“President Trump is pushing aides for a meeting as soon as this fall with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, U.S. officials said, seeking to revive a dramatic diplomatic quest from his first term to convince Kim to abandon his country’s nuclear weapons program,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

New York Times: “Once again, President Trump is threatening his country’s own partners with everything from tariffs to bombs. Once again, he is fawning over a nuclear-armed tyrant deemed to be one of the biggest dangers to U.S. security. And once again, the world is left trying to make sense of a United States that has upended the world order that it established eight decades ago.”

“Nearly 10 years after Mr. Trump first came to the White House on the slogan of America First, his attack-thy-friends, befriend-thy-enemies approach to international relations has become the feature, not the bug, of U.S. foreign policy. Traditional alliances from Europe to Asia to the Middle East have frayed while the president courts those once seen as its adversaries.”

“Even so, the past few days have thrown the Trumpian worldview into stark relief.”

“The Trump administration is still eyeing additional economic measures against Iran after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent indicated announcements would come this week,” Semafor reports.

Said one official: “There are many levers the president can crank harder in the weeks and months ahead. While he has been consistent in saying he prefers a diplomatic solution, he continues to retain all options if Iran continues to engage in terrorism and refuses to make a deal.”

“President Donald Trump has appeared to publicly contradict some of his top advisers on at least three aspects of the war in Iran in recent days, as the conflict continues to impact world oil markets with no clear end in sight,” NBC News reports.

“While the administration has delivered mixed messaging on the conflict almost since the operation began in late February, the president over the past week has made repeated statements that seem to disagree with his own vice president, secretary of state and son-in-law over the goals and current state of the war.”