As the we move into the second month of the Second Trump Era, the nation’s news cycle is spinning faster than the planet Jupiter (which rotates about 2.5 times as fast as Earth, as I recently learned).

Trump’s trade war on Mexico and Canada? That was before the full-fledged media panic attack over Elon Musk’s quants visiting the Treasury Department and USAID. And that was before President Trump announced that the United States would be taking “an ownership position” in the Gaza Strip.

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