By Skylar Woodhouse | Bloomberg News

President Donald Trump returned to office promising to easily fix generationally intractable problems, from quickly brokering peace in Ukraine and the Middle East to overhauling the federal government and rewriting the global trade order.

But this week showed just how far he is from solving any of them.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ignored his calls for a ceasefire with Ukraine. Trump, after he spent months mocking former President Joe Biden’s efforts to rein in Israel’s military activity, had to cajole Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against a strike on Iran. Billionaire adviser Elon Musk is exiting his high-profile government reform post amid a swirl of stories about interpersonal fighting within the West Wing and his drug use — a

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