Trump finds governing harder than it looks: 'As a businessman he could negotiate'

President Trump campaigned as the redeemer for what ails Washington, proclaiming he alone could disrupt the Beltway crowd and mend the messes that have accumulated over decades.

“Nobody knows the system better than me,” he told the GOP convention in Cleveland. “That’s why I alone can fix it.”

Turns out, it’s harder than it looks.

With trade deficits exploding against Mr. Trump’s wishes, North Korea now eyeing a nuclear restart and Congress refusing to repeal Obamacare, fund his full border wall or speed through his NAFTA replacement, he’s facing the...