Donald Trump may be publicly mute at Mar-a-Lago, but there are early stirrings of movement

What would Donald think?

It’s a question almost no-one has had to ask or answer for the last five years or so.

Thanks to the power of the White House and the unfiltered reach of his social media accounts, Donald J Trump’s every thought, opinion, like or dislike — and there were a lot — seemed to be made known to hundreds of millions of followers, almost as soon as they occurred to him.

Out of office and ousted from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube — “de-platformed” is the inelegant tech description — the world has gone a week without a word. Not one. Anywhere on the public record.

If the silence isn’t striking enough, consider the contrast with the corresponding week in January last year.

That’s when the then-president set…