Trump promotes deal by accepting no quick fix

It may go down in history as an insolvable riddle whether or not Donald Trump was, as he later argued, tripped by a double negative when he exonerated Russia, which allegedly meddled in his country's 2016 general election that sent him to the White House, when he was expected to condemn it.

Amid a furious backlash at home, even accusations of "treason", the US president explained he had meant to say "wouldn't" when he said "I don't see any reason why it would" be Russia that interfered in the US election.

President Trump believes in risk-taking, such as his meetings with foreign leaders less than popular in the American public, and then has cause to lament he is misunderstood.