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Trump, has narrowed an Obama all government reform to help free Americans held oversees.

James O’Brien, a veteran diplomat who was named the first U.S. Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs, as part of the Obama reforms, credited Trump with raising the cases of individual captives with foreign leaders. But he said that Trump’s limited understanding of how government works curtails the impact of these personal efforts. The centralized nature of decision-making around Trump and a handful of his key aides means that hostage cases aren’t fully integrated into foreign-policymaking, O’Brien said; Trump’s speech last week confronting Iran, for example, could have linked sanctions to the safe return of the seven Americans currently missing or imprisoned in the country.

“I would give Trump credit for raising the cases he raises, but I think every President does that,” O’Brien said. “Obama made the whole government work on this. Trump is willing to intervene where he can, and that is always going to be a narrower approach.”

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/is-trump-helping-to-free-american-hostages-worldwide

To add opportunity for him to bask in his needy, self-perceived, personal glory, of course.