President Trump will celebrate his 80th birthday Sunday with a night of UFC fights on the South Lawn of the White House. It’s yet more proof that Trump is radically different from other presidents. And the spectacle carries risks as well as rewards, even as it plays into Trump’s love of showmanship and ardor for...

President Trump upended expectations yet again when he told reporters Thursday he would be “honored” to meet Iran’s supreme leader in the event of a peace deal. “If we make a deal, it’s possible that I would meet him,” the president said in the Oval Office. The idea of a meeting between Trump and Mojtaba...

There’s a new, favorite Beltway game: evaluating the performance of the big figures in the Trump administration who have stepped to the lectern to conduct White House briefings. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mehmet Oz, who on Tuesday became the latest person to fill the role, even gave his own — relentlessly...

This time it’s different — maybe. President Trump announced a “great settlement of the war with Iran” when he spoke to reporters in the Oval Office Thursday afternoon. It was an abrupt turn, even by his standards, from a morning social media post in which he pledged that the United States was about to hit Iran...

President Trump’s favored candidate to become Los Angeles mayor looks like he won’t even make the runoff — a reality that has provoked a barrage of unsubstantiated claims of fraud from the commander in chief. Votes are still being counted in the nation’s second-largest city, where a high proportion of ballots are customarily cast by...