It is said of some men that they are so belligerent that they could start a brawl in an empty room. Donald Trump’s gift is similar, but slightly different: the American President could generate an endless supply of front-page headlines even from the deep vacuum of space.

Trump is a perpetual motion machine of story generation, seemingly requiring absolutely nothing in the way of substance or raw material. These stories are as relentless as they are varied.

Among the latest is the decision of the Trump White House to hang a portrait of an autopen in the place of Joe Biden, a reference to Trump’s obsession that his predecessor signed laws using the tool, which he thinks would invalidate them.

Separately, Trump himself seems determined to turn an incident over a faulty escalator at the U

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