CAN HE BE TAMED?

IN A WHITE-WALLED SUITE ON THE second floor of the West Wing, about a dozen of Donald Trump’s top aides gathered with their early-evening coffees on a recent Monday to map out the President’s midsummer message. Most people in the country now know that that task is akin to staging an opera in a hurricane. But for a handful of senior aides, imposing order on the chaotic nature of the Trump presidency has become something of an obsession.

Just a few weeks earlier, White House aides had christened June “Jobs Month” only to find the story line’s launch upended by a misfired May 31 midnight tweet from the President featuring the nonword covfefe. “Infrastructure Week” largely fell victim to the testimony of former FBI director James Comey, prompting mockery from no less than Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, who returned from a trip to the gleaming airports of China to ask, “How did ‘Infrastructure Week’ go?” And “Workforce Development Week”