Andrew Egger: “It wasn’t long before you could feel that overwhelming momentum start to slow. In retrospect, the Supreme Court’s slapdown of his lawless deportations to El Salvador was one inflection point; his shambolic rollout and subsequent panicked walkback of his ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs was another.”

“But now, in the wake of the government shutdown, we seem to be hitting a third phase in Trump’s second term, in which his forward momentum is in danger of stopping altogether. And in that environment, the incompetence so endemic in term one is making itself known again, with a vengeance.”

“Suddenly, everywhere you look, you see a White House flailing.”

“Donald Trump is struggling to stay on message after accidentally boosting a call to impeach himself,” the Daily Beast reports.

“The president went on a social media posting spree attacking a group of Democrats who last week released a video urging U.S. service members and the intelligence community to refuse illegal orders.”

“But while doing so, he posted a screenshot of Sen. Mark Kelly, a retired naval officer and one of six Democratic lawmakers featured in the video, from an anti-Trump account named ‘Impeach Trump a 3rd Time.'”