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I'm Harry Littman. Compounding his spectacular list of faults as president,

mendacity, an insatiable thirst for power and revenge, open contempt for the rule of law,

Donald Trump remains the most erratic president in modern memory. He governs by comprease, impulse, and an unwavering

conviction that declaring victory is more important than achieving it. Last week, Trump appeared

to shift course, perhaps in response to the broadly negative reviews of his first hundred days

back on the political stage.

He sat down for interviews with members of the legacy media he routinely demonizes,

this after years of trashing them as corrupt and dishonest. On Meet the Press, Trump played

coy about the prospect of a third term in 200828 and, in a rare nod to reality,

acknowledged the country's economic pain, though predictably he pinned it all on Biden.

Trump backpedaled and sidestepped on his blanket tariff policy, but with little to show for it. He touted a vague

plan with Great Britain so hazy as to be almost without substance. Meanwhile, he prepared for a new

round of tariff negotiations with China, a country that so far has met his bluster with stony

indifference. Plus, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney

swively chopped him down to size in an Oval Office meeting. And Trump had to accept defeat in the

confirmation battle over Ed Martin, which effectively died when a Republican senator on the Judiciary Committee broke ranks.

Martin was a disaster of a candidate, but then again, so were Cash Patel, R.FK Jr., Pete Hegsseth,

and Gabby Hubbard, and Trump fought noticeably harder for each of them.

Yet, even as Martin's defeat was sinking in,

Trump wasted no time installing Janine Perrault as interim U.S. attorney in D.C.

Perrault's a Fox News personality turned MAGA foot soldier who spent 2020 amplifying Trump's

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