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They allowed all of his Cabinet picks to be confirmed, protested the president’s speech to a joint session of Congress with a spattering of paddles that was largely deemed an embarrassing failure, and, most recently, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer actually whipped Democratic votes to pass Republicans’ government spending bill without securing a single Democratic priority.

In his address to a joint session of Congress on March 4, Trump complained that countries across the globe place tariffs on U.S.-made goods.

After the joint session of Congress last month, he walked down to the Supreme Court justices in attendance and shook Chief John Roberts' hand saying, "thank you , thank you, I won't forget it."

The president, whose campaign website promised to “end censorship and reclaim free speech,” and who bragged to a joint session of Congress that he “brought free speech back to America,” has launched a fairly massive effort to punish not just protests on America’s college campuses — a cause that arouses some sympathy from me when those protests venture outside the confines of mere speech — but also on school curricula and internal policies.

As compared to the debacle that was his meeting with Zelenskyy, Trump's address to a Joint Session of Congress last week was an opportunity for Trump to revel in his power as president and leader of the American "spectocracy."