In two weeks Donald Trump will serve his one-hundredth day as President of the United States of America. He approaches that milestone with an approval rating of 40 percent, the lowest of any modern-day president at this stage of his tenure. The man who made his reputation, and part of any fortune he might possess, in front of the television cameras is acutely aware that on that day several television specials will air. And that most will probably have a less laudatory tone than he would prefer.

The president is making a two-pronged effort to prepare his responses. First, he told his staff to end their internal feuds and jockeying for position and give him some boasting points. Second, he converted from an anti-establishment president determined to “drain the swamp” of Washington politics to full-time wooer of the establishment he was elected to destroy, some say under the tutelage of this week’s rising star, Gary Cohn, director of the National Economic Council and, it seems, reigning head of the Washington branch of the Goldman Sachs alumni association.