Mr Inglis says he believes the US can make it through the chaotic battle of ideas that is characterising the Donald Trump Presidency. Credit:AP Trump acknowledged at the time that "parts of health care could pass at 51" votes - as the GOP's "skinny repeal" bill could have. But "so many great future bills & budgets need 60 votes", he wrote. As he continued his tweet storm into Saturday, he offered a few examples of great future bills - along with a few demands and insults for Republican senators he said couldn't pass them until they killed the filibuster. "Republican Senate must get rid of 60 vote NOW!" Trump wrote at 7:20am, a few minutes after he plugged a report suggesting the Russian government was working against him during the election.

He demanded that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., eliminate the filibuster "NOW" - despite the fact that McConnell dismissed the idea when Trump raised it months ago. By way of persuasion, Trump wrote that Republican senators "look like fools and are just wasting time," and will "NEVER win" until they kill the rule. It's worth noting that while Trump now attacks the filibuster as antiquated, four years earlier he defended it as a venerable tradition dating back to Thomas Jefferson.

Once used rarely and memorably (as when a senator spoke and sang for 15 hours to block a vote in 1992), the filibuster has become an almost routine tactic for minority parties to impede bills and nominees they can't defeat in a straight-up vote. On Saturday, Trump blamed the filibuster for hypothetically allowing Democrats to block "complete Healthcare," despite the fact that Republican senators have not been able to unite around even a narrowly tailored bill so far. Trump also wrote that "Kate's Law," which would increase punishments for criminals who illegally re-enter the United States after being deported, would never pass with the filibuster in place. So to attempt a recap of the president's latest rounds of tweets: Trump knows that some healthcare bills could pass through the Senate with a simple majority of votes. Friday's "skinny repeal" bill could have done it with only 50, for example. But Republicans need to kill the filibuster anyway, Trump argues, lest it allow Democrats to block a more sweeping health-care reform bill - which does not yet exist but will be supported by a majority of senators (but not 60 of them) once it is written.

If that logic strikes you as confusing, you're not alone: Senator Chris Murphy tweeted: "If McCain had just voted yes they would have had those 60 votes required under reconciliation! No, wait...." But there's no reason to assume Trump's day-long argument against the filibuster has concluded. Shortly before 8am, he added some new points. "If the Senate Democrats ever got the chance, they would switch to a 51 majority vote in first minute," Trump wrote. And also: "They are laughing at R's. MAKE CHANGE!"

To this point, Trump has failed to shepherd a single substantial piece of legislation into law. His only major accomplishments have been by executive power - rolling back regulations and undoing a few of his predecessor's achievements, like the Paris climate treaty - along with his successful nomination of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. How Trump's aides have been fired REINCE PRIEBUS: Trump announced on Friday he was replacing his chief of staff after months of speculation about Priebus's fate and a series of belittling and emasculating comments from Trump and other White House aides. JAMES COMEY: When firing the FBI director in May, Trump deployed one his most trusted and longest-serving aides to carry out the task: bodyguard-turned-security director- turned director of Oval Office operations Keith Schiller. Schiller was sent to the Justice Department to deliver a letter notifying Comey of his firing. But the director was in California and learned of his dismissal from TV. COREY LEWANDOWSKI: Campaign manager Corey Lewandowski had guided the campaign with the motto, "Let Trump be Trump". Trump had stuck with Lewandowski even after he was accused of roughing up a female reporter. He agreed to pull the plug in June 2016 only after an intervention from his adult children and son-in-law. Lewandowski was unceremoniously escorted out of Trump Tower in Manhattan by security after being notified of his dismissal.

CHRIS CHRISTIE: New Jersey's governor spent months leading the president-elect's transition team, pulling together policy papers and coming up with lists of potential cabinet members. But Trump decided he no longer required Christie's services in the days after his November 8 election. According to The New York Times, Trump gave chief strategist Steve Bannon the chore of telling Christie he was out. PAUL MANAFORT: Trump chose to fire his campaign chairman amid a steady stream of negative headlines about Manafort's foreign consulting work. He technically resigned from the position last August but Trump's son, Eric Trump, said in an interview his father was concerned that questions about Manafort's past were taking attention away from the billionaire's presidential bid. MICHAEL FLYNN: Trump's campaign adviser-turned-national security adviser resigned in February following reports that he had misled Pence and other officials about his contacts with Russia. But Flynn's resignation wasn't voluntary. Trump later said that he'd fired Flynn, and blamed leaks from intelligence agencies and biased reporting from the "fake media" for forcing his hand. SAM NUNBERG: The man behind many of Trump's earliest and most popular campaign ideas was pushed out of Trump's campaign in the summer of 2015 following a report that he'd posted racially charged material on his Facebook page. This time, Trump delivered the news to Nunberg directly over the phone. SEAN SPICER:The White House press secretary resigned this month after six months on the job. He quit after Trump tapped New York financier Anthony Scaramucci to serve as White House communications director. Spicer, who quit with little warning, was not fired and said in an interview with Fox News Channel that the president wanted him to stay on. But Spicer, a devout Roman Catholic, had been subjected to a string of public slights by his boss, including being excluded from Trump's meeting with the Pope during a trip to the Vatican.

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