How Trump’s Week 1 Was Different From His Last One

Trump merchandise sold outside of Capitol One Arena

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Today’s notice: What we learned in the past week. How Democrats plan to deal with hostile social media. And wait, did the J6 bomber also get pardoned? (No, but it’s an interesting story anyway.)


Seriously, This Is Happening

On the campaign trail last year, I’d often hear a flip, “Yeah, but he’s never going to do that” from Donald Trump supporters about his more outlandish promises. It was easy to say. After all, the last Trump administration was defined by the 2016 line from Salena Zito, who wrote that the president’s fans took him “seriously, not literally.”