TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump is sick of losing. More than 70 days into his tenure, the president has yet to autograph a major piece of legislation. He lost his pseudo–Muslim ban to the courts, Obamacare repeal to the House GOP, and his national security adviser to a scandal that casts a shadow over his entire administration. Now, his party is struggling just to keep the government open through the end of next month, and his approval rating is dipping lower than Obama’s ever did.
The White House knows it needs to make a change. And this week, Chief of Staff Reince Priebus’s deputy, Katie Walsh, left the White House to help launch Trump’s outside group, America First Policies. In an interview with Axios, Trump’s top aides framed Walsh’s departure as a sign of the administration’s Sillicon Valley–esque openness to creative destruction.
[D]uring the conversation one of the officials made a revealing comment. He views the Trump White House in terms that could be applied to the iterative process of designing software. It’s a beta White House.”
-Eric Levitz, “President Trump Has Tried Nothing and He’s All Out of Ideas,” New York Magazine, March 31, 2017 11:40am