Perhaps this was more of a publicity stunt than an actual agenda priority.

A lot of what Trump does is publicity stunts. He's following the advice from Bannon way back before his first term: Flood the zone with shit.

When you flood the zone with useless garbage, it takes time for your opposition to sort out the important from the unimportant. And you can bait them into getting worked up over stupid but completely unimportant things. If they get worked up over everything, you wear out your opposition so that when you actually try to do something important, they may miss it or just think of it as another bit of unimportant stupidity. And having been worked up over so many things already, ordinary folk will tire of getting concerned.

Keep your eye on the important things - the degradation of our republic - and let stupid shit like this go. The next 4 years are a marathon and not a sprint. Save your energy for the latter part of the race when it will be most needed.

--Peter

PS - Things I think are important

Defying judicial orders by various parts of the executive branch
Congress kowtowing to Trump and failing in their oversight duties

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