5 Questions After A Chaotic Week In The Trump White House

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" What a week it was for Donald Trump.

As if everyone didn't know this already — Donald Trump is governing just the way he campaigned. He's a one-man band with an impulsive, seat-of-the-pants management style. As his former rival Jeb Bush correctly predicted way back in the primaries, he's the "chaos candidate" and now the "chaos president."

While it's too soon to subscribe to some of the hyperventilating headlines about a "crisis" in the West Wing, there's no doubt Trump's has been the most chaotic start to any administration in modern times.

Here are five questions about Trump's extraordinary fourth week in office.

1. Has Trump done more in one month than any other president?

Maybe — but not exactly the way he means.

This week started with Trump firing Mike Flynn, his national security adviser, after a news story that Flynn had lied to Vice President Mike Pence about what Flynn said to the Russian ambassador. (Trump had known about that for almost two weeks and failed to inform Pence.)

The week ended with the news that the man Trump chose as his new national security adviser, retired Vice Adm. Robert Harward, had turned him down. Ouch.

In between, there was the withdrawal of Trump's nominee for labor secretary, and the announcement that three congressional committees were investigating repeated contacts between Trump campaign aides and Russian intelligence — including during the time period when U.S. intelligence agencies say Russians were interfering in the U.S. election. "

http://www.npr.org/2017/02/19/516049981/5-questions-after-a-chaotic-week-in-the-trump-white-house?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=politics&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews
 

Hijinx

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" What a week it was for Donald Trump.

As if everyone didn't know this already — Donald Trump is governing just the way he campaigned. He's a one-man band with an impulsive, seat-of-the-pants management style. As his former rival Jeb Bush correctly predicted way back in the primaries, he's the "chaos candidate" and now the "chaos president."

While it's too soon to subscribe to some of the hyperventilating headlines about a "crisis" in the West Wing, there's no doubt Trump's has been the most chaotic start to any administration in modern times.

Here are five questions about Trump's extraordinary fourth week in office.

1. Has Trump done more in one month than any other president?

Maybe — but not exactly the way he means.

This week started with Trump firing Mike Flynn, his national security adviser, after a news story that Flynn had lied to Vice President Mike Pence about what Flynn said to the Russian ambassador. (Trump had known about that for almost two weeks and failed to inform Pence.)

The week ended with the news that the man Trump chose as his new national security adviser, retired Vice Adm. Robert Harward, had turned him down. Ouch.

In between, there was the withdrawal of Trump's nominee for labor secretary, and the announcement that three congressional committees were investigating repeated contacts between Trump campaign aides and Russian intelligence — including during the time period when U.S. intelligence agencies say Russians were interfering in the U.S. election. "

http://www.npr.org/2017/02/19/516049981/5-questions-after-a-chaotic-week-in-the-trump-white-house?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=politics&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews

Gee: I wonder why Trumps Presidency has been so chaotic.
Couldn't have anything to do with Upchuck Schumer and nancy Pelosi fighting every candidate for office.
Pretty sure the media hounding him night and day didn't do it either.
Maybe the CIA and FBI leaking secret intelligence illegally had something to do with it.
Maybe even some half -assed Judge in Bunphuck Washington making a sh1tty ruling on his EO.
(Which by the way may turn into good news, since the new EO ill get around it swiftly.)
 
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