Just like elections, actions also have consequences, and President Trump's haphazard methods

may have caught up with them this week.

Tonight, the far-reaching repercussions of Trump's erratic managerial style.

Next.

Good evening and welcome to Washington Week.

I'm Franklin IV. Jeffrey Goldberg is away.

President Trump's move fast and break things approach to running the country may need some

finessing as evidenced this week by the trade war he started and just as abruptly ended.

And by the reported confrontation at the White House between members of his own cabinet

and Alon Musk.

Here to help us sort through Trump's Week of Whiplash are Dan Baltz, the chief correspondent

at the Washington Post.

Eugene Daniels is the newly named senior Washington correspondent and co-host of the weekend on MSNBC.

Michelle Price is a White House reporter at the Associated Press, and Kayla Taushy is a senior

White House correspondent for CNN. So, Kayla, the big narrative of the first bit of the Trump

administration, I think, has been the unimpeded

power of Alon Musk.

And this time, for the first time, we have some evidence that there was this confrontation

in the cabinet room between Musk and other members of the cabinet.

Take us into the room.

What happened? Well, this had been something that was brewing for quite a long time.

When Elon Musk and his Doge team went to shutter USAID, or as Elon said, feed it into the wood chipper,

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