Albert R. Hunt, Columnist

Welcome Back to Your Swamp, Mr. President

That Saudi sword dance was kind of fun. Facing Robert Mueller won’t be.

May 28, 2017 at 2:00 PM UTC

Albert R. Hunt is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He was the executive editor of Bloomberg News, before which he was a reporter, bureau chief and executive Washington editor at the Wall Street Journal.

On the road.
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Welcome home, Mr. President. It’s gotten worse while you were away.

Problem-plagued presidents love to travel abroad, to be welcomed by overhead jets, sword dances and lots of pomp and photo-ops. But then they have to return. When President Donald Trump comes home this week, he’ll have to confront the reaction to his widely ridiculed budget. He’ll have to deal with the struggle by congressional Republicans to patch together a politically unpopular health care bill, a government with scores of high-level vacancies and a White House wracked by dissension and leaks.