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Trump has been president for less than a month, and Democrats and their allies in the media are already howling that he is an abject failure. I’m no Trump toady, but so far, Trump has had one poorly drafted executive order and one or two personnel misfires and has fed the flames with some clumsy media performances, but this isn’t that unusual. Does anybody remember Zoe Baird?

And let’s not get too spun up about the allegations that Republicans in Congress are already throwing in the towel on everything from tax reform to repealing and replacing Obamacare. Again, this is just the start. Obamacare wasn’t signed into law until more than a year after Barack Obama took office. Not having repealed Obamacare yet does not constitute a failure.

Trump also just held a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It was civil and serious, made some news and even had a measure of graciousness about it when Trump introduced Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, and Netanyahu referenced his long-standing relationship with Jared Kushner. There were no eruptions, nobody got hurt and everything seemed downright presidential.

Of course, that means members of the media are already throwing a fit about the fact that the news conference mostly stuck to the topics at hand, and they didn’t have an opportunity to harp at Trump about what they want to talk about — namely Russia, Flynn, etc. So Trump didn’t take endless questions about the Flynn resignation. Well, maybe that’s because he’s not ready, because he knows it’s going to be unflattering and at this point would only inflame the story, and so he wants to talk about that issue at a time and place of his choosing. Maybe a little media strategy is beginning to emerge from the Trump White House. Maybe that’s another reason for the media to panic.