NIKKI HALEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The US Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, is going through one of the roughest patches in her public career. She still appears on the front pages with pronouncements at the UN, but her star, which was burning so brightly in the first year of the Trump administration, is beginning to dim significantly in the second year. Here are some of the things which have put a dent in her stature. Haley did not attend the summit in Singapore between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un. Though it’s unclear whether she was included in preparations or even invited, her absence was quite noticeable. Haley had been one of Trump’s first choices for a top-level foreign policy position, had been granted Cabinet-level rank by Trump as his UN envoy and tasked by him to push his ‘America First’ policies at the UN. And, in fact, she led the fight in the UN Security Council to successfully impose stricter sanctions on North Korea, citing it as one of her accomplishments. Yet, in this, Trump’s most important foreign policy foray of his presidency, she may have been left out.”
-Stephen Schlesinger, “Nikki Haley’s dimming star,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, June 25, 2018 2:10 pm