Mind-bogglingly bad

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By Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Updated 10:31 AM ET, Sat September 30, 2017

... Saturday 9/23: Trump disinvites Steph Curry and his Golden State Warrior teammates from the White House ...

Monday 9/25: Trump issues a barrage of early morning tweets continuing his war of words with the NFL and its players. North Korea's foreign minister suggests that Trump's "they won't be around much longer" tweet amounts to a declaration of war. The Trump administration acknowledges that it has no evidence that Iran test-fired a missile over the weekend -- even though Trump tweeted that it had happened on Saturday ...

Tuesday 9/26: Trump .. starts .. with tweets blasting .. NFL players ... Trump, in a joint press conference with the Spanish prime minister, warns North Korea of "devastating" consequences if they continue .. missile testing. Criticism begins to surface that Trump and his administration are not fully focused on .. Puerto Rico ... Senate Republican leaders acknowledge defeat on the health care repeal-and-replace effort ...

Thursday 9/28 ... Trump suggests that .. NFL owners are "afraid" of their players ... Trump reverses course on the Jones Act ... He uses Twitter to play defense on .. Puerto Rico ... CNN breaks the news that .. Kushner didn't disclose .. that he used .. personal email .. to conduct .. White House business ... Elaine Duke .. tells reporters.. of Puerto Rico: "I know it is really a good news story ...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/30/politics/donald-trump-week-in-the-life/index.html

[dalton99a]

1. "purposeful flooding of the news zone by Trump"

There is simply no such thing as a slow news day anymore. Or, well, a weekend. Trump has remade the news cycle.

Doubt it? Try to remember what happened on Monday of this past week. Or Tuesday. There's a <5% chance you can do it. I cover this stuff for a living and I can't. The mind simply can't process this amount of news at the pace at which it currently moves.

There is, of course, strategy in this by Trump. When faced with 20 possible storylines every day, the media can only realistically cover five or six well. Trump's goal is to make it the five or six that work in his favor.

This past seven days is a perfect example of that purposeful flooding of the news zone by Trump. Most people would (rightly) have a sense that it wasn't a great week for him. But, few would grasp how bad it actually was.

[malaise]

2. LOCK UP

this fucking lunatic