After Another Week of Chaos, Trump Repairs to Palm Beach. No One Knows What Comes Next.

The following article by Mark Landler and Julie Hirschfeld Davis was posted on the New York Times website March 23, 2018:

President Trump spoke to reporters at the White House on Thursday. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times

PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump decamped to his oceanfront estate here on Friday after a head-spinning series of presidential decisions on national securitytrade and the budget that left the capital reeling and his advisers nervous about what comes next.

The decisions attested to a president riled up by cable news and unbound. Mr. Trump appeared heedless of his staff, unconcerned about Washington decorum, or the latest stock market dive, and confident of his instincts. He seemed determined to set the agenda himself, even if that agenda looked like a White House in disarray.

Inside the West Wing, aides described an atmosphere of bewildered resignation as they grappled with the all-too-familiar task of predicting and reacting in real time to Mr. Trump’s shifting moods. Continue reading “After Another Week of Chaos, Trump Repairs to Palm Beach. No One Knows What Comes Next.”