Trump’s first month was full of easy wins. Can he keep up the controlled chaos?

It’s like clockwork: Most weekday afternoons, whether he’s due to speak to the press or not, President Donald Trump summons reporters. The Trump Hour is about to begin.

Since returning to office Jan. 20, Trump has used lengthy televised gab sessions − packaged as executive order signings − to make himself ubiquitous to Americans, shooting from the hip on question after question and dominating the news.

The flood of orders, and the verbal provocations that accompany them, are part of an early strategy to overwhelm the system with aggressive policy changes and command the national conversation through brute administrative force, Trump allies and insiders say.

“They’re talking a lot about what they’re doing. And talking about it again, and again, and again,” said Bradley Rateike, a former Trump White House aide. “They see that as a real tool to remind the American people of why they put them there.”