A young demonstrator writes slogans on the pavement during a protest against the government of President Nicolás Maduro in the streets of Caracas, Venezuela, on February 2nd, 2019.
Friends and relatives carry the coffin containing the body of the student Gerald Velazquez, shot dead during clashes with riot police in a church near the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua.
People react and wave flags outside the Justice and Development Party (AKP) headquarters in Istanbul, on June 24th, 2018, during the Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections.
Whoever sets the president's agenda possesses a great deal of power. Often, that role belongs to the major political parties, or the president's most immediate set of advisers—but Trump's relationship with both is tenuous at best.
The president has an unusual ability to draw attention to himself, but news coverage is finite, and other issues may be getting less attention as a result.