Deepa Shivaram
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strikes on boats off the coast of Venezuela that the Trump administration says are smuggling drugs.
To complicate matters, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles told Vanity Fair that Trump, quote, wants to keep on blowing boats up until Maduro cries uncle.
implying that Trump wants Maduro out of office.
Trump is facing pushback from voters who aren't happy with his economic agenda.
An NPR-PBS News Marist poll from this week showed just 36 percent approve of his handling of the economy.
But in North Carolina, Trump mocked the term affordability and once again blamed Democrats for high costs.
The president spoke about 90 minutes in a long-winded campaign-style rally speech that included attacks on Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was once an ally to Trump, who now says Greene is a fake.
Trump sees himself as a global peacemaker, and his inability to end the war between Ukraine and Russia, which started in 2022, has been a point of frustration for him.
But now the president is signaling progress in negotiations that took place in recent days in Berlin.
US officials say that as part of the peace deal, Ukraine could get some NATO protections, though they would not be joining the alliance.
But that and other measures are still under discussion.
Deepa Shivaram, NPR News, Washington.
Trump sees himself as a global peacemaker, and his inability to end the war between Ukraine and Russia, which started in 2022, has been a point of frustration for him.
But now the president is signaling progress in negotiations that took place in recent days in Berlin.
officials say that as part of the peace deal, Ukraine could get some NATO protections, though they would not be joining the alliance.
But that and other measures are still under discussion.
Deepa Shivaram, NPR News, Washington.