WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed a rare earths and critical minerals deal Monday at the White House during Trump’s latest bilateral meeting with yet another world leader.

Trump, fresh off a trip to the Middle East to codify a historic peace deal followed by a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last week, hosted Albanese in the Cabinet Room on Monday during a press conference.

“So we’re going to be here to talk about lots of lots of different things, and we might take a few questions before, but we are discussing critical minerals and rare earths, and we’re going to be signing an agreement that’s been negotiated over a period of four or five months,” Trump said moments before the signing.

“And it was sort of good t

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