When Donald Trump Jr. uttered these words in front of an audience on Tuesday, “There is, and there are, people at the highest levels of government that don’t want to let America be America,” he was not talking about his father. No, the mysterious plotter deep in the dark state to whom Fredo, the uncharitable nickname given to Sonny Boy by insiders, was referring was not his dad, though as the months drag on, we have more and more examples of the president’s profound anti-Americanism.

Just as you were finishing up your holiday shopping on Saturday, the New York Times published an account of a meeting that took place at the White House last June at which Trump, enraged that his anti-immigration policies were being thwarted by the courts, allegedly ranted that Haitians “all have AIDS,” and that visitors from Nigeria, once they had seen this country, would never “go back to their huts.” (The White House denies this account.)

It was yet another up-and-down week for the commander in chief. His engorge-the-rich tax bill was rushed through and signed, though it was not in fact the biggest tax cut in history that he claimed. And given how loose-lipped he is, no one was surprised to hear him admit on Wednesday that this business of the tax cut chiefly benefiting the middle class was more or less a ruse, that lowering the corporate rate from 35 percent to 21 percent was “probably the biggest factor in our plan,” and that furthermore, the clause repealing the Obamacare individual mandate was really major, but he says he told supporters to “be quiet with the fake news media, because I don’t want them talking too much about it. . . . Now that it’s approved, I can say that.”

Fulminate and obfuscate as the president may, Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation continues apace—despite the clanking chorus hell-bent on smearing the special counsel and building a case for his ouster. (Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who would be the one to fire Mueller, continues to insist that he has no plans to do so—which might mean that Rod’s own days are numbered.) In a late-breaking development Saturday, the maligned Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe announced that he would be retiring early next year, to which the ever-gracious Trump, already seemingly bored after one day of vacation at Mar a Lago, tweeted, “How can FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, the man in charge, along with leakin’ James Comey, of the Phony Hillary Clinton investigation (including her 33,000 illegally deleted emails) be given $700,000 for wife’s campaign by Clinton Puppets during investigation?” and “FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is racing the clock to retire with full benefits. 90 days to go.”