Elisabeth Bumiller

Old friends are bewildered by the turn taken by the second lady, a onetime Democrat and former litigator for a San Francisco firm. Others say she’s happy in the role.

President Trump is pondering swift military action in Iran. There were similar expectations that the war in Iraq would be quick and triumphant.

There’s a lot of work for lawyers in the nation’s capital these days: Over 400 lawsuits have been filed against President Trump’s administration since the start of his second term.

In a Washington rived by political differences, four private clubs reflect the sorting of the city’s establishment into separate corners at a turbulent time.

Beyond the politics is a brew of resentment and reverence that the president, an Ivy League graduate himself, has long harbored for a club that has never accepted him.

“You have to laugh to keep from crying,” one Republican pollster said about recent comments by the billionaires on the stock market, retirement funds and Social Security.

But a fight with the nation’s oldest, richest and most elite university is a battle that President Trump and his powerful aide, Stephen Miller, want to have.

Trabajadores federales, rectores de universidades, directores ejecutivos e incluso republicanos veteranos no se pronuncian en contra del presidente de EE. UU. por temor.

People say they are intimidated by online attacks from the president, concerned about harm to their businesses or worried about the safety of their families.

What will a thin-skinned showman do with an institution central to Washington’s cultural life? One expectation is more country music.