It’s been another whirlwind week, and I’m going to synopsize what I see as the three biggest stories. We start out, as we so often do (but so wish we didn’t), with Donald Trump. “Whew! Doesn’t it feel like we can all exhale now after four years of holding our breath?” Tom Eastman’s sentiment from Saturday’s Sun bears repeating.

And yet, might exhaling be premature? After all, Trump promises to be the gift that just keeps on giving — but apparently not to Netflix star Joe Exotic, aka the Tiger King. The Trump presidency had a stunning surprise ending. In his grand finale pardoning blitz, Trump granted pardons/commutations to 143 people, but Joe Exotic wasn’t among them. I did not see that coming! Four years of shock after shock after shock, but this topped them all.

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