Article snippet: The TAKE with Rick Klein President Donald Trump has grown used to creating his own realities. That’s part of what makes this a jarring political moment: The president is in danger of being taken neither literally nor seriously, even inside his own party. As Trump heads back to the campaign trail Wednesday in Minnesota, and work continues on an immigration solution that is nowhere close to being resolved, the realities of the world he’s sought to reshape come into stark view. The stock market is sliding as a trade war moves out of the realm of the hypothetical. The United States has removed itself from the United Nations Human Rights Council. And the images of America, now being consumed both home and abroad, continue to be of children separated from their families indefinitely. Trump is raging at Democrats. But Republican lawmakers — the ones from the party that actually controls Washington — aren’t listening. He claims his hands are tied. But prominent members of his own party demand that he untie them. The focus will turn, inevitably and surely regrettably, to partisan finger-pointing about competing proposals. Yet at this moment, and not by design, Trump stands virtually alone. The RUNDOWN with MaryAlice Parks While most eyes are glued on the southern border, up north in Alaska the Trump administration is quickly ticking through steps to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas production. Rewind to last fall: Republic... Link to the full article to read more