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Washington (CNN)Forget the first 100 days. It's only been a week and Donald Trump is reinventing the presidency.
Amid a torrent of action, disruption and protest, the new President's moves on trade, immigration and foreign policy have honored his campaign promises -- and dramatically reshaped Washington's role in national and global affairs.
Some things are clear at the end of this jarring week. Trump won't have an epiphany and suddenly embrace Beltway conventions. As president, he will keep conjuring his own reality and is happy to use the backdrop of the White House to advance his many rhetorical wars.
His staff is learning how to work together as they jockey for power. And amid it all, Trump still manages to surprise: Lawmakers and business leaders say the larger than life president and former reality show star listens more than he talks.
But his unorthodox style is also raising questions about whether a presidency built on creative destruction will simply exhaust the political system. Trump's conveyer belt of executive orders is an effective symbolic device, but they are noticeably lacking in details and actionable plans. Sooner or later, he will have to show proficiency in the harder task of shepherding his agenda through Congress.
Trump's first week in office leaves one fundamental question in its wake: Can he successfully govern a complicated and divided country without bringing his erratic behavior under control? For now, there is no answer.
Man of action
Trump is making no secret of his top priority: Pay back the disgruntled voters who sent him to Washington to blow things up.
"Think of everything we can achieve and remember who we must achieve it for," Trump told Republican lawmakers Thursday in Philadelphia. "Now we have to deliver. Enough all talk, no action. We have to deliver."
In the delivery column, mark down an executive order calling for the building of a wall on the southern US border -- honoring Trump's earliest campaign vow. He's also made it easier to deport undocumented immigrants. Trump pulled America out of the Trans Pacific Partnership trade pact, rupturing decades of US foreign policy orthodoxy that power was projected through multilateral deals.
After only a couple of briefings, leaks suggested that Spicer's position was less than secure. Reports in The Washington Post and The New York Times appeared to lift the lid on antagonism between rival power centers in the West Wing. Trump made clear that he was not impressed by Spicer's performance on Saturday -- a review that other aides were quick to leak to the media.
In photo-ops, staff including senior advisors Stephen Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, Jared Kushner and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus almost seemed to be jostling to get in the camera frame to emphasize their clout.
When Trump was at the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday, Priebus and Bannon were on opposite sides of the room and had no interaction.
Senior White House advisers have grown more insular -- and more convinced than ever that they're delivering for the Americans who elected Trump. They're convinced they are outrageously misunderstood -- and even being actively undermined -- by the national media and Washington pundits.
Still, some sources said that political trench warfare was beginning to draw Trump's team together against a common enemy -- the press corps. Contempt for the media burst into the open late Thursday in an interview by Bannon with The Times.
"The media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States."
Spicer told reporters Bannon "speaks for himself" and is known to be "very passionate about his views."
He added: "Steve's views on how the media covers conservatives is very well known and as you said, it's not shocking."
Speaking on PBS, Conway said "we should all learn to listen more to America and I think that's probably Steve Bannon's central point."
One person likely unruffled by the West Wing unrest is Trump. He thrives amid chaos.
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