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What Trump Has Lost So Far in Washington
His damaged reputation will be difficult to restore. But President Clinton pulled it off after a rough start.
His best chance is probably gone.
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Perhaps in a sign that the White House is beginning to understand the folly of simply claiming that everything is going fantastically well, a senior official tried a new approach last week: he framed the chaos as part of the kind of work in progress celebrated in Silicon Valley. "It's a beta White House," Axios wrote in summing up the interview.
That's unlikely. I think a better read is Dan Drezner's analysis that President Trump is particularly bad at realizing what he doesn't know, and therefore will be particularly unable to improve things. And there's no sign of improvement so far.