As President Trump looks to his next 100 days in office, White House officials said his focus can be summarized in five words: Trade deals and peace deals.

Trump’s first 100 days in office saw a flood of executive action to rapidly deliver on key campaign promises around immigration and culture war issues, as well as a blitz against major agencies to slash the scope and size of government staffing and spending.

Trump is expected to take additional deregulatory actions and sign more executive actions to enforce immigration and other aspects of his agenda, officials said.

But as Trump charts the path forward, the president and his aides are devoting significant time and resources to trying to negotiate trade deals to resolve tariff disputes and the potential economic fallout largely created by Trump’s own policies.

Trump is also expected to focus in the weeks ahead on foreign policy, where he has struggled to deliver on a pledge to end the war in Ukraine and has kept a close eye on the Middle East.

"I think we’re now entering this new era where we’ll now be able to focus on peace and prosperity,” a White House official said. “Peace in the world, prosperity at home by fixing our trade relationships and finding peace deals."

White House officials indicated that trade deals would be at the center of Trump’s agenda and schedule in the coming weeks. The president announced earlier this month a 90-day pause on “reciprocal” tariffs for many countries to allow for talks, creating a deadline of July 8.

Senior trade adviser Peter Navarro has suggested there could be “90 deals in 90 days.”

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters last week that the administration had 18........

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