DISCLAIMER: This article was first published in April 2026. He started it. Now he needs to end it. And nobody in the West Wing quite knows how. TIME’s new cover story lands at the worst possible moment for the White House. Reporter Eric Cortellessa spent weeks inside the administration’s deliberations and came out with a portrait of a president trapped by his own war, searching for an exit that does not make him look like he lost. The situation…
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