U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak at White House

U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak at White House his behavior, and will snap back in the next presidency. But that doesn't mean virtuous norms will hold majority of the other presidential norms that Trump has defied will similarly be strengthened by the reactions to elsewhere. During the presidential campaign, Trump gave his challengers derogatory nicknames. Hillary Clinton was "Crooked Hillary." Jeb Bush was "Low-Energy Jeb." Ted Cruz was "Lyin' Ted." And Marco Rubio was "Little uniform outcry that will reinforce norms for future presidents about denouncing racism and racial violence. The Marco." Trump's taunts exceeded the bounds of campaign decorum but generated attention and helped distinguish him pushback. Trump's response to the violent demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August produced a from the stale, conventional elite wisdom reflected by other candidates in both parties. (Norm-breaking helped him more during the campaign than it has in the presidency.) Two days before Super Tuesday, on February 28, implicitly, by his own Justice Department appointees, who have continued the Russia investigation despite his 2016, Rubio decided to fight back. "Have you seen his hands?, " Rubio asked the audience at a rally at Roanoke but by more-sympathetic voices in the Republican Party and on the Wall Street Journal editorial page, and even, College. "You know what they say about men with small hands." The college students loved the juvenile humor, and condemned. He has been rebuked for his attacks on investigatory independence not just by his political opponents Rubio briefly got the increased cable coverage he sought. But he had sacrificed his integrity, and his campaign

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officials. The first, in February 2017, concerned a December 2016 court-approved National Security Agency wiretap longer." The most-harmful leaks have been of information collected in the course of surveillance of Russian of a phone conversation between the Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, and the incoming national-security adviser, Michael Flynn, that included a discussion of U.S. sanctions against Russia. (This was speak candidly on the phone to Washington, D.C.—at least for the duration of this presidency, and perhaps for the leak that exposed Flynn's lies and led to his resignation.) Other leaks by current and former intelligence "unprecedented, shocking, and dangerous, " as David Frum wrote for The Atlantic's website. "No leader will again officials have involved intercepts of Russian government officials discussing "derogatory" information about Trump and his campaign staff; of other Russian officials bragging that they could use their relationship with conversations Trump had had with the prime minister of Australia and the president of Mexico. These leaks were Flynn to influence Trump; of Kislyak claiming to have discussed campaign-related issues with then-Senator information that have never been leaked before. In August, The Washington Post published complete transcripts of Sessions; and of Kislyak reporting to Moscow that Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, wanted to establish a secure from career civil servants who seek to discredit or undermine the president. And many involve types of communication channel. The leaks of Russia intercepts may seem commonplace, but they violated taboos that had

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force empowering the opposition and should be regarded as a primary target of any political strategy, " Unz wrote. influential former publisher of The American Conservative, made in a memo last year. "The media is the crucial "Discrediting the media anywhere weakens it everywhere." Citizens' trust in American institutions has been in Republicans will likely perpetuate his strategy. Many on the right increasingly agree with a point Ron Unz, the decline for a while. That's one reason Donald Trump was elected. His assault on those institutions, and the defiant reactions to his assault, will further diminish that trust and make it yet harder to resolve social and trajectories. And because Trump's extreme media-bashing is perceived to have served him relatively well, other political disputes. The breakdown in institutions mirrors the breakdown in social cohesion among citizens that those questions are no and yes, respectively. The media have every incentive to continue on their current was also a major cause of Trumpism, and that Trumpism has churned further. This is perhaps the worst news of all terms of the relationship between the person in the White House, people in power, and the media?" The answers to for our democracy. As Cass Sunstein lamented in his book #Republic, "Members of a democratic public will not do well if they are unable to appreciate the views of their fellow citizens, if they believe 'fake news, ' or if they House correspondent Peter Baker asked his Times colleagues. "Have we changed something in a fundamental way in one of the most popular online game for mobile phone users. It has millions of players and fans. Clash of Clans is available Trump and Putin shared second undisclosed meeting at G20 Jay Sekulow, one of the president's private lawyers, the president's tax returns would be outside that investigation, " said a close adviser to the president. said in an interview Thursday that the president and his legal team are intent on making sure Mueller stays departure. Corallo did not respond to immediate requests for comment. "If you're looking at Russian collusion, within the boundaries of his assignment as special counsel. He said they will complain directly to Mueller if lawyers, the team's spokesman, Mark Corallo, resigned on Thursday, according to two people familiar with his necessary. "The fact is that the president is concerned about conflicts that exist within the special counsel's office and any changes in the scope of the investigation, " Sekulow said. "The scope is going to have to stay since Jimmy Carter have released their tax returns. Further adding to the challenges facing Trump's outside within his mandate. If there's drifting, we're going to object." Sekulow cited Bloomberg News reports that so because he was under audit or after promising to release them after an IRS audit was completed. All presidents investigation" and any crimes committed in response to the investigation, such as perjury or obstruction of Sponsored Links Trump has repeatedly refused to make his tax returns public after first claiming he could not do justice. Mueller's probe has already expanded to include an examination of whether Trump obstructed justice in his dealings with Comey, as well as the business activities of Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law. Trump's team constitutional oath to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States" seemed disdainful of the rule of law and almost certain to abuse his power. "He is unlikely to be contained by norms and customs, or even by laws and the Constitution, " wrote Peter Wehner, a circumspect Republican commentator, in The New York minorities; tolerated, and even incited, thuggery at his rallies. The man who on January 20, 2017, took a Times the day after Trump's inauguration. Wehner captured, in an understated way, prevalent fears about Trump's expressed illiberal attitudes toward freedom of speech, religion, and the press; attacked immigrants and presidency. Thus far, however, Trump has been almost entirely blocked from violating laws or the Constitution. utility of exploiting that difference, " Henry Farrell and Martha Finnemore have noted in Foreign Affairs. He is can't "recognize the difference between what one professes in public and what one does in private, much less the divisive government action through mollifying rhetoric and a call to shared values. Trump is bad at it because he bad thing. Hypocrisy is an underappreciated political virtue. It can palliate self-interested and politically or even spin his norm-breaking. Put another way, he is far less hypocritical than past presidents—and that is a incapable of keeping his crass thoughts to himself, or of cloaking his speech in other-regarding principle. and a notable lack of self-control. A corollary to Trump's shamelessness is that he often doesn't seek to hide Trump's behavior seems to flow from hypersensitivity untempered by shame, a mercurial and contrarian personality, a way to stymie his work, according to several of Trump's legal advisers. A conflict of interest is one of the are actively compiling a list of Mueller's alleged potential conflicts of interest, which they say could serve as might continue to do so under more-extreme circumstances. But it also might not. himself and everyone else involved? These are not crazy possibilities. The Constitution has held thus far and possible grounds that can be cited by an attorney general to remove a special counsel from office under Justice Russians—and Trump fires not just Mueller but also scores of others in the Justice Department, and pardons domestic terrorist attack or even nuclear war? What if Mueller finds evidence that Trump colluded with the faced no full-blown national-security crisis. But what if the economy collapses, or the country faces a major fundamentally stable. In Trump's first seven months in office, the stock market boomed and the United States Department regulations that set rules for the job. Donald Trump's international Presidential trips 22 show all office will be forever changed, and not for the better. The second assumption is that the country is second term, his norm-breaking will be seen to serve the presidency more than it does today. If that happens, the Kim Jong Un in a box—and win the 2020 election, perhaps in a three-way race. If Trump succeeds and makes it to a The president is also irritated by the notion that Mueller's probe could reach into his and his family's conceivable that he will turn things around—for example, by pulling off tax and infrastructure reform and putting U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak at White House