![]() ![]() Monkey Cage, meanwhile, asked Trump voters to compare Trump’s crowd size to those from previous inaugurations. Duck of Minerva says that “Trump’s thin-skinned whining” about the media’s fact-checking of his claim that the crowd was the biggest ever is more than a case of “crowd-size envy” it shows that his administration is happy to lie when matters of his popularity are in question. The weekend saw a major stoush between the news media and the Trump administration over the size of the crowd which attended Trump’s inauguration. Overall, the numbers aren’t high Reagan reversed 22 in the first 60 days of his presidency, but most tend to average reversing 6 to 8 for every year of their presidency. Monkey Cage writes on Monday how presidents in the past have been able to do the same. One of Trump’s big pledges as a candidate was to reverse President Obama’s executive orders. On Saturday, Outside the Beltway reviews Donald Trump’s inauguration speech from the previous day, referring to it as “the most dreadful inaugural address in history”, and characterizes it as more of a stump speech than an inaugural address. The Government, Beltway and the Supreme Court ![]() Don’t see a blog referenced here that you think we should be reading? Let us know what we’ve missed out and we’ll try to include it next week. USAPP Managing Editor, Chris Gilson looks at the best of the week’s political blogging from academics and think-tanks. ![]()
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