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A Week 'Lost In The West Wing Reality Show'

"The chaos at the White House seems to be getting worse," a veteran Republican strategist said. Here's a look at one of the more unpredictable weeks in the Trump presidency thus far.
President Trump participates in a meeting with leaders of the steel industry at the White House on Thursday.

In the pantheon of tumultuous weeks for the still-young Trump presidency, there may not have been a more chaotic one than this, outside of his reaction and the fallout to the racist violence in Charlottesville, Va.

"The chaos at the White House seems to be getting worse," said Alex Conant, a former spokesman at the Republican National Committee and senior adviser to Marco Rubio's 2016 presidential campaign. "The constant staff turnover and the inability to turn the page on negative stories makes it impossible to push a positive agenda. There is really good work being done by this administration at the agency level, but it

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