#White House

One of the most unusual — and least discussed — breaks from presidential tradition during Donald Trump’s return to the White House is the near-total absence of First Lady Melania Trump. The New York Times reports that Melania is making a rare appearance this week to unveil a postage stamp honoring

Nate Silver: “On Feb. 1, essentially the same number of Americans strongly approved and disapproved of Trump. Now, strong disapprovers outnumber strong approvers by about a 3-to-2 ratio. It’s hard not to see this as bearish for Trump: his negatives are more entrenched than his positives.”

“President Trump is replacing national security adviser Mike Waltz roughly a month after he put a journalist on a group text chat in which advisers discussed a sensitive military operation, making him the first top official to lose his job in Trump’s second term,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

President Trump’s first 100 days in office have been met with a wave of bleak polling. Across a series of new national surveys, Trump’s approval ratings are deeply underwater, and his handling of the economy—once a relative strength—now ranks poorly alongside nearly every other major issue.

President Trump is taping a new interview this morning with ABC News that will air later today in a rare hour-long network special marking his first 100 days in office. The optics will be as grand as ever: a sit-down in the Oval Office, full prime-time treatment, and all the trappings of