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Article snippet: • President Trump is in Brussels on Thursday, on the fourth leg of a grueling first overseas trip as head of state. He will have meetings with expectations are low. • It is his first visit to the Belgian capital — headquarters of the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization — since calling it a “hellhole” after coordinated suicide bombings there last year. Mr. Trump’s arrival was greeted by scattered protests and a sign saying, “Resist” near the United States Embassy. • High on the agenda will be a summit meeting with European Union leaders including Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, and Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission. • European leaders’ main hope is that Mr. Trump will explicitly endorse Article 5 of the Atlantic alliance’s founding treaty, which states the principle that an attack on any member is an attack on all. • In the wake of Mr. Trump’s criticism that the alliance should do more against terrorism, NATO announced that it would formally join the fight against the Islamic State. If there’s any real drama in Mr. Trump’s visit, besides wondering if he will go off script, it will be his comments when he unveils a 9/11 memorial — a piece of twisted metal from the World Trade Center, which was destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks — outside NATO’s new building. (Chancellor Berlin Wall, which came down in 1989, to symbolize how the alliance kept the peace during the Cold War. Potentially awkward: Mrs.... Link to the full article to read more