In his 1952 book All Gall is Divided the dour Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran wrote, “Not content with real sufferings, the anxious man imposes imaginary ones on himself; he is a being for whom unreality exists, must exist; otherwise where would he obtain the ration of torment his nature demands?” Donald Trump has been president for 57 days and this is his presidency in a nutshell: It is intent on imposing its own unreality—which is born out of the anxious, self-defeating ravings of Donald Trump—on the world. And it’s working!

Friday started on an Orwellian note, as most days do nowadays. After claiming for years that the Obama administration was faking jobs numbers, Trump leapt at the February jobs report, which showed that the economy added 235,000 new workers that month, putting it roughly on par with the last few Februarys. But for Trump, these pretty good numbers, roughly consistent with several years of job growth, were a HUGE WIN and proof that he was MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN by JUMPSTARTING OUR FAILING ECONOMY. Things got even more absurd when Press Secretary Sean Spicer told the White House press corps that Trump told him to say that the jobs reports “may have been phony in the past” but are “very real now.”

JUST IN: Asked by @EamonJavers about Trump's view of jobs report, Spicer says "they may have been phony in the past, but it's very real now" pic.twitter.com/K93Pga8H0c — CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) March 10, 2017

The White House press corps took a lot of shit for laughing at this but, like, what are you supposed to do when somebody says something this insane and dishonest? Anyway, for these numbers to be right and the others to have been wrong, the economy would have had to add something like 60 million jobs in February.

Friday ended with a bombshell, as most Fridays now do. Forty-six U.S. attorneys, all of whom were appointed by former President Barack Obama, were asked to submit their resignations. One of those attorneys was the strident anti-corruption advocate Preet Bharara, who had been asked two days previously to investigate whether or not Trump had violated the Emoluments clause of the Constitution. Getting rid of U.S. attorneys appointed by predecessors is not abnormal, but the process by which these attorneys were removed was deeply abnormal: The attorneys were given almost no notice and Bharara, for instance, had been previously told that he was going to be kept on.

Over the weekend, Bharara took to his shiny new Twitter account to let the people know what really happened—and to take a shot at New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who didn’t have anything to do with his firing but totally deserves it.