At one year  Trump has changed Washington more than it has changed him
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In the year since his election   Donald Trump  has changed Washington more than Washington has changed  him .
Instead   Trump  continues to be the unpredictable bludgeon familiar from the 2016 campaign. He has forced Washington to adjust to him â accelerating the pace  raising the temperature and widening the fractures in both parties. In short: louder  faster  fiercer.
âTrumpâs successors can draw lessons from his successful and lasting appeal to the white working class  his flamboyant verbal disparagement of establishment Washington  his attempt to diminish a hostile mainstream media and his strong use of executive powers â says political scientist Steven Schier  co-author of The  Trump  Presidency: An Outsider in the Oval Office. âAll this has converted the presidency into an engine of battle. Future presidents will no doubt fire up that engine for their own purposes.â
 Trump  has intensified and magnified these trends. Partisanship has been hardening for decades  and President Obama expanded the use of executive action when  he  wasnât able to push legislation through an opposition-led Congress. Trust in the news media and the government was eroding well before  Trump  began attacking those institutions on Twitter.
That said  Trumpâs disruptive impact on Washington has gone beyond what would have been imaginable in an administration led by Clinton or by any of  Trump 's rivals for the Republican nomination.
 He  has redefined the GOP in  his  image â no longer the party of free trade  global leadership and deficit reduction but of âAmerica Firstâ and cultural warfare. In a new book being published next week former president George W. Bush told author Mark Updegrove  âIâm worried that I will be the last Republican president.â
And  Trump  has attacked the mainstream media as âfake newsâ and âenemies of the American people â casting the reporters who cover  him  as adversaries in a way that hasnât been seen since Richard Nixon.
 Trump  mentioned Wednesday's one-year anniversary at a rally with U.S. troops in Japan on Sunday  taking credit for economic progress since that "very  very special day."
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One year later   Trump  voters blame the president's tweets for his troubles
The sense of uncertainty and peril has been fueled by investigations into allegations that members of  Team Trump  may have colluded with Russian meddling in the election  which the president denies. The first indictments and plea deal announced last week by special counsel Robert Mueller signaled the opening of a new and potentially explosive new chapter on that scandal.
For  Trump   turbulence is a tactic and disruption a selling point.
âI think the American people elected somebody whoâs tough  whoâs smart and whoâs a fighter â White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a vigorous defense of his leadership style. âAnd thatâs  Donald Trump .â
Indeed   President Trump  is a lot like  Candidate Trump : A combative puncher and counter-puncher who wonât or canât back away from a fight or an insult. A master of social media who has deployed what amounts to a provocative personal broadcasting system. A critic of the establishment  even in his own party.
 Trump  declines to accommodate to the standard practices of  his  modern predecessors  including  his  refusal to release  his  tax returns. In recent days   he  blasted the actions of  his  own administration  calling the Armyâs decision not to imprison Bowe Bergdahl for desertion âa complete and total disgraceâ and saying  he  was âvery unhappyâ with the Justice Department for not pursuing investigations of Clinton.
Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE In his election victory speech   Trump  promised to be "president for all Americans" and said it was time to "bind the wounds of division." USA TODAY
In the year since his election    [TGT]   has changed Washington more than Washington has changed  him .
Instead   Trump  continues to be the unpredictable bludgeon familiar from the 2016 campaign. He has forced Washington to adjust to him â accelerating the pace  raising the temperature and widening the fractures in both parties. In short: louder  faster  fiercer.
âTrumpâs successors can draw lessons from his successful and lasting appeal to the white working class  his flamboyant verbal disparagement of establishment Washington  his attempt to diminish a hostile mainstream media and his strong use of executive powers â says political scientist Steven Schier  co-author of The  Trump  Presidency: An Outsider in the Oval Office. âAll this has converted the presidency into an engine of battle. Future presidents will no doubt fire up that engine for their own purposes.â
 Trump  has intensified and magnified these trends. Partisanship has been hardening for decades  and President Obama expanded the use of executive action when  he  wasnât able to push legislation through an opposition-led Congress. Trust in the news media and the government was eroding well before  Trump  began attacking those institutions on Twitter.
That said  Trumpâs disruptive impact on Washington has gone beyond what would have been imaginable in an administration led by Clinton or by any of  Trump 's rivals for the Republican nomination.
 He  has redefined the GOP in  his  image â no longer the party of free trade  global leadership and deficit reduction but of âAmerica Firstâ and cultural warfare. In a new book being published next week former president George W. Bush told author Mark Updegrove  âIâm worried that I will be the last Republican president.â
And  Trump  has attacked the mainstream media as âfake newsâ and âenemies of the American people â casting the reporters who cover  him  as adversaries in a way that hasnât been seen since Richard Nixon.
 Trump  mentioned Wednesday's one-year anniversary at a rally with U.S. troops in Japan on Sunday  taking credit for economic progress since that "very  very special day."
A tweet and a promise:  Trump  finds campaign pledges easy to tweet  harder to keep
One year later   Trump  voters blame the president's tweets for his troubles
The sense of uncertainty and peril has been fueled by investigations into allegations that members of  Team Trump  may have colluded with Russian meddling in the election  which the president denies. The first indictments and plea deal announced last week by special counsel Robert Mueller signaled the opening of a new and potentially explosive new chapter on that scandal.
For  Trump   turbulence is a tactic and disruption a selling point.
âI think the American people elected somebody whoâs tough  whoâs smart and whoâs a fighter â White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a vigorous defense of his leadership style. âAnd thatâs   [TGT]  .â
Indeed   President Trump  is a lot like  Candidate Trump : A combative puncher and counter-puncher who wonât or canât back away from a fight or an insult. A master of social media who has deployed what amounts to a provocative personal broadcasting system. A critic of the establishment  even in his own party.
 Trump  declines to accommodate to the standard practices of  his  modern predecessors  including  his  refusal to release  his  tax returns. In recent days   he  blasted the actions of  his  own administration  calling the Armyâs decision not to imprison Bowe Bergdahl for desertion âa complete and total disgraceâ and saying  he  was âvery unhappyâ with the Justice Department for not pursuing investigations of Clinton.