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President Donald Trump holds up a copy of a 2025 National Trade Estimate Report as he speaks at an event at the White House on April 2, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
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Elon Musk is photographed at Space X in Brownsville, Texas, on May 27, 2025. (Marvin Joseph via Getty Images)
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President Abraham Lincoln stands with Gen. George B. McClellan and other officers in Antietam, Maryland, on October 3, 1862. (Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons)
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An F/A-18E Super Hornet lands on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the South China Sea on June 5, 2025. (US Navy)
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President Donald Trump boards Air Force One on September 7, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. (Getty Images)
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US Chief of Protocol Monica Crowley greets European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the White House before a meeting with President Donald Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky on August 18, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee via Getty Images)
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Sunrise behind the US Capitol illuminates Pennsylvania Avenue on October 26, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
Experts
Bernard Haykel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Jeremy Hunt
Media Fellow
Mary Kissel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Tod Lindberg
Senior Fellow
