Opening First Foreign Trip, Donald Trump Tries to Leave Crisis Behind<br />By PETER BAKERMAY 19, 2017<br />WASHINGTON — President Trump embarked on Friday on his first foreign mission since taking office, beginning a challenging nine-day, multistop, multifaceted journey to the Middle East<br />and Europe and leaving behind a capital consumed by investigations and intrigue.<br />Mara Rudman said that The president must be able to compartmentalize to survive the rigors of the job,<br />"Will be strongly protecting American interests — that’s what I like to do!" Traveling with him were his wife, Melania Trump,<br />and his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as well aides including Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, and Gary Cohn, the national economics adviser.<br />"He could be disappointed, he could be outraged for a few minutes,<br />and then he could click it off and go into Middle East peace negotiations." Whether Mr. Trump can do the same will be a test for a president not known for his message discipline.<br />An inaugural foreign trip would have been daunting for a diplomatic novice under any circumstances, given the panoply of complicated issues<br />that will confront Mr. Trump, including terrorism, religion, economics, Middle East peace, the war in Afghanistan, the future of NATO and Russian aggression.<br />" Mr. Lockhart said. that The idea that when the president is overseas everybody puts their guns down and waits till he gets back home is long gone,
