Subject: Axios AM: Mike’s Top 10 — Global conflagration over refugee ban, The Trump bulldozer, Pence’s best jokes from last night
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Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 09:24:12 -0500 (EST)

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Global blowback * Does Trump need more sleep? Best jokes by Mike Pence, =ichael Bloomberg

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By Mike Allen = ·Jan 29, 2017

​1 big thing: Extreme chaos

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport / AP

The instant, searing global backlash over Presiden='s Trump's executive order on refugees threatened to swamp an otherwise pr=ductive week and to supply defining opening visuals of the young presidenc=. White House officials say they expected resistance, but some administrat=on officials were rattled last night by the scale, swiftness and decibel l=vel of the blowback.

A federal judge in New York is=ued a temporary, nationwide stay just before 9 p.m., as thousands of sign-=aving protesters jammed Washington Dulles, New York's JFK and other airpor=s.

@KimKingsley was retweeted=14,000 times when she posted video of cheering at International Arrivals a= Dulles as travelers were freed. At San Francisco International Airport, t=e demonstration swelled to 700, with raucous cheering and applause when a =etained travler was released.

Democrats, after spen=ing nearly two months back on their heels, suddenly have an opening. Sen. =ory Booker of New Jersey showed up at Dulles airport, then tweeted last ni=ht: "I am driving North now from Virginia. I will check in on things at Ne=ark airport tomorrow." Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe held a press conferen=e on a concourse at Du=les, calling the order "antithetical to the values that make America g=eat. It will not make our country safer."

@HillaryClinton tw=eted: "I stand with the people gathered across the country tonigh= defending our values & our Constitution. This is not who we are."
=p>Outrage abroad was rampant. British Prime Minister Ther=sa May, just back from her White House visit, said through Downing Street:="[W]e do not agree with this kind of approach." And German Chancellor Ange=a Merkel, a key U.S. ally, slammed the restrictions, saying through a spok=sman that "even in the necessarily resolute battle against terrorism it is=not justified to place people from a certain origin or belief under genera= suspicion."

Good morning, Mr. President ... Today'= first two tweets: "Somebody with aptitude and conviction should buy the F=KE NEWS and failing @nytimes and either run it correctly or let it fold wi=h dignity! ... Our country needs strong borders and extreme vetting, NOW. =ook what is happening all over Europe and, indeed, the world - a horrible =ess!"

Here are a few quick bullets to make you smar= fast — the Axios secret sauce:

How Trump=got blocked: The federal judge who blocked Trump's order, U.S. Di=trict Judge Ann M. Donnelly, of Brooklyn, heard an emergency appeal from t=e ACLU and ordered that refugees and others detained at airports across th= United States not be sent back to their home countries, saying enforcing =he order could cause them "irreparable harm." The petition ... The ruling

What Trump says: Answering a question afte= he signed other executive orders in the Oval Office just before 5 p.m. ("=hat's big stuff!"), the president told reporters:="[I]t's not a Muslim ban, but we were totally prepared. It's working out v=ry nicely. You see it at the airports, you see it all over. It's working o=t very nicely. And we're going to have a very, very strict ban. And we're =oing to have extreme vetting, which we should have had in this country for=many years. Thank you, everybody."

Fodder f=r propaganda: Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted: "#MuslimBan will be recorded in history as a great gift t= extremists and their supporters … Iran will take reciprocal measu=es to protect citizens." … Muslim world in shock.

No safer? AP posted a story=for Sunday papers questioning whether the ban would make the U.S safer= "Recent acts of deadly extremist violence have been carried out either by=U.S. citizens or by individuals whose families weren't from the nations si=gled out. And the list of countries in Trump's order doesn't include Saudi=Arabia, where most of the Sept. 11 hijackers were from."

<=trong>Tech vs. Trump: "G=ogle [ordered more than 100 potentially affected] overseas staff back home=immediately … Apple CEO Tim Cook told employees that the tech firm=reached out to the White House to express how the order will negatively af=ect Apple's workforce."

A b=d headline day … The Sunday N.Y. Times banner in late edition: "JUD=E BLOCKS TRUMP ORDER ON REFUGEES." Earlier, the two-column lead of the paper was:="IMMIGRATION BAN BLOCKS TRAVELERS AROUND THE GLOBE."

=strong>N.Y. Post cover … "UNCLE SCRAM," with=a "Sorry We're CLOSED" sign over a map of the U.S.

​2. Best quote

"Lawyers for the two Iraqis held in New York have been unable to speak t= their clients. When the lawyers asked to speak with them, Customs and Bor=er Protection agents at JFK said that they were not the ones to field such=a request. 'Who is the person to talk to?' the attorneys asked, according =o the complaint. The CBP agents responded: 'Mr. President. Call Mr. Trump<=a>.'"

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​3. "The Trump bulldozer"

Alex Brandon / AP

If you click only one thing … Jim VandeHei and I have a new piec= up this morning that explains the method behind the Trump frenzy: "[F]rom=the point of view of the president's brain trust, he's getting his way, an=, with each passing day, more Republicans and outside leaders seem to be f=lling in line, even as critics rage. This is more a bulldozer than a runaw=y train." Click here<=a> to see who's buckling, and why.

So much for the noti=n that the press takes Trump too literally … Axios' Dan Primack points o=t: "After just over a week in office, it is obvious that President Trump t=kes Candidate Trump's promises =iterally. He literally plans to build a wall. He literally put a temporary=ban on refugees from entering the country."

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​4. Bannon rising

In a move that stunned longtime national-security hands, Trump yesterday=added Steve=Bannon, his chief strategist, to the National Security Council's Princ=pals' Committee, on par with the SecState and SecDef. Neither Karl Rove no= David Plouffe nor David Axelrod were on the Principals' Committee. Bannon=is defined as a regular attendee, an elevation over the Director of Nation=l Intelligence and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who "shall atten= where issues pertaining to their responsibilities and expertise are to be=discussed."

Signing the NSC=organizational order in the Oval Office, Trump told reporters the structur= "represents … a lot of efficiency and I think a lot of additional=safety. People have been talking about doing this for a long time �=94 like many years."

​5. Leak blamed on infiltrator

News organizations received digital recordings of three sessions last we=k's GOP congressional retreat in Philadelphia, and Axios' Jonathan Swan ob=ained the private explanation that was emailed to House members and senato=s. Mark Strand, president of the Congressional Institute, blamed an interl=per with counterfeit credentials who "misrepresented herself on multiple o=casions to retreat organizers as the spouse of an elected official." <= href="http://link.axios.com/click/8730179.29769/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYXhpb3M=Y29tL2JlaGluZC10aGUtcmVwdWJsaWNhbi1sZWFrcy0yMjIyNTYyNjE5Lmh0bWw_dXRtX3NvdX=jZT1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJfY=hpb3NhbQ/5871993924c17c54d77a8b8cB4da84f10" target="_blank">We posted the whole memo.

6. Best jokes from Alfalfa

Since President Trump skipped last night's black-tie, o=f-camera Alfalfa Club Dinner, Vice President Pence did the honors before t=e biggest annual gathering of tycoons, national leaders and elder statesme=:

Pence joked, per our spies, that Team Trump =s all getting to know each other: "It wasn't too long ago, I thought a Rei=ce Priebus was a midsize hybrid." This elicited a smile from the White Hou=e chief of staff, who was at the head table.

The V.P. said=Trump is "going to build a big, beautiful, impenetrable wall. It'= gonna be nine feet tall, and it's gonna run right between the West Wing a=d the press corps. And The New York Times is going to pay for it."
Pence's best line: "Of the eight richest people in the wo=ld, five are in this room. I feel like I'm at a Cabinet meeting."
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the incoming club president, =eceived applause when he said it was classy of Hillary to attend the inaug=ration. Bloomberg claimed that Trump couldn't attend the dinner because he=was stuck on a phone call with Putin: "I feel for him. We've all had bosse= who call us on the weekend."

Erskine Bowles �=80� former Bill Clinton White House chief of staff, and the club's outgo=ng president: "What a year: Angela Merkel has required people in her count=y to stop wearing full face veils. And here at home, Hillary has begun wea=ing one."

"This administration is very militar= heavy. You have 'Mad Dog' Mattis, a Marine general. John Kelly, a Marine =eneral. Mike Flynn, an Army general. And Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, a =onfederate general."

​7. "Truthful hyperbole" …

… and "innocent exaggeration" could be the new "alternative fact=." Trump's history of whoppers is reprised by investigative reporter David=Barstow in the lower right corner of the N.Y. Times front page, "Up Is Dow=': Unreality Show Echoes a History of False Claims": "All week long, news =rganizations chased down one Trump tall tale after another" — incl=ding the Philly murder rate (falling, not rising as Trump said) and a supp=sed shooting in Chicago during Obama's farewell address (never happened).<=r>

A hallmark of his business career: "Trump's=most noteworthy deceptions often did double duty, serving not just his ego=but also important strategic goals. Mr. Trump's habitually inflated claims=about his wealth … fed his self-proclaimed image of a business gen=us even as they attracted lucrative licensing deals."

Key =hrase: "Nearly 30 years ago, in his best-selling book 'The Art of=the Deal,' Mr. Trump memorably extolled the advantages of 'truthful hyperb=le,' which he described as 'an innocent form of exaggeration — and=a very effective form of promotion.'"

8. Rx for Trump: more sleep

Arianna Huffington's new wellness website, Thrive Global, posts her "Modest Proposal: Mr. President, Get Some Sleep": Wh=t "Trump is recreating is the [Bill] Clinton working process … wit= all of its feverish, frantic, late-night, sleep-deprived chaos. …=His first week was dominated by his clumsy handling of the gays-in-the-mil=tary issue … And according to [David] Gergen, this way of working =planted seeds that almost destroyed Clinton's presidency.' Bill Clinton hi=self later acknowledged [to CNN in 2008] 'every important mistake I've mad= in my life, I've made because I was too tired.'"

A=ianna: "Trump has long regarded sleep as just another adversary t= be dominated into submission. "You know, I'm not a big sleeper," he said =uring a campaign rally in Illinois. "I like three hours, four hours. I tos=, I turn, I beep-de-beep, I want to find out what's going on.' And many of=his campaign's most divisive moments [tweets] came in the middle of the ni=ht or early morning."

"Perpetual-motion president" — Dan Balz column in WashPost: "Trump is moving at an unprece=ented pace to change the direction of the country and reset America's plac= in the world. … He is the perpetual-motion president. … [=is first week] was all that Trump's supporters might have hoped for and al= his opponents feared."

​9. What we're watching

Bill Clinton (age 33) and Brokaw (age 40) in 1980 / AP

A two-hour NBC News "Dateline" special at 9 p.m. ET celebrates Tom Broka='s "First 50 Years" at the network: "Brokaw and his guests will sha=e insights … from the last half century [on] race relations, polit=cs, the women's movement, technology, and global affairs." Lester Holt had a video preview.

​10. 1 fun thing

"Snack-shaming" at the cineplex, brought to us by the N.Y. Post=/a>: "A ticket taker at Cinépolis in Chelsea — where a large =opcorn costs a wallet-shrinking $8.25 — went full-prison guard, se=rching customers' bags with a flashlight … Moviegoers who try to s=uggle in snacks are forced to shame-eat before they are allowed inside the=ters … A Cinépolis spokeswoman claimed employees were actuall= looking for weapons."

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