CNN weekend host Michael Smerconish spent more than six minutes in his opening, detailing Trump's accomplishments over the past 12 days. //

Winning became a punchline that Trump’s opponents used to lampoon him in his first administration. He was a political novice then, surrounded by a team with which he was unfamiliar, and he was probably as surprised as the rest of us were that he won the election.

This time is different. This time he came with a plan and a cabinet with senior advisers comprised of loyalists, all well known to the president. And recently, he’s exhibited a more layered approach to governing on both the domestic and international front, no longer solely guided by winning each day’s news cycle.

By any objective measure, President Trump has his opponents on the run.