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I want to quote as some length an article from Politico, hardly a left wing publication. "In interviews, nearly two dozen people who’ve spent time with Trump in the three weeks since his inauguration said that his mood has careened between surprise and anger as he’s faced the predictable realities of governing...Trump often asks simple questions about policies, proposals and personnel. And, when discussions get bogged down in details, the president has been known to quickly change the subject — to "seem in control at all times," one senior government official said — or direct questions about details to his chief strategist Steve Bannon, his son-in-law Jared Kushner or House Speaker Paul Ryan. Trump has privately expressed disbelief over the ability of judges, bureaucrats or lawmakers to delay — or even stop — him from filling positions and implementing policies. The president and his allies believe career NSC staff assigned from other agencies are out to get them. ...

Well, two days really, but who is counting? Let's start out with some foreign policy WINNING from the man who knows more than all the generals: "In his first call as president with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump denounced a treaty that caps U.S. and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads as a bad deal for the United States, according to two U.S. officials and one former U.S. official with knowledge of the call. When Putin raised the possibility of extending the 2010 treaty, known as New START, Trump paused to ask his aides in an aside what the treaty was, these sources said." He's negotiating with Putin and he never even heard of the most important US-Russia nuclear treaty in existence.  But wait, there's more foreign policy WINNING today: "Trump, Changing Course on Taiwan, Gives China an Upper Hand...BEIJING — By backing down in a telephone call with China’s president on his promise to review the status of Taiwan, President Trum...

Just a few of today's atrocities: Well, Trump and his Republican colleagues have succeeded in one of the most corrupt, hateful act in the entire history of the United States- making a criminal, lying, racist, white supremacist the Attorney General of the United States.  Not much more to say about that, but I'd like to quote one of the money passages from the now-infamous Coretta Scott King letter, sent to the Senate when Reagan tried to make him a federal judge, and which Republicans managed to keep out of the Senate record until they took on a true hero, Elizabeth Warren: "I write to express my sincere opposition to the confirmation of Jefferson B. Sessions as a federal disctrict court judge for the Southern District of Alabama. My professional and personal roots in Alabama are deep and lasting. Anyone who has used the power of his office as United States Attorney to intimidate and chill the free exercise of the ballot by citizens should not be elevated to our courts....