Subject: Axios AM: Mike's Top 10: Trump behind the scenes: diet, sleep, exercise * Tom Brady on leadership * Gaming Twitter?
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Trump behind the scenes: diet, sleep, exercise * Tom Brady on leadership=* Gaming Twitter

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By Mike Allen = ·Feb 06, 2017

1 big thing: Trump behind the scenes

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Axios' Jonathan Swan has a delicious look at President =rump's personal habits (diet, sleep, exercise): "Aides ... during the camp=ign marveled at the lax health habits of a 70 year-old obsessed with appea=ance. Here was a man fixated on his personal brand and look ... And yet he=ate and worked out (or, rather, didn't) like a man who's slept through the=last 50 years of public-health warnings." Among the nuggets:

He guzzled Diet Coke all day long. Fast f=od was a constant. The "three staples," in the words of one aide: Domino's= KFC, and McDonald's. Big Macs were served on silver trays in his private =et.

Trump loves big steaks, preferably the ones s=rved at his clubs. ... Trump snacks on original-flavored Lay's potato chip= and vanilla-flavored Keebler Vienna Fingers.

Says a forme= aide: "He used to love Oreos but he really did stop eating them =nce they moved [their plants] to Mexico."

Read the whole thing, "Trump 101: he is definitely not a health nut."

2. Tom Brady on leadership

Brady running onto the field / AP

The New England Patriots' Tom Brady --=who cemented his status as the NFL's greatest by engineering an epic comeb=ck from a 28-3 hole to beat the Atlanta Falcons by 34 to 28, in the first-=ver Super Bowl overtime -- to Terry Bradshaw, during a taped interview for=Fox's pregame show:

"You get i= the huddle and you call those plays, you have 10 other guys that=are feelin' your energy. And what are you puttin' off? A=e you puttin' off confidence? Are you puttin' off fear? You know,=they can feel all that. And when they get in the huddle with =e, I want to look in their eyes, and I want them to feel a b=lief that we're gonna do it."

Brady at his postgame
A big lesson of Brady's triumph: The best reven=e is success.

Brady thinks game jersey stolen= "Brady looked flustered as he searched his locker area ... but was unable=to locate the game-worn jersey ... 'It was right here. I know exactly wher= I put it,' Brady said as he called the security staff and team equipment =anagers to assist in the search. ... 'This is not good ... It was right he=e and now I don't have it. Not good. ... It is going to be on eBay soon, I=guess.'"

3. Sentence of the day

Sentence of the Day, from = N.Y. Times front-pager by Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haber=an, "Trump and Staff Rethink Tactics After Stumbles": White House Chief of=Staff Reince Priebus has "created a 10-point checklist for the release of =ny new initiatives that includes signoff from the communications departmen= and the White House staff secretary, Robert Porter."

In other words: A normal White House staffing process.

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4. Gaming Twitter

Some Trump campaign supporters became adept at using Tw=tter bots to amplify their online voices, giving him a little-recognized a=vantage on social media. A WashPost front-pager, "Online pundits use 'bots' to turn tweet= into roars," by Craig Timberg in Chicago, unpacks the phenomenon:
Two Twitter accounts of Daniel John Sobieski, 68, "o=e of the nation's most prolific conservative voices ... tweet more than 1,=00 times a day using 'schedulers' that work through stacks of his own pre-=ritten posts in repetitive loops."

"Researchers h=ve documented the power of automation technology to magnify some points of=view while drowning out others."

"One research team found that 'highly automated accounts' sup=orting President Trump ... out-tweeted those supporting Democrat Hillary C=inton by a ratio of 5 to 1 in the final days before the vote."

"This Twitter advantage had spillover effects, h=lping pro-Trump and anti-Clinton stories to trend online, making them more=likely to find their way into Facebook feeds or Google's list of popular n=ws stories."

A turning point for fake news? J=m Rutenberg's N.Y. Times "Media=or" column says the organic response to Kellyanne Conway's "Bowling Gr=en Massacre" gaffe appears to be "the first break in the 'fake news' cloud=": "The same internet that enabled false stories to run unchecked through =ews feeds during the election year dispatched new white blood cells that a=tacked Ms. Conway's 'alternate facts.'"

"Their most effective attack was traditional reporting, i= many cases from news organizations that have doubled down on fact-checkin=, joined by newfangled memes that accentuate the truth. ... [S]ocial media=and journalistic scrutiny aligned with comedy to right a wrong pretty defi=itively."

5. Headed to high court

Administration officials expect the travel-restrictions=case to wind up at the Supreme Court, regardless of what the San Francisco=based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals does. That's risky: Trump's argument em=hasizes its theory of presidential power, so even conservative justices co=ld vote against him.

But conservative radio host Hugh H=witt, a lawyer and law professor, told me during our "Mondays wit= Mike" hit this morning that he thinks the White House has "a pretty easy =ase."

The appeals court has fast-tracked the =ase, so the administration expects a decision early this week.

The L.A. Times' longtime 9th-Circ=it watcher, Maura Dolan, says the action begins today: "A bri=f from the two states that challenged the ban [Minnesota and state of Wash=ngton] will be due at 1 a.m. Pacific time Monday and the administration's =esponse at 3 p.m. A panel ruling could come anytime after that — m=st likely within a week."

Tech companies go a step further .... 97 companies, from Apple to Zynga, last night filed a legal br=ef in the 9th Circuit against Trump's immigration order, per Bloomberg: "The amicus brief ..= emphasizes the importance of immigrants in the economy and society. The =ompanies originally planned to file the brief later this coming week, but =ccelerated efforts over the weekend after other legal challenges to the or=er."

"The participating technol=gy companies include Airbnb Inc., Facebook Inc., Google, Intel Co=p., Netflix Inc., Snap Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc. Companies beyond te=hnology signed on as well, including Levi Strauss & Co. and yogurt mak=r Chobani."

6. The press was wrong ...

... about a key part of Trump's changes to the makeup of the National Se=urity Council, according to respected WashPost columnist Jackson Diehl. Th=s was a separate wrinkle from the addition of Steve Bannon to the Cabinet-=evel Principals Committee. In "Why the med=a muffed the NSC story," Diehl writes:

"A line [in the NSC order released last weekend] said=that the director of national intelligence and Joint Chiefs chair ... woul= attend meetings of the Principals Committee only when 'issues pertaining =o their responsibilities and expertise are to be discussed.' In other word=, concluded the first news reports, downgraded! ... Obama's national secur=ty adviser Susan Rice ... called the purported demotion 'stone cold crazy.=

"But there was no demotion. As former State Department legal counsel John Bellinger pointed out=on the Lawfare website, the Principals Committee was tasked with reporting=to both the NSC and the Homeland Security Council. That meant it might tak= up some domestic issues, such as disaster relief, outside the purview of =he intelligence community and military. ... [T]he George W. Bush administr=tion had the same organization."

Why this got traction= Jackson notes that the criticism stemmed partly from "the blizza=d of executive orders issuing or leaking from the White House ... that off=cials have done little to explain to Cabinet agencies, much less the press= Then there is the already established proclivity of ... spokespersons to=retail brazen untruths, at the apparent urging of the boss."

7. Trump sets a marker ...

... predicting "tremendous job growth in this country."=In a pretaped interview with Bill O'Reilly at the top of Hour 4 of Fox's 6=C2�-hour pregame show (with more of the interview coming on Fox News' "T=e O'Reilly Factor" today and tomorrow), President Trump bragged about jobs= "Already I've turned it around – you see that. Ford has been phen=menal: They canceled the plan, they're building tremendous -- "

O'Reilly interjected: "Yeah, you =ntimidated them – they're afraid of you."

Trump continued: "No -- General Motors is ... I=don't know if they're afraid. No, no: They want to do what's right. ... "<=p>
O'Reilly: "Why didn't t=ey do what was right in the past? They're afraid of you."

Trump said: "Because the wrong people s=oke to them. But -- they're going to do what's right and they're bringing=jobs back to Michigan and Ohio ... and Pennsylvania and all the places tha= have lost the jobs. So that's already happening. I think you're going to =ee a tremendous job growth in this country."

Pressed by O'Re=lly at the end of the interview, Trump picked the Pats by 8: "I l=ke Bob Kraft, I like Coach Belichick, and Tom Brady's my friend. ... I kno= they're taking a lot of heat [for being friends]. ... I think the other t=am is fantastic though. No, I think it's a fantastic team, turned out to b= a good quarterback. ... But, you know, you have to stick up for your frie=ds, right?"

8. POTUS travel ahead

President Trump, after his heated call=with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, will get plenty of chance= to redeem himself as a diplomat in coming months. AP's Darlene Superville=points out that readouts from his calls with world leaders reveal a spate of upcomin= overseas travel, heavy on Europe:

Trump spoke yester=ay with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and agreed to att=nd a NATO leaders' meeting in late May in Brussels, where he'll have to li=e down his "obsolete" gibe.

Trump spoke with Ital=an Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni on Saturday and promised to attend a lat=-May summit of G-7 industrial nations in Taormina, Italy.

Trump accepted the invitation of German Chancellor An=ela Merkel to the G-20 economic summit in Hamburg, Germany, in early July.=/li>
Trump accepted an i=vitation from Queen Elizabeth II for a state visit, expected this summer. =/li>

And several leaders are expected to come to h=m this month:

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be at the White House on Friday.

Isra=li Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu follows on Feb. 15.
The White House telegraphed a February visit=by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, but has yet to announce a date.=/li>

9. Trending in business

"The $100 Billion Reason Investors Loved Trump's Bank O=der": A Wall Street Journal front-pager =eveals: "The six biggest U.S. banks could potentially return more than $10= billion in capital to investors over time through dividends and share buy=acks if the Trump administration succeeds in a push to loosen bank regulat=on."

10. 1 fun thing

Melissa McCarthy in Super Bowl ad for Kia

"Super Bowl ads go political in a big way" -- AP's Mae Anderson: =Airbnb touted inclusiveness with an ad showing faces of different ethnicit=es and the copy: 'We all belong. The world is more beautiful the more you =ccept.' Coca-Cola aired a previously run ad during the pregame show in whi=h people sing 'America the Beautiful' in different languages. And Budweise= ran a 60-second spot chronicling co-founder Adolphus Busch's migration fr=m Germany to St. Louis in 1857, prompting some critics to start a boycott =ampaign on Twitter."

See all the ads on one page at YouTube.

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