President Trump is only beginning the second month of his second term but divisions are already erupting.

The friction is so obvious that Democrats, having been pummeled by their election loss last November, are taking heart.

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville told SiriusXM’s Dan Abrams in a Friday interview that the Trump administration “is in the midst of a massive collapse.”

That is almost certainly hyperbole fueled by wishful-thinking. But Carville’s comment, even if exaggerated, contains a kernel of truth.

There are obvious divides among Republicans on two very different issues.

One, the war in Ukraine, is a matter of global significance. The other, the furor over Elon Musk’s role in trying to scythe down the size of the federal government, has more in common with the reality TV-style drama that always surrounds Trump.

Both issues are in focus right now.

French President Emmanel Macron visited the White House on Monday to make the case for maintaining American support for Ukraine in its quest to rebuff the Russian invasion that began in February 2022.

At the same time, federal workers are trying to figure out what they should do about an ominous request that bears Musk’s fingerprints – a demand to deliver a bullet-point summary of what they had accomplished last week.

Musk wrote on social media on Saturday afternoon that all federal employees were about to “receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week.”

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