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- Hires a new communications director called Anthony Scaramucci
- Press secretary Sean Spicer quits in protest. Says he's happy but is fulminating
- The Mooch (aka Scaramucci) gives obscene interview to New Yorker magazine
- Trump fires his chief of staff, the hapless Reince Priebus (abandoned at Andrews air force base)
- Hires a new one, Gen Kelly, who was the head of homeland security
- On Kelly's first day, the president fires the new communications director - Scaramucci has lasted just 10 days - less time than it takes for a pint of milk to go off
- He hires a new comms director, his fourth in seven months
- He publicly shames his attorney-general, numerous times, but Jeff Sessions clings on
- Loses a healthcare bill
- Publicly lashes the three Republicans who voted against it, several times
- Bans transgender people from the military, via Twitter, without telling the military
- Military chiefs say: "Forget it, we don't take orders from tweets; there's a chain of command"
- Makes political speech to Scouts aged between 11-18
- Claims Scouts leader rang to congratulate him on greatest speech ever made
- Scouts leader says there was no such call, and issues statement apologising to Scouts for president's misjudged address
- Says the president of Mexico rang to congratulate him on his border policies
- Mexican president says no such call ever took place
- White House denies the president is a liar, but can't explain the president's claims
- Takes days to sign bipartisan sanctions bill and then criticises Congress for making him sign it
- Thanks Vladimir Putin for expelling hundreds of American diplomats
- Condemns leaks but then says he likes the leaks because it shows people love him
- Encourages police officers to be rough with suspects during arrests
- Police chiefs condemn statement. White House clarifies that it was a joke
- Publicly shames the Republican Senate leader, whom he needs to get anything done, several times
- Seems to respond to North Korea by threatening nuclear war
- Tells Guam, which has a big US military base which North Korea's leader threatened to attack, that the publicity will help tourism
- Chief strategist Steve Bannon contradicts president. Says: "There's no military option in NK"
- Threatens Venezuela with a military option
- After a neo-Nazi rally in which a woman was killed, the president blames both sides
- After backlash, cleans it up. Denounces white supremacists, neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan
- Cross at having been forced to do this, erases all of it and reverts to blaming both sides, saying there were "fine people there"
- Military high command issue statement condemning all forms of discrimination in thinly veiled attack on commander-in-chief
- Promotes his Virginia vineyard when asked if he will - as president - visit Charlottesville
- And gets condemnations from Democrats, Republicans, former presidents, world leaders, allies, his own staff, and the Pope.
- Publicly shames company bosses who abandon him. There's a mass walkout by execs leading to disbanding of key White House business bodies
- Fires Steve Bannon, his chief strategist and architect of Trump victory
- Does U-turn on Afghanistan and commits more troops, having repeatedly said he'd pull US forces out
- Threatens to close government down if he doesn't get funding for border wall with Mexico
- Appeals for unity of American people
- Next day lambasts his enemies and critics in highly partisan speech
- Day after that appeals for unity again
- Pardons ex-Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, who had been convicted for defying court order to stop traffic patrols targeting suspected immigrants
