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Am I the only one who's finds the daily whirlwind of controversy, accusations, counter-accusations, allegations, breathless reporting from anonymous sources, non-answers, implausible excuses, implausible spin, angry protests, and shameless behavior that makes up the Trump presidency increasingly . . . boring? Increasingly predictable?

This morning, Mike Allen of Axios opens his newsletter by reemphasizing that everything we've seen from the president and his family in the past few weeks is "not normal." No kidding. Normalcy departed around the time Scott Walker left the presidential race. Normalcy isn't coming back until the Trump presidency ends, and only God knows whether that will occur seven years from now or sometime sooner.

But we've lived with the abnormalcy for so long now, it may not seem all that new or surprising anymore. Heck, it's almost predictable.

At some point, either today or in the coming days, President Trump will tweet something that ...

July 13 2017

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Tomorrow's News Today

Jim Geraghty

Am I the only one who's finds the daily whirlwind of controversy, accusations, counter-accusations, allegations, breathless reporting from anonymous sources, non-answers, implausible excuses, implausible spin, angry protests, and shameless behavior that makes up the Trump presidency increasingly . . . boring? Increasingly predictable?

This morning, Mike Allen of Axios opens his newsletter by reemphasizing that everything we've seen from the president and his family in the past few weeks is "not normal." No kidding. Normalcy departed around the time Scott Walker left the presidential race. Normalcy isn't coming back until the Trump presidency ends, and only God knows whether that will occur seven years from now or sometime sooner.

But we've lived with the abnormalcy for so long now, it may not seem all that new or surprising anymore. Heck, it's almost predictable.

At some point, either today or in the coming days, President Trump will tweet something that ...

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