OK, Nixon resigning, and JFK being murdered were worse.
However, consider this:
Donald J Trump became the first President in US history to be rebuked by International Association of Chiefs of Police AND the Boy Scouts of America in the SAME week.

Let's keep a running count:
Gives a speech encouraging police brutality.

Rebuked by Police Chiefs.

Gives offensive Speech to BSA.

BSA apologize to their members for the President's speech.

Tries to revive culture wars to appease the Base and Announces a ban on Transgender soldiers,,,,, on Twitter.

His own Joint Chiefs of Staff refuse to implement the ban, "until he tells us what the tweets mean". In apparent defiance  the Chiefs vow  “we will continue to treat all of our personnel with respect.”

Has his Press Secretary resign.

Appoints a chief of communications. And this classy guy gives an interview in which he promises "To not try to suck my own c#*#."

Has his Chief of Staff resign.

Has the Senate reject an Obama Care repeal which the President said would be easy.

Has North Korea defy him by launching an ICBM.

Has the first piece of major legislation passed since his inauguration,,, and it imposes sanctions on Russia for meddling in the 2016 election,,,, which the President doesn't believe happened. Sanctions that the President wanted lifted.

Has Republican Senators warn him not to fire his AG or Bob Mueller.

Had his approval rating hit historic lows for any President.

And now, John Kelly enters as the next guy who is going to fix Trump.
Good luck with that.  


Trump Tries to Regroup as the West Wing Battles Itself

WASHINGTON — President Trump enters a new phase of his presidency on Monday with a new chief of staff but an old set of challenges as he seeks to get back on course after enduring one of the worst weeks that any modern occupant of the Oval Office has experienced in his inaugural year in power.

With his poll numbers at historic lows, his legislative agenda stalled and his advisers busy plotting against one another, Mr. Trump hoped to regain momentum by pushing out his top aide, Reince Priebus, and installing a retired four-star Marine general, John F. Kelly, to take command. But it is far from certain that the move will be enough to tame a dysfunctional White House.

The shake-up followed a week that saw the bombastic, with-me-or-against-me president defied as never before by Washington and its institutions, including Republicans in Congress, his own attorney general, the uniformed military leadership, police officers and even the Boy Scouts. No longer daunted by a president with a Twitter account that he uses like a Gatling gun, members of his own party made clear that they were increasingly willing to stand against him on issues like health care and Russia.

The setbacks came against the backdrop of a West Wing at war with itself, egged on by a president who thrives on conflict and chaos. Mr. Kelly, who had been serving as secretary of homeland security, brings a career of decisive leadership to his new assignment as White House chief of staff. But he confronts multiple power centers among presidential aides, all with independent lines to the man in the Oval Office who resists the discipline and structure favored by generals.

“Everybody knows what needs to be done to fix it, and I think everybody is coming to accept that they’re not going to happen,” said Sara Fagen, a White House political director under President George W. Bush. “And the reason they’re not going to happen is the person at the top of the food chain is not going to change. This is the new normal. This goes down as one of the worst weeks he’s had politically and P.R.-wise, but I don’t think anything will change.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/us/politics/trump-presidency-setbacks.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

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