At the risk of mirroring the kind of hyperbole that is quickly turning Donald Trump into something akin to the nation’s first living caricature, has any newly-installed president ever sabotaged his own administration as the fledgling 45th president of the United States as done in his first few days? Surely the lowlight of this self-inflicted major surgery was a top aide’s use of the term, “alternative facts,” on a Sunday morning TV talk show to excuse the blatant lies trotted out Saturday by his spokesman who accused the media of under-reporting inauguration crowd sizes.