This is the best first week for Trump we could have hoped for. Yes, best.

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16. do you personally know any Trump voters? I do and they are crazy and/or dumb

which is why it worked during the election. It is the same 27% crazification factor we've seen for years and this time they voted for Trump. Problem is, now he has to play on a world stage. Anyone who is not crazy looks at him and freaks out.

He is hurting the GOP in congress and their dreams of drowning the gov't in the bathtub. I'm holding my breath on this, but so far the press has been doing a decent job. The editorial cartoons are brutal IN THE FIRST WEEK! His approval is down to 36% IN THE FIRST WEEK. All of the shit he has "done" so far is going nowhere. His executive orders are a joke. Compare them to Obama's EO on Dreamers or DACA. All Obama did in those orders is tell his agency to arrest and deport others and leave the dreamers and DACA alone. That is clearly within the executive power, setting priorities within government happens all the time. Obama set priorities. Now look at Trump stopping funding for ads running to sign people up for ObamaCare. He probably has the power to do that but he backed down the very next day because of all the pressure he got. And the humiliation over the wall, agreeing not to bring it up again? Sheesh, it was his brand, now he's been silenced by "a Mexican". Finally, look at the British PM. She leaves telling the world that Donald assured her he loves NATO on the same day Trump says he's not going to rescind the sanctions on Russia.

I think Japan agreeing to meet with China for the first time in forever because they know Trump is unreasonable and the PLO begging Russia to save them from Trump should have scared the shit out of a lot of people. Trump goes down this road and we are no longer the superpower. China and Russia (and maybe Mexico?) will be in the hunt. If the GOP is willing to sell all that to get tax cuts for the rich, they are worse than even I thought and I thought they were the scum of the earth. They know that getting a tax cut at the expense of the power and prestigue we would lose is too high a price. They are scared shitless to move in any direction.

But what surprises me the most is the leaks. They are coming from everywhere. Even the White House janitor must be leaking because he is freaked out.