"It's nice to start Update with some good news for once: There's peace in the Middle East," Colin Jost cracked on "Saturday Night Live." "The only downside is, there's war in Chicago."

A laugh line, but also a telling truth. Those two words, peace and war, reflect two different sides of Donald Trump. Two different political strategies in two different forums. Two different views of the world.

Trump sees himself as the world's best dealmaker, and openly yearns for the highest honor a dealmaker can receive: the Nobel Peace Prize. (After all, there's no Nobel War Prize.) And even his Democratic rivals must admit that his brief but triumphal visit to the Middle East celebrated a singular achievement: a ceasefire after two years of brutal warfare.

The president received a standing ovation in

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