Trump feels like he's having a good month despite impeachment

President Trump is about to be impeached, yet at the White House, it doesn’t feel like he’s having a bad month.

As he faces down a historic vote in the House this week, Trump is reveling in a series of legislative and executive victories.

On Friday, Trump announced terms of a “phase one” trade agreement with China that he trumpeted as a “phenomenal deal” that leaves room for a more substantial accord moving forward.

The pact followed a flurry of legislative deals brokered between the White House and Congress.

The House passed an annual defense policy bill establishing Trump’s long-desired Space Force and paid parental leave for federal workers; members of Congress appear on the verge of passing a complement of spending bills; and the House is poised to approve the president’s signature North American trade deal, which Trump himself dubbed the “silver lining to impeachment.”

Put together, the legislative victories provide achievements that Trump, constantly seeking to validate his deal-making persona, can tout on the campaign trail once impeachment is in the rearview.

“I think the way we look at it is this impeachment is fatally flawed. But we haven’t been paralyzed by it. We haven’t been driven into a corner by it,” said Eric Ueland, director of legislative affairs in the White House.

“In partnership with a split Congress in this split-screen moment, we’ve been able to pull off some great results,” he said.

Trump observed Friday in the Oval Office that it had been a “wild week.”