The real shocker: Trump is a politician who delivers on his promises :0

Here we are, barely a week into the Trump administration, and half of the country that opposed him during the election is quivering with rage. He’s building the wall ! He’s banning immigration from some Muslim countries ! He’s wrecking ObamaCare ! He’s sacking top officials at the State Department ! He’s threatening sanctuary cities ! What’s going on here? The answer is simple: we’ve become so inured to politicians lying to us to get elected that we find it hard to believe that the new man in the White House actually meant what he said – and can’t wait to get on with it.

Trump inauguration draws nearly 31 mln U.S. television viewers

Nearly 31 million viewers watched live U.S. television coverage of Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration, far fewer than tuned in to Barack Obama’s first swearing-in, but otherwise the biggest such audience since Ronald Reagan entered office, ratings firm Nielsen reported on Saturday. The tally for Trump – 30.6 million viewers on 12 broadcast and cable networks that aired live coverage from about 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. EST – surpassed the TV audiences measured for his two most recent Republican predecessors – both inaugurations of George W. Bush and the one of his father, George H.W. Bush.

Why people are so shocked at Trump

President Trump’s executive order temporarily barring some immigrants and refugees from entering the U.S. led to mixed messages from government officials and stoked confusion among green card holders unsure if the policy applied to them. Photo: AP.

New Legislature, same old problem in Illinois: No budget

Illinois’ financial crisis is being handed off from one set of lawmakers to another this week – a problem that, at 18 months, is the nation’s longest-running budget stalemate. The key players: The conservative businessman-turned-governor Bruce Rauner and Michael Madigan, the old-school Democratic House speaker whose decades at the helm has made him a Capitol institution.