HAPPILY, HIS FAILURES ARE AMERICA'S SUCCESS:

Despite dizzying sound and fury, the president failed to halt immigration from Muslim countries, to label China a currency manipulator, to deliver a serious plan for funding his border wall or to repeal Obamacare--all among his many promises during last year's campaign. He even weakened ethics rules affecting lobbyists, in the guise of a promised ban.

The Muslim travel ban, Trump's most consequential and controversial executive order, one of 23 signed so far, lies dead in the courts. He has achieved no noticeable progress on tax reform. The White House is already facing multiple investigations by a Republican-controlled Congress while the intelligence community investigates possible collusion last year between Trump's campaign and Russia. Trump has appointed just three of the 15 required deputy secretary Cabinet positions; fewer than 40 of the 700 key administration jobs requiring Senate confirmation have been filled. [...]

"There's no precedent in the modern history of the presidency for what we've seen over the last month," said Republican operative Steve Schmidt. "If you combine the dishonesty, the sloppiness and incompetence, the result is deep concern and anxiety across allied capitals, glee in the capitals of foreign enemies, and an American public that regard him one month in with the lowest levels of support in the modern era. We've just never seen an American administration collapse from a credibility perspective as quickly as this one has."

According to Gallup, Trump's 40 percent approval rating after one month is 21 points below the historical average rating for new presidents in mid-February and 11 points below the lowest mid-February rating for any other new president.

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