Below is what happened on Trump's 21st day in office. You can find out what damage was done every other day so far on the Saddest Calendar on the Internet.Happy one month anniversary of Donald Trump's inauguration! It's also President's Day, which people around the world are celebrating with anti-Trump art installations, burlesque shows, and a whole slew of gatherings and performances—perhaps it's better to call the holiday by the nickname it's picked up this year, Not My President's Day. Also in the resistance spirit is the UK parliament, who are debating today whether or not Trump should be allowed to make an official State Visit after almost 1.9 million people signed a petition to voice their opposition of his visit. The petition's reasoning: "It would cause embarrassment to Her Majesty the Queen."Not much is reportedly on the Trump administration's schedule today—the Senate isn't voting on any remaining cabinet nominees, no executive orders are supposedly getting signatures, and Trump is giving the world some time to recover after last Friday's insane news conference before unleashing another. And in comparison to those past, this past weekend was relatively slow for the administration.Vice President Mike Pence has been over in Western Europe, going to cities to give speeches and attempt to assuage our allies' fears with his Midwestern charm. In Munich, he vocalized that the US's commitment to NATO is unwavering, though according to the New York Times, his messages "appeared to have done little to reassure Europeans who think that making NATO commitments conditional on spending undermines the alliance's credibility and deterrence." Also abroad was US Defense Secretary James Mattis, who was in Baghdad, where he told reporters that the US was "not in Iraq to seize anyone's oil"—a stance that conflicts with his boss's own view, best summed up by the President himself as "We should have kept the oil."
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And then there are the Trumps themself, who spent their third weekend in a row at their Mar-a-Lago estate, a total of trips that the Washington Post reports could have cost the US treasury up to $10 million."Trump's three Mar-a-Lago trips since the inauguration have probably cost the federal treasury about $10 million, based on figures used in an October government report analyzing White House travel, including money for Coast Guard units to patrol the exposed shoreline and other military, security and staffing expenses associated with moving the apparatus of the presidency," the article reads.It appears that today, on this President's day, a federal holiday, we all may be able to breathe a bit. And perhaps it's not a bad time to go back in our Saddest Calendar on the Internet to reflect on how ridiculously long this past month has truly felt.Read more: Trump Is the Pettiest President Yet. Sad!