Get Over It: The Washington Post reports that during a meeting with congressional leaders yesterday Trump spent about 10 minutes talking about his campaign and how three to five million illegal voters cost him the popular vote.

There is no proof, and no claims of millions of illegally cast votes other than those coming from the President. Several news outlets, including the NY Times, are reporting Trump’s claim as outright “false.”

Stroke of the Pen: In one of his first major actions, President Trump yesterday signed an order withdrawing the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, junking President Obama’s biggest trade deal.

The deal between the US and 11 Pacific Rim countries was likely to die in Congress and had been opposed by both Trump and his opponent Hillary Clinton during the campaign. Trump has also said he wants to re-negotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement between the US, Mexico and Canada.

In remarks as he sat at his desk in the Oval Office, Trump told visiting union leaders, “We’re going to stop the ridiculous trade deals that are taking everybody out of our country, taking companies out of our country. And it’s going to be reversed. I think you’re going to have a lot of companies come back to our country.”

Trump also reinstated a Reagan era policy preventing foreign health agencies who accept US aid from even discussing abortion with clients. They are already prohibited from offering abortion services, but now they can’t even talk about it.

Advice and Consent: Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio announced that, “despite my reservations,” he will vote for Rex Tillerson to become Secretary of State, pretty much clearing the way for Tillerson’s confirmation. Rubio had expressed doubts about the ExxonMobil executive’s ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Mike Pompeo was confirmed as director of the CIA, but Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services is still in the woods. There are some big questions about his investments.

Time Magazine reported, “Donald Trump’s nominee to be the country’s next health care czar invested last year as much as $90,000 in six pharmaceutical companies shortly before leading a legislative and public relations effort that benefited those specific companies, records show.

Within weeks of making investments worth between $1,000 and $15,000 in Eli Lilly, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Amgen, McKesson, Biogen and Pfizer according to Congressional disclosure forms, Rep. Tom Price co-sponsored legislation and took part in a public effort that ultimately killed proposed regulatory changes that would have likely hurt those companies’ bottom lines.”

The Business of President:  Calling the President’s business connections a “grave threat,” a liberal watchdog group filed a lawsuit claiming that President Trump is violating the Constitution by allowing his worldwide businesses to accept payments from foreign governments.

The clause in the Constitution that prohibits the President from accepting payments from foreign governments is a little vague, and the lawsuit might be a stretch. Trump called the lawsuit “without merit, totally without merit,” but the suit signals coming contention over his businesses.

A tad late, Trump’s representatives began filing documents in Florida, Delaware and New York to transfer control of his businesses to his sons Donald Jr. and Eric. ProPublica news service reported that as of the end of the day Friday, nothing had been filed.

Weekend Update: Saturday Night Live writer Katie Rich was immediately suspended Friday for tweeting about President Trump’s 10-year-old son that, “Barron will be this country’s first homeschool shooter.” The suspension is indefinite, which probably means she’s fired. The parents are fair game, but never the kids.

World: Britain’s Supreme Court has ruled that Parliament must vote before the country files notice to leave the European Union. The popular vote to leave the EU was not binding. — Three fluffy white puppies were recovered from the wreckage of an Italian alpine hotel buried in an avalanche, giving rescuers hopes of finding more human survivors. Twenty-two people are still missing.

Thin Skin: White House Spokesman Sean Spicer, who bombed in his first outing Saturday, took questions from reporters for more than an hour yesterday, but took time to bemoan about how the press treats the new administration. “The default narrative is always negative,” Spicer said, “And that’s demoralizing.” Sean, this is the honeymoon.

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