You make some excellent points Dermot Cole but the hope you present being carried out by the Legislature or the press to make him see sense is perhaps naive.  Trump has made every effort to insulate himself from any disagreement.  Evidence ranges from his preference to use Twitter to release information, to ditching the press corp, to holding the rare press conference, to his once a week intelligence report all demonstrates that Trump has no interest in conflicting information to his belief system.  That he will rely on or fabricate "alternate facts."  Even worse that he will actively work to not just deny but discredit anyone who questions or disagrees through the use of his "beautiful" Twitter account.

I almost feel sorry for Conway and Spicer.  Being a part of the closed microcosm of even a transparent administration is demanding enough without being caught between a boss who cannot or will not accept disagreement and a world functioning upon objectively verifiable facts.