@GlobalNav: I don't see him getting a second term. His own party is getting weary of his act ... and I'll suggest that they are fully aware that he isn't of their party and never was. He is of the Trump party. Whatever show/action, on whatever stage, that he sees as promoting the Trump brand he'll undertake. Trade? War? Immigration? Treaties? Deals? Whatever he thinks makes him look good.
They (GOP congress types) are having morning after regrets, and no cigarette.
The night before (as it were) if you watched the GOP primaries, they had asked him if he'd "respect them in the morning" and he made clear that "he didn't respect them now." And they still went to bed with him.
PJ O'Rourke's Parliament of Whores, brought to life.
It is disturbing to see that these folks have the power to declare war, while he (Trump) has war powers that can be exercised short of a war declaration. Lots of them, and about 60 years of precedent. Uncomfortable days ahead.
Our winged brethren are going to be sent forth as one more act for this show: in the theater of the absurd. Blood sport, in a curious version of the game.