* Monday confusion still reigned over Mr. Trump's petulant tweet about the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to permit a politically-motivated question on citizenship to be added to the census.
The Supreme Court, which expedited its schedule to hear and decide the issue in time for the Administration's stated deadline for starting to print the Census questions -- June 30 -- is now hearing Mr. Trump say he can extend the deadline because he doesn't like the decision. That's beyond impolite, to the Court.  It also completely undermines whatever credibility the U.S. Solicitor General has with the Court.
Thr Court told Administration attorneys that if Facebook's lawyers told him one thing, and then Mark Zuckerberg tweeted the opposite, then next time he'd tell them Zuckerberg had better come to court with them, because obviously they couldn't speak for their client.  Meanwhile the Administration is essentially telling the Court "we're going to come back with a significant new reason we should be able to ask about citizenship" but that it doesn't yet have a clue what that significant new reason will be.  Right.  The Justice Department also announce that the lawyers on the case would be replaced, suggesting that the initial set of lawyers refused on ethical grounds to do whatever it is Trump has ordered them to do.  It's an incredible mess -- for which a CEO in some private corporation would be called on the carpet by his or her board of directors.
Days later Trump reiterated his intent to try to use an executive order to get the political census question in -- but by Friday he'd given up, but buried the story.

[* To his credit, Trump did surprise me by avoiding an obvious pitfall, after his silly fight with members of the World Cup Champion U.S. women's soccer team.  I'm certain he hoped they'd lose, so he could call them out; but they won handily.  I guessed he'd stay silent (since a couple of prominent players have announced they'd not go to the Casa Blanca if invited) or perhaps congratulate them but include some unsubtle insult. Instead he just congratulated them, without adding anything ungraceful.  So I congratulate him for acting sort of like a normal person for a moment.]

* Also on Monday, a tweet from Mr. Trump spread a fake Reagan quote.  Reagan, who was photographed shaking hands with young Trump on November 3, 1987, never said, "For the life of me, and I'll never know how to explain this, but when I met that young man I felt like I was the one shaking hands with the president." 

* Too, Trump couldn't resist battling with the British Ambassador.  Someone the ambassador's reports to his government were made public.  Reporting honestly, and not for public or political purposes, he was very clear about the chaos of Trump's government, Trump's flakiness, and even the possibility that Trump might not finish his term.  He called Trump inept.   If I were in Trump's chair, I'd see how negative that was, and that it was particularly damaging because it wasn't meant to insult me or even be made public, and I'd shut up about that.  Why buy it another few days' play in the papers?  Guess that's why I'm not where Trump is.  He calls the guy an idiot, so that anyone who maybe was waterskiing when the original story came out will say "Who?  What?" and see the British Ambassador's candid opinion of Trump.  Then the guy resigned -- while other foreign embassy staff in D.C. were saying -- anonymously -- that the Brit said no more than they each had about Trump.

* His freakiest moment was when Trump spent an hour trying to portray himself as a great world leader in . . . uhh . . . environmental protection?  We all know he isn't.  He knows he isn't.  He's spent upwards of two years freeing corporations from the restraints of environmental regulations, getting us out of the Paris Agreement, etc.  But some of his consultants, looking at polls, developed the idea that although Trump is anathema to folks who understand the climate-change threat, there might be other folks who like some things about Trump but want to be reassured he's not a complete horror on environmental matters.  So he spent an hour in the East Room this week describing "America's environmental leadership" under his direction.  He claimed he'd disproved allegations that his pro-business approach would harm our environment.  He portrayed himself as the champion of clean water and oceans -- while he's doing things to weaken protections of both. . . .

As one scientist said, this was "a true 1984 moment.