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The Big NewsTake a deep breath.
If youre reading this the day that it is published, it has only been three weeks since Inauguration Day. It has not yet been a month. You are 1.44 percent through this Trump administration term. Remember the Super Bowl (and Lady Gaga halftime show)? That was this week.
On the bright side, President Trump didnt actually do as many new things this week. Most of the news was bluster, fallout, or follow-up from last weeks events. Unfortunately, there was a lot of bluster, fallout, and follow-up. Lets get to it.
What you might have missedSome antics from the Senate confirmation process:
- New executive orders: On Thursday, Trump signed three new executive orders targeting drug smuggling, immigrants who are in the country illegally, and crimes committed against law enforcement officers.
- Muslim ban a no-go: A panel with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday evening that Trumps Muslim ban will remain blocked while the court weighs its constitutionality, rejecting an appeal from the administration seeking to immediately enforce it.
- Stoking Islamophobia: Defending his Muslim ban, President Trump attacked the media for covering up terrorist attacks. Then the White House put out a list of attacks to try to prove Trumps point  and not only were those attacks actually widely covered, but that list also conspicuously omitted many attacks that werent committed by Islamist extremists, like the Dylann Roof shooting that targeted a historically black church.
- To Russia, with love: In his Super Bowl interview with Bill OReilly, Trump shrugged off Russian President Vladimir Putins history of violent authoritarianism, an unprecedented suggestion that theres a moral equivalence between the U.S. and Russia. The New York Times called out the twos bromance, prompting Trump to claim that they have no relationship at all.
- Unfortunately historic: The Senate split 5050 when confirming Betsy DeVos as Secretary Education, requiring Vice President Pence to cast the deciding vote in her favor. It was the first time in the history of the country that the VP has ever had to break a tie on a cabinet confirmation.
- Nevertheless, she persisted: Senate Republicans voted to silence Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in a rather sexist fashion when she tried to read Coretta Scott Kings 1986 letter objecting to Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) being appointed as a federal judge. Several other Senators continued it for her. (Support our work and youll get the shirt.)
- Lyin Mnuchin: Mounting evidence indicates Treasury Secretary nominee Steve Mnuchin lied during his confirmation hearing, but despite these concerns, Senate Republicans advanced his nomination anyway.
- Unqualified: Despite his record opposing civil rights, Jeff Sessions was confirmed as Attorney General, and despite his blatant opposition to the Affordable Care Act and a litany of scandal, Tom Price was confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Broken Promises
- Green card confusion: The reason it was unclear whether Trumps Muslim ban blocked green-card holders is because White House chief strategist Steve Bannon wanted it to even when Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly intended to exempt them.
- False divestiture: Despite his press conference a few weeks ago with large folders full of seemingly empty paper, Trump is still very closely tied to his company.
- All anti-Trump news is fake: Trump tweeted that any negative polls are fake news, and deputy assistant Sebastian Gorka added that the White House will use the phrase fake media to attack journalists until the media understands how wrong that [anti-Trump] attitude is.
- All anti-Trump protesters are paid: Through protests, town halls, and calls to lawmakers, Americans are engaging in democracy more than ever, but Sean Spicer believes all the protesters must be paid. Kellyanne Conway even told Republican communications staffers on the Hill that it doesnt matter how many constituents are calling with concerns because they dont represent real people.
- Hate since the election: Weve been tracking it; heres what we found.
- Authoritarian update: Trumps getting worse.
This is not normal
- Trump promised to repeal and replace Obamacare immediately, but now its so very complicated that a change wont happen until at least 2018.
- Trump promised he wouldnt take time off and that hed stay in the White House all the time, but all signs suggest he golfed at Mar-A-Lago after just two weeks on the job, and hes definitely planning to golf this weekend with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Trump had a long of history of criticizing President Obama for wasted time golfing, but Obama didnt put in his first 18 holes until hed been on the job for four months
Lie, lies, lies
- Taking a leak: There has been no shortage of stories about how dysfunctional the White Houses operation has been so far. They are disturbing, and they keep coming. The administration has denied many of the leaked accounts and demanded apologies.
- War crime hopes: Trump openly admitted he wants to keep the oil after military operations in the Middle East, even though doing so would be a war crime.
- Never a good sign: White supremacists are delighted that the Trump administration will stop scrutinizing them for radical extremism.
- Behaving like journalists: When members of the press pool tried to ask questions during an executive order signing  as journalists do  Trump kicked them out for not behaving.
- Sexist in chief: This is what it looks like when we elect a sexist: Trump apparently tells female staffers they need to #DressLikeAWoman, and his biggest concern about a Saturday Night Live satire skewering Press Secretary Sean Spicer was that Spicer was portrayed by a woman.
- Disservice to the country: Anybody who criticizes Trumps military actions, including veteran and former prisoner of war Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), is doing a disservice to the soldiers who die in successful operations. The more we learn about the raid in Yemen, the less successful it sounds.
- Melania for the money: First Lady Melania Trump intends to take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, as one of the most photographed women in the world, to profit from deals selling apparel, accessories, shoes, jewelry, cosmetics, hair care, skin care, and fragrance.
- Ivanka for the show: Meanwhile, the White House was shilling all week for Ivanka Trumps Nordstrom line. Trump attacked the company for dropping her products, Spicer defended that attack during a press briefing, and then Kellyanne Conway went on Fox News and blatantly told people to buy Ivankas stuff, which may have been illegal and has alienated Republicans.
- Talk about a bully pulpit: Trump openly offered to help ruin a state senators career
- Another made-up massacre: Trump claimed that the murder rate in our country is the highest its been in 47 years, even though the most recent data (2015) show that the murder rate is still far lower that at most points over the past 50 years.
- Bowling Green, the sequel: Kellyanne Conway tried to claim she misspoke when referencing the completely fictional Bowling Green massacre last week, but then two other interviews surfaced showing her making the same claim. Sean Spicer similarly mentioned an invented terrorist attack in Atlanta on three separate occasions, later claiming he confused Atlanta with Orlando.
- Lying about lying: CNN refused to book Conway as a guest, prompting Conway to claim she wasnt available anyway. Then Spicer claimed CNN retracted its claim that it had refused booking her, which it definitely hadnt. Then Conway inexplicably went back on CNN to deliver some incredible spin defending Trumps lies.
- Fake footage: U.S. Central Command released video clips to suggest the militarys raid in Yemen was a success, but it turns out they were from ten years ago.
- Fake terrorism: One of the terrorist attacks on Trumps list of underreported terrorist attacks wasnt a terrorist attack.
- Fake job creation: Trump took credit for jobs created by Intels new factory in Chandler, AZ even though it was announced six years ago.
- Whos posting fake news?: Trump posted a story on his official Facebook page claiming Kuwait had followed the U.S.s lead in implementing its own Muslim ban, but it was false. The White House also sent out a McClatchy report about the Muslim ban that omitted any reporting that was critical of the executive order.
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