The Donald’s Dumpster Fire

Updated | It was chaos—even by the standards of Donald Trump.

In one 24-hour period in late July, the president announced—on Twitter—that the U.S. would ban transgender people from serving in the military. Despite Trump’s claims to the contrary, the move stunned the military brass, who said the president’s tweet was not the law of the land.

If that wasn’t bizarre enough, hours later, the new White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, , then White House chief of staff, of leaking information to the press. “If Reince wants to explain that he’s not a leaker, let him do that,” Scaramucci fumed on CNN. On top of that, he that Priebus is a “fucking paranoid schizophrenic.” (Trump later replaced his chief of staff with John Kelly.) Across town, Senate Republicans were unable to repeal Obamacare, while the president