Each Trump storm this week sprang from a climate of turmoil

One White House kerfuffle after another cropped up this week in what felt like unusually quick succession.

That said, each episode followed a different chaotic precedent set during 13 months of turmoil under President Donald Trump.

For one, Trump on Wednesday signaled a reversal on the National Rifle Association stance on certain gun laws. He called senators “afraid” of the group, which in the same news cycle he hailed as “great patriots.”

This didn’t sit well with the GOP or the NRA. But all along, the congressional majority seems to collectively do as it will anyway with minimal input from the executive branch. Trump isn’t going to talk them into or out of acting on gun laws.

Besides, Trump from time to time tilts toward the Democrats to whose party he belonged before running for president. He also maintains a history of bashing lawmakers of both parties and demeaning his critics.

The bottom line for America so far is zero. The content of the weapons debate remains largely the same after Parkland as before.

On Thursday it was reported that the family real estate firm of Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and aide, got huge loans from Apollo Global Management and Citigroup.

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Joshua Harris, a founder of Apollo, met with Kushner while advising Trump administration officials on infrastructure policy. Kushner also met with Citigroup’s CEO.

Kushner’s lawyer said the spouse of Ivanka Trump “has taken no part of any business, loans or projects with or for” Kushner Companies while in the White House.

Nobody should be surprised at this flap.

Potential conflicts of interest have been a constant theme ever since Trump himself declined to divest from his private enterprises or release his own tax forms.

The departure of longtime Trump aide Hope Hicks as communications director — amid conflicting insider explanations — also fits a theme well established within the overall chaos.

From the start, Trump has parted ways with a press secretary, chief strategist, a few communications directors, a national security adviser, chief of staff, chief strategist and . . . well, you get the idea.

Trump’s public Twitter attack on Attorney General Jeff Sessions as making a “disgraceful” decision echoes past snits. These reflect the president’s rage over the independent Russia probe under the aegis of the Justice Department. So far, Sessions keeps the job.

When the president on Thursday announced new tariffs on foreign aluminum and steel, it culminated a fight inside his administration between his top trade advisers and some of his economic and national security aides.

But by several accounts, the decision took the tariff opponents by surprise. These officials purportedly first heard of the change in news reports.

That, too, fits the White House style, if that’s what it should be called.

By Dan Janison

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Dan Janison is a member of the Newsday editorial board.