“Do you have the stamina to make it through four years of this?”

That’s the question one of my top DC sources asked me, slightly-tongue-in-cheek, this morning. I was checking in because I’ve been away in Europe and London for a few days, and I’ve also been focused on the copy-edits of my upcoming book with James Patterson. So the volley of extraordinary headlines flying out of the White House over the weekend, and last night, made me feel utterly disoriented, as if I’ve been away for a year, not a few days. In this short timespan, Trump appointed Marco Rubio acting head of USAID, having just abolished USAID (apparently the website went dark while Rubio was in transit and taken completely by surprise), and started to dismantle the CIA.

This was all before last night’s press conference with Bibi Netanyahu. My source told me that, like many of you probably, he’d checked out for an hour or so just to have an early dinner, but on re-emerging discovered that we were now possibly going to war: occupying Gaza, forcing 2 million Palestinians out, and rebuilding the place as “the Riviera of the Middle East.”

It’s enough to cause anyone indigestion.

So, several thoughts on this…

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