We've got a lot to get to in the next hour of the readout, including Pam Bondi,

Trump's second choice Florida pal newly sworn in as attorney general by Clarence Thomas,

of course, after vowing with a straight face to end the weaponization of the DOJ,

then almost immediately doing exactly the opposite by launching a probe of duly sworn prosecutors,

Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg, and Leticia James for the apparent crime of prosecuting the crimes of Donald Trump.

Plus, we're awaiting the Senate confirmation vote for Russell vote, the self-proclaimed Christian nationalist and godfather of Project 2025, which Trump dishonestly denied knowing anything about.

But we begin tonight with Donald Trump's shock and awe strategy, which is starting to feel a lot like more shock and a little less awe.

He's been making a blizzard of moves in these first 18 days of his second administration, meant to

inspire fear and outrage, creating problems and

then pretending to solve them so that he can look like a savior, keeping his promises to his

base. And while it's all really bad and destructive, I think it's important to sort out the actual

fires from the smoke and mirrors, because let's face it, we can't react to everything

effectively all at the same time. But that's what autocrats and cool leaders want, right? While we're

running from fire to fire, Trump and Elon's little doge gang are dismantling our federal

government from within. So just for a moment, let's just take a step back and look at what he's been saying

versus what he's been doing. Trump announced 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada, which sent the

markets into a tizzy, all for him to pull a reverse at the last minute, claiming he got major

concessions, when in

reality, Mexico and Canada basically reiterated the same border security measures they had already

agreed to under Joe Biden. Trump backed down and got nothing. The administration is also

blitzing the airwaves and social media with terrifying pictures of what they claim is the largest deportation

operation in American history. But as political reports, the number of daily ICE arrests

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