4 WEEKS DOWN, 204 TO GO

The highlight of week four of Donald J. Trump's Fake Presidency (thank you, Mika Brzezinski) was, of course, the press conference from the eighth dimension. After three weeks of semi-chaos topped by the departure of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, the Trumpster decided to go on the attack.

And it must be said that he did what he does best: talk mostly nonsense but with such force and utter disregard for accuracy and truth that he emerged, in his own mind and in the view of most of his supporters, as the winning party. His strongest attribute may be that he is impervious to the "gotcha." He doesn't blink or pause, just keeps on expounding the nonsense.

An example involved his statement that he had achieved the biggest Electoral College victory since Reagan. A reporter pointed out to him the fact (not a fake fact but a real one) that Clinton, Obama, and Bush 41 all had greater majorities in the Electoral College. He dismissed the first two with "Well, I'm talking about Republicans" and the last with "I was given that information, I was just given it." And with hardly a pause, he was on to something else.

In short, he expounds his own fake reality, nothing is ever his fault, and he has an unequaled ability to steamroll "gotchas." 204 weeks to go.