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Donald Trump's Orders, Refugees, Chinese New Year: Your Weekend Briefing New York Times President Enrique Pea Nieto of Mexico canceled a meeting with Mr. Trump because of his plans to build a border wall and suggestions that a 20 percent tax on Mexican imports to the U.S. could help pay for it. The idea of a wall isn't new. In 2006, a ...

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Here are five takeaways from President Donald Trump's first full week in office:

President Trump thrives in crisis mode, and his method is chaos. The first seven days of his administration have been a blur of order and disorder, distraction and progress, movement, backtracking and public arguments. In other words, its very Trump.

What has emerged is a president who is comfortable shaking up established norms by throwing, and tweeting, nuggets into the news stream with the same regularity that he did as a candidate. His musings, including several that have no basis in fact, are making allies anxious and enemies furious. But that may be all according to plan.

Counselor Kellyanne Conways turn of phrase from the first weekend of the Trump presidency is already established in the political lexicon. Thats not just because its easy to mock on Twitter. Its because it looks increasingly like a White House strategy to establish its own standards for truth.

That means treating the press, to quote chief strategist Steve Bannon, as the opposition party. It also means claiming outright falsehoods as fact, as the president has in describing the crowd size at his inauguration and in maintaining that millions of undocumented immigrants swung the popular vote to Hillary Clinton. The Trump team is creating a messaging universe that reaches a base thats skeptical of the mainstream media. They are creating fights in areas that used to be off-limits, challenging the very definition of truth.

A flurry of executive actions have marked the early days of the Trump era. That means progress toward keeping campaign promises such as the border wall, extreme vetting for refugees from some Muslim countries, repealing Obamacare and scaling back trade deals. Or, at least, its the perception of progress: In many cases the true impact of these orders isnt what the Trump team says it is. Only legislative action will repeal and replace Obamacare, and accomplish things like setting up the funding mechanisms to start work on a massive wall along the Mexican border.

In that regard, theres no real progress a week in. Members of Congress of his own party are confused about the next steps, and worried that the next presidential tweet could veer them off-message for days or longer.

If its America first, we know whos not. Trump has already begun his assault on globalism, with moves to end trade deals, order up the border wall and move away from international climate accords. His actions on the wall provoked the president of Mexico to cancel a planned trip to the United States. He put the new prime minister of Great Britain in an awkward spot during her U.S. visit, with his anti-NATO rhetoric and public endorsement of tortures efficacy. And Trump still hasnt brought himself to criticize Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom hes scheduled to speak to for the first time over the weekend.

The Trump team, it seems, still does not want to be taken literally. A border tax was announced by the White House, only to be rescinded hours later. The president himself said he is convinced that torture works, but added that hell probably let his Defense secretary overrule him. Executive orders have been scheduled but pulled back, with drafts circulating widely in advocacy circles. The president casually mentioned that hes got his Supreme Court pick lined up to be announced next Thursday, and twice called the prime minister of Great Britain by her first name. Hes still Tweeting media observations and picking up the phone himself, taking a freewheeling style made famous on reality-TV shows right into the White House.

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ANALYSIS: 5 Takeaways From Donald Trump's 1st Week in Office - ABC News

Its been a busy first full week for President Donald Trump. The 45th president has signed a flurry of executive actions -- four executive orders and eight presidential memorandums in total. This does not count the executive order, memorandum and proclamation Trump signed on his Inauguration Day.

In case you missed it, heres a summary of what presidential actions Trump has signed:

Starting off the week, Trump signed three presidential memorandums, the most notable of which directed the United States withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations.

Another presidential memo Trump issued Monday established a hiring freeze for federal workers, except for the military.

Trump also reinstated the Mexico City Policy, a policy that prohibits federal funding to nongovernment organizations that promote or perform abortions. Since the policy was announced in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan, it has been revoked by every Democratic president only to be reinstated by their Republican successor.

President Trump signed an executive order and four presidential memorandums on Tuesday focused mostly on energy, infrastructure and pending pipeline projects.

Tuesday's executive order pushes for expedited environmental reviews and approvals for infrastructure projects. It is the policy of the executive branch to streamline and expedite, in a manner consistent with law, environmental reviews and approvals for all infrastructure projects, especially projects that are a high priority for the Nation, the order reads.

Two of Tuesday's memos aim at advancing the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines.

In the daily press briefing, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said the third memo signed by Trump Tuesday instructs the commerce secretary to submit a report recommending how best to streamline manufacturing permitting and to reach out to manufacturers and the public to identify regulations that are hurting them from moving forward.

And Tuesday's fourth memo orders the commerce secretary to lead a study looking into building the Keystone XL, Dakota Access and future pipelines with steel, pipes and accessories made in the U.S.

Trump signed two executive orders related to immigration and border security during a visit to Department of Homeland Security headquarters on Wednesday.

Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements -- Trumps first of the two executive orders that day -- sets in the motion the wall he promised he would build on the U.S-Mexico border. This order also brings an end to the catch and release policy, which temporarily releases some illegal immigrants due to limited detention space.

Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States calls for the removal of illegal immigrants whove been convicted of a criminal offense, charged with a criminal offense (where the charge hasnt been resolved), committed acts that constitute a chargeable criminal offense or in the judgment of an immigration officer, otherwise pose a risk to public safety or national security. It also orders that federal grant money be stripped from sanctuary cities, cities willing to defy federal immigration laws so as to protect illegal immigrants.

President Trump did not issue any presidential directives on Thursday.

President Trump signed a presidential memorandum for the defense secretary and the Office of Management and Budget director to conduct several reviews aimed at rebuilding U.S. Armed Forces.

And the last executive order of the week that Trump signed was his extreme vetting directive.

The executive order, titled Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States, suspends the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) for 120 days and immigration from countries with ties to terror, including Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Iraq, Iran and Libya, for a period of 90 days.

I hereby proclaim that the entry of nationals of Syria as refugees is detrimental to the interests of the United States and thus suspend any such entry until such time as I have determined that sufficient changes have been made to the USRAP to ensure that admission of Syrian refugees is consistent with the national interest, the executive order states.

It also halts the issuing of visas and other immigration benefits to people from countries of particular concern" and caps the entry of refugees in 2017 at 50,000.

Upon the resumption of USRAP admissions, priority will be given to refugees fleeing from religious-based persecution, provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual's country of nationality.

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As an artist and public figure, Madonna has always been forthright about her political opinions. She came out as a massive Hillary Clinton supporter during the 2016 election and has refused to mince words about her disdain for Donald Trump. The pair's feud hit its peak following the pop star's stirring, controversial speech at Saturday's Women's March in Washington D.C. following the inauguration, but they have been butting heads for nearly three decades now.

Round OneIn a 1989 cover story for Time Out, Madonna attends a boxing match at Trump Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, but as she enters the building with then-husband Sean Penn, she is met with a flurry of photographers. She blames the lack of privacy and security on Trump himself. "Where am I supposed to go? What am I supposed to do? I can't believe Donald Trump," she said at the time. She also played a sideline role in the Mike Tyson and Michael Spinks contest, with her face appearing prominently on a ringside 'Wanted' poster. Later in the story, she and Trump get into a bit of scuffle as he suggests she take better seats even though she doesn't want to leave behind her guest the journalist accompanying her all alone.

Round TwoThe concept of Trump becoming president was presented to Madonna back in 1990 during a conversation for Interview Magazine when the thenreal estate scion was first floating the idea of running. "With Marla? But he can't be president if he's had sex. That's the rule," she joked. The interviewer mentioned the now-POTUS' desire to be like JFK and having to "prove that he's a womanizer." When the interviewer suggests that Trump has an "aura of power," Madonna is dismissive. "He's a wimp," she responded, before alluding to the country's tendency to cycle between choosing family men and "a guy with a dick," as the singer put it, for the office. "Couldn't we get someone more handsome?" she adds.

Fake LoveTrump, seeming to have forgotten that Madonna publicized her lack of attraction towards him, decided to link the two in the news once more a year later. At the time, Trump was dealing with tabloid gossip that claimed that he had broken up with Marla Maples. People's Sue Carswell called his office and spoke to a man named "John Miller" who claimed he was Trump's publicist. "Miller" told Carswell that "important, beautiful women" like Madonna called his "client" all the time, asking him out. Both an associate of Trump and Maples confirmed to Carswell that John Miller was in fact Trump himself.

March on Washington and the AftermathAt the Women's March, Madonna gave an empowering speech to the hundreds of thousands of attendees. One line, however, drew ire from conservative websites that focused on the violent nature of her words: "Yes, I'm angry. Yes, I am outraged. Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House. But I know that won't change anything. We cannot fall into despair." Madonna later clarified that she meant to examine the difference between feeling hope and despair in response to the election, noting that her words were intended as a metaphor and that she never aims to promote violence. Newt Gingrich told the press that she should be arrested, and a radio station in Texas has stopped playing her songs because of her "un-American sentiments." As he is wont to do, Trump also responded to his critic during an interview with Sean Hannity for Fox News. "She's disgusting," he said. "I think she hurt herself very badly. I think she hurt that whole cause. I thought what she said was disgraceful to our country."

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