"Instead, Mr. Trump chose to listen to other aides who shared his outrage and desire to punch back"

[Miles Archer]

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s first weekend in office unfolded much the way things often did during his campaign: with angry Twitter messages, a familiar obsession with slights and a series of meandering and at times untrue statements, all eventually giving way to attempts at damage control.

The problem is that what works on the way to the White House does not always work once a candidate gets there.

To the extent that there was a plan to take advantage of the first days of his administration, when a president is usually at his maximum leverage, Mr. Trump threw it aside with a decision to lash out about crowd sizes at his swearing in and to rewrite the history of his dealings with intelligence agencies.

The lack of discipline troubled even senior members of Mr. Trump’s circle, some of whom had urged him not to indulge his simmering resentment at what he saw as unfair news coverage. Instead, Mr. Trump chose to listen to other aides who shared his outrage and desire to punch back. By the end of the weekend, he and his team were scrambling to get back on script.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/us/politics/donald-trump-aides-rocky-first-weekend.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

[Vinca]

1. Trump is probably the easiest person to needle in the world.

He's dim witted and thin skinned and won't listen to anyone but his inner voice and all that says is "I love you, Donald."

[Baitball Blogger]

4. And Putin would have known this sooner than we did.

Trump is easily played.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Trump is small

In every regard

[Hoyt]

3. Even the Scarboroughs wete bashing him for focusing on crowd size when

there are so many important issues. They got him on NATO, etc., too.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. It is going to be like this every day for the next 4 years.

[madokie]

6. tRump is

a lying no good sob who will stab you or me in the back if it would make him a buck. I trust him about as much as I do a cotton mouth moccasin.

We can't get rid of him soon enough. Thin skin, hateful and very much unbecoming of a president

[dalton99a]

7. "I have the best temperament or certainly one of the best temperaments of anybody that's ever run

for the office of president. Ever." - Jul 29, 2016

[truebluegreen]

8. I personally am shocked, Shocked!

that that was the choice he made.
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Actually what's really shocking is that any of his handlers ever thought it would be a different choice.