The people who voted for Donald Trump took to heart his campaign promises and sent him straight to the White House. However, no one in the media took him that seriously, and their jaws are still dragging on the floor, including NBC News’ Chuck Todd who continues to regret not taking Trump “both literally AND seriously.”

Trump’s actions over the last 12 hours have left Todd with his head spinning. While Trump’s making good on his campaign promises, Todd is struggling to find out how we got here:

Going back to the campaign, everyone should have taken Trump literally AND seriously. There's the border wall. "President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Wednesday to begin paying for a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border, a senior administration official told NBC News on Tuesday night, taking the first step toward fulfilling his marquee campaign promise," NBC's Kristen Welker and Alex Johnson reported last night. There's the Muslim ban -- or something very close to it. "U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders starting on Wednesday that include a temporary ban on most refugees and a suspension of visas for citizens of Syria and six other Middle Eastern and African countries, say congressional aides and immigration experts briefed on the matter," Reuters says. And there's Trump's debunked claim of massive voter fraud in the 2016 election. "I will be asking for a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD," the president tweeted this morning.

Todd continued in his piece at NBCnews.com:

But the bigger lesson here is that EVERY WORD a president or a presidential candidate utters matters. During the campaign so many people kept saying, "Guys, he's going to pivot on that Muslim ban." Or: "The wall is only an applause line." Well, look where we are today.

And with what the president has planned to combat Chicago’s violence epidemic, Todd and is cohorts in the media are finally sitting up and taking notice and in typical progressive fashion, they are shaking in their boots:

And if you take Trump both literally and seriously, then his tweet about Chicago last night matters. "If Chicago doesn't fix the horrible 'carnage' going on, 228 shootings in 2017 with 42 killings (up 24% from 2016), I will send in the Feds!" (Remember when the GOP was the party against federal overreach?) So does his tweet this morning about investigating voter fraud. In two tweets, the president essentially said that A) one of its largest cities is uninhabitable, and B) our democracy doesn't work. Words and tweets matter -- whether they're campaign rhetoric (wall, Muslim ban), apparent rhetorical grenades at opponents (Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel), or acts of defiance (doubling down on unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud).

Buckle up, buttercups.