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This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

I'm your host, Greg Sargent. On Monday afternoon, D Trump angrily tried to put a positive spin on the deepening fiasco

around Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency.

He defended Musk's insane email instructing federal employees to list their accomplishments.

This has been defied by numerous top officials from Trump's own administration,

but Trump said the idea was great and then spread more confusion about it.

All this comes as Trump is getting hit by more terrible poll numbers this time on the economy.

Trump had some spin to offer

on the polls as well. Which raises a question, does there come a point at which these sorts of

bizarre contortions and ramblings undermine support for Trump among the voters who still, for some

reason, see him as a strong, competent, and decisive leader. Right of Susan Milligan has a new

piece for the new republic, looking at how Republicans have been portraying Trump lately as a strong

daddy figure. So we're talking to her about why this portrayal is looking more and more absurd by the

second. Thanks for coming back on, Susan. Glad to be on. Thanks for having me.

Okay, to catch people up, Musk sent this email over the weekend telling federal

employees to list their last week's accomplishments and then said that failure to reply

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