Democrats struggle to keep up with Trump's dizzying pace

Actions are coming at so dizzying a pace that it can be tough to track what Trump has done and what he's turned around and undone.

WASHINGTON — At the start of the week, President Donald Trump warned ominously that the U.S. will retake the Panama Canal or “something very powerful is going to happen.”

By week’s end, he announced that he was killing off a prior mandate for government to buy paper straws, the environmentally friendly sipping utensil that dissolves “disgustingly” in the mouth, he wrote on his social media site.

The two pronouncements bookended a frenetic seven-day period in which Trump also made himself head of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts with creative sway over performances, signed an order banning transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports and cheered on Elon Musk while a cadre of engineers swept into federal agencies to cut staff and programs with an aim to downsize government.

Actions are coming at so dizzying a pace that it can be tough to track what Trump has done and what he's turned around and undone.

At a news conference Tuesday, Trump said that he would send U.S. troops into Gaza, if need be, to stabilize the bombed-out territory. He backtracked two days later in a social media post.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/democrats-struggle-trump-dizzying-pace-rcna191009

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