At long last, the moment Washington has awaited since, it seems, the dawn of time has finally arrived. Donald Trump is executing his long-awaited pivot toward being a semi-respectable, conventional politician!

And because Trump does nothing small (see: his hands), this pivot is yuuuuuge. It's so big, in fact, that it encompasses each and every one of the 180 degrees necessary for a total reversal of course on many major issues.

So President Second-Place, who campaigned against Chinese currency manipulation and as recently as this month called that country the practice's "world champions," has tweaked that view, just a hair, and now believes: "They're not currency manipulators." NATO is "no longer obsolete"; he has "grown fond of" the Export-Import bank, as the Associated Press put it, even though he used to campaign against it; he no longer seems to think that Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen should be "ashamed" of herself, because now he may reappoint her next year; he says he doesn't know Russian President Vladimir Putin, despite saying in November 2015 that he knew Putin "very well"; and of course all of these reversals follow his decision to bomb Syria, after years of opposing intervening in Syria.

Oh and, hey, that's not all: NBC's First Read catalogs nine other Trump changes of mind.

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Did I say pivot? The watch-words right now are "reversal," "flip" and "flop," those last two used in conjunction. The headline on Politico's piece says Trump is "shifting positions at a break-neck pace" and goes on to assert that while Trump's policy pirouettes "would leave a more traditional politician labeled a flip-flopper … for Trump, who sold himself in part on a businessman's flexibility, the moves fit his reputation for unpredictability."

Actually, no – he's being called a flip-flopper.

For example, the Post's fact-checking column characterized Trump as the "king of flip-flops." Here's The Maddow Blog's Steve Benen: "The sheer volume of flip-flops is amazing, but so is the time frame: it would take a normal president years to reverse course on this many issues." And The Atlantic's David Graham has a piece entitled, "All the President's Flip-Flops."

The other euphemisms he's catching are no more friendly. "President Donald Trump hasn't been in the White House for 100 days, yet he's already reversed himself on many of his key campaign promises," the Associated Press reported Thursday morning; The New York Times talked about "three startling economic policy reversals"; and here's The Washington Post: "President Trump is abandoning a number of his key campaign promises on economic policy, adopting instead many of the centrist positions he railed against while campaigning as a populist."

And as my colleague Dave Catanese put it: " Donald Trump loves to talk about how he's winning. One category he's unquestionably dominating is the number of blatant reversals committed by a new president."

National Review's Rich Lowry wonders: "has there ever been a president who is so blatantly and thoroughly up for grabs?" Coming from the opposite end of the political spectrum, MSNBC's Chris Hayes reaches largely the same conclusion:

If you got the right person in the West Wing you could have Trump supporting single payer *and* a carbon tax — Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) April 12, 2017

Of course, the only thing that's surprising about Trump's epic flippery and floppery is that it seems surprising at all. During the campaign, NBC News charted "141 distinct stances [he had] on 23 major issues." So no, he's not the soul of constancy.

This is what happens when you have a president who has neither a particular interest in policy nor a particular political philosophy (beyond Trump first). And the thing about flip-floppers is that they, well, flip-flop; so we should not expect Trump to exhibit any more fidelity to his new policy positions than he did to his old ones.

All of these moves are being viewed through the lens of Steve Bannon's plummeting star. "The shifts confounded many of Mr. Trump's supporters and suggested that the moderate financiers he brought from Wall Street are eclipsing the White House populist wing led by Stephen K. Bannon, the political strategist who is increasingly being sidelined by the president," The Times' Alan Rappeport wrote Wednesday.

But let's not go overboard here: Trump may for the moment be shifting toward conventionally Republican, pro-Wall Street stances on some issues, but he remains notably cruel and/or unhinged on others. The Washington Post reports that the administration is "quickly identifying ways to assemble the nationwide deportation force that President Trump promised on the campaign." And weeks after declaring that he had moved on from Obamacare, Trump is, as The Huffington Post's Jonathan Cohn puts it, "threatening to torpedo insurance for millions of Americans" by killing subsidies that help insurers keep premiums down.

Doing so (more precisely dropping an appeal of a law suit which would end the subsidies) would be a death blow to the Affordable Care Act. Trump thinks this will force Democrats to the bargaining table. Now, I've not written a book about the art of the deal, but I'm not sure I see why the threat of terminating Obamacare would compel Democrats to help Trump terminate Obamacare.

It seems that these moves are also being spurred by Trump: The Kids. The Washington Post's account of the decline and fall of Commissar Bannon notes of the three oldest, Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric:

The Trump heirs are interested in any changes that might help resuscitate the presidency and preserve the family's name at a time when they are trying to expand the Trump Organization's portfolio of hotels.

"The fundamental assessment is that if they want to win the White House in 2020, they're not going to do it the way they did in 2016, because the family brand would not sustain the collateral damage," said one well-connected Republican operative.