“Trump to hold first news conference as President”

President Donald Trump will hold his first news conference as commander in chief Friday. Joining Trump will be British counterpart Theresa May for a Q&A with the press at the White House. Joint news conferences with a foreign leader are typically part of the schedule when a foreign leader visits. Trump and May, who took office in July, both have strong political incentives to make the visit a roaring success. The Prime Minister is telling Britons their country will be a robust global trading power once it has exited the European Union, and a free-trade pact with the US is the most important pillar of that plan. Trump also has an interest in talking up a trade deal. The envisioned agreement with Britain is exactly the kind of bilateral pact that the Trump administration says is the model for US trade policy going forward. Trump will field questions at a time when his foreign policy vision and tone is being heavily scrutinized, particularly after a fight with Mexico that resulted in the Mexican president canceling his visit to the White House.

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