White House Ends 10th Week Like Others: Embroiled in Controversies

The Trump White House on Friday ended the week in a manner that has become routine: embroiled in controversies that staffers struggle to explain and that threaten the president’s legislative agenda.

The beginning of the week mirrored the pattern of most of the nine of Donald Trump’s presidency that came before it — recovering from a setback, this time in the form of the collapse of the GOP-crafted health bill’s failure. 

Trump held meetings with Cabinet officials, manufacturing executives, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the prime minister of Denmark, led a “women’s empowerment panel” in the ornate East Room, received daily intelligence briefings, and signed a long-awaited executive targeting the Obama administration’s rules to combat climate change, the Clean Power Plan.

All indications suggested the president and his senior team were aiming for a quiet week after the health bill in the face of House Republican opposition.

Then, Thursday happened. And it bled into Friday.

The president began and ended his working day Thursday attacking House Republicans on Twitter, using evening tweets to call out House Freedom Caucus leaders by name. He blamed them for wrecking the health bill and, jarringly, also a tax overhaul package that has yet to be crafted.

Trump was back at it on Twitter the Friday morning, seeking to influence two congressional investigations into possible ties between Russia and his campaign associates.

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