News Analysis: Isolated more than ever, Trump is left in crisis by his own missteps
Seldom in his three and a half years in the Oval Office has President Trump appeared so alienated from so many as he has this week.
His decision to invoke a military response to nationwide protests against police brutality — symbolized by the move Monday to gas mostly peaceful protesters in a park across from the White House to clear the way for a staged photo outside a church — appears to have been a fateful miscalculation.
The incident has created a deep rift between the White House and the Pentagon, and drew an extraordinary rebuke from Trump's former secretary of Defense, James N. Mattis, a widely admired retired four-star Marine Corps general, who in an essay accused the president of making a “mockery of our Constitution.”
Images of a widening perimeter of fences and concrete barriers that the administration has erected in a several-block area around the White House, as federal agents and troops patrol key intersections, have only deepened the sense of Trump as an isolated, beleaguered figure.
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He shit his bed. Let him sleep in it.
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