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Molly Ball, senior political correspondent. How are you?
Pretty good, Ryan. How are you doing?
Great. So Donald Trump has been president for 11 days. Is it just me or does it feel like he's trying to do everything everywhere all at once?
Just like the movie, which means we're also going to get a proliferation of like clones with weird appendages. Is that how this is going to go?
Yeah, with hot dog fingers. Is that coming soon?
That's right. The hot dogs. Uh-huh. That must be the next executive order we should all look out for.
How would you say overall that things are going for him so far with the strategy?
I would say mixed. I mean, Republicans and people in the administration are pretty thrilled with how it's going. They feel like he's racking up wins. Democrats are also sort of getting their moxie back because they see him as doing too much too fast. And they feel like this is going to cause a backlash that's going to bring them back to relevance.
All right. Well, there's a lot to cover here on the show today. So let's get right to it.
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