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100 days of Trump: A political performance or actual incompetence?

Are Trump's stumbles a brilliant ploy to "deconstruct the state"?

Donald Trump, Melania Trump
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President Donald Trump pats a US Marine on the back after he and first lady Melania Trump walked Argentine President Mauricio Macri and his wife Juliana Awada to their vehicle outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington

John Feffer | FPIF
If I were a Trump supporter, I’d be furious at the coverage of the president’s first 100 days. The mainstream media has engaged in a bout of competitive schadenfreude as headline writers and columnists vie for the distinction of deriving the most pleasure from the administration’s failures.
 
Pundits and journalists have made much of the legislation unpassed, the positions unfilled, the appointments unseated, and the promises unmet. It is of a piece with the campaign coverage.
 
This was, after all, the un-president: a man without qualifications to serve, without a popular mandate from the voters, and, once elected,

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