The visit comes as the administration has felt emboldened after winning new legal authority to move forward in funding a border wall and gaining additional powers to enforce asylum restrictions.
The president awarded the Medal of Freedom to baseball legend Mariano Rivera, the latest in a growing list of sports stars to be honored.
In a string of extraordinary episodes, the president has aligned himself with one of the world’s most brutal dictators against individual Americans, the intelligence community, the military and U.S. allies.
Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard repeats opposition to “safe third country” agreement.
For the staffers at agencies that have led the administration’s Dorian efforts, the president’s involvement has been a mixed blessing.
Despite the president’s unwillingness to criticize Kim Jong Un, U.S. officials lately have been rebuffed time and again in their overtures to the North Korean leader’s underlings.
Jair Bolsonaro was elected as the “Trump of the tropics.” He has parlayed that into a series of policy coups with the Trump administration.
The president’s personal attack could signal a deeper shift in his administration’s increasingly confrontational strategy with Beijing, analysts said.
Advisers warned the president that there is little support for significant action on gun control among Republican voters — and even among some Democrats.
The president said responding to damage in Puerto Rico was “by far the most difficult” compared with storms in Texas and Florida last year.