2. President Trump is visiting Paris for Bastille Day celebrations honoring the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I.

The visit appears to be smoothing over an initially strange and tense relationship with President Emmanuel Macron, and possibly vaulting France ahead of Britain and Germany as a point of U.S. contact.

But Mr. Trump’s domestic troubles accompanied him. In comments made to reporters on Air Force One en route to Paris, he said of Donald Trump Jr.: “He’s a good boy. He’s a good kid. And he had a meeting, nothing happened with the meeting.” In Paris, a video of Mr. Trump telling Brigitte Macron, the French president’s wife, that she was “in such good shape” and “beautiful” was widely spread online.