Not a great move when the narrative is almost entirely favorable to the mayors and the 50 odd days of street theater they have allowed

CNN, MSNBC, pretty much all the media are against him, giving Tammy Duckworth and others an open mike to attack the Duce.

He has some defenders in conservative media whose public reach is virtually negligible.

The Duce is apparently planning to send federales to a slew of major cities with Democratic mayors, still ongoing demonstrations breaking down apparently every day into rioting, and a marked uptick in violent crime.

Trump administration preparing to send federal agents to Chicago

The tenor of the reaction in Democratic media such as CNN and MSNBC is not far from that of Steve M's post on the deployments to Portland and Chicago.

Meanwhile, on Fox News cable, this is very nearly a non-story.

(It looks like Hannity - "Unrest in America Out of Control" - and a few others with talk shows are supporting him.)

Not much to be found at the Fox website, either.

But talking heads at Fox cable have talked some about this apparently unconstitutional and unprecedented absurdity.

Trump signs order to prevent illegal immigrants from being counted in redrawing of voting districts

A White House official said it clarifies that those in the country illegally would not be included for the redrawing process -- known as apportionment -- of congressional districts after the census. 

Census counts are used to determine the allocation of seats in the House of Representatives, the number of electors in the Electoral College and hundreds of billion dollars of federal spending.

“Excluding illegal aliens for the purpose of apportionment reflects a better understanding of our Constitution and democratic principles,” the official said.

The order says that the Constitution "does not specifically define which persons must be included in the apportionment base."

"Although the Constitution requires the 'persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed,' to be enumerated in the census, that requirement has never been understood to include in the apportionment base every individual physically present within a State's boundaries at the time of the census," the order says.

"Instead, the term 'persons in each State' has been interpreted to mean that only the 'inhabitants' of each State should be included," it says. 

"Determining which persons should be considered 'inhabitants' for the purpose of apportionment requires the exercise of judgment."

It then says that that discretion "delegated to the executive branch to determine who qualifies as an 'inhabitant includes authority to exclude from the apportionment base aliens who are not in a lawful immigration status."