
President Trump heads to Alaska for a high-stakes meeting with Vladimir Putin, aiming to broker a Ukraine cease-fire. Framed as a global peacemaker, Trump arrives with substantial domestic and international achievements, warning Putin of serious consequences if he’s not cooperative. Larry Kudlow, writing for The New York Sun, calls Trump “the most powerful political leader on the planet” and portrays him as walking into the summit from a position of unmatched strength and popularity. Kudlow writes:
As President Trump travels to Alaska to meet with Russia’s Putin tomorrow, Mr. Trump has the wind at his back.
Make no mistake about this: Right now, Mr. Trump is the most powerful head of state and political leader on the planet Earth.
Even people that don’t like him, if they have any brains at all, should be willing to concede this point. […]
Not only is Mr. Trump the best known person on the planet, not only is he the most powerful person on the planet — he is, despite all of his critics, the most popular person on the planet.
And the combination of those three elements is why, one way or another, he’s going to succeed in solving this problem. Just as he has solved all the others.
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