from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida on November 22, 2018. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGA... US President Donald Trump speaks to military members via teleconference from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida on November 22, 2018. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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As President Donald Trump constructs his campaign infrastructure on messages of historic progress and constant “winning,” he’s struggling to bat back a series of well-publicized failures on trade, immigration and North Korea denuclearization.

According to the Washington Post, his image as a crusading and effective outsider has sustained blows recently as the trade deficit balloons to historic highs, illegal border crossings skyrocket despite Trump’s hard line and North Korea brazenly shores up their nuclear weaponry.

Trump has been consistently shifting the blame to others in his orbit, but reportedly frets about his own personal approval rates.

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