"From the start, Trump and his officials have inveighed against what he has labeled the “deep state.” What he’s meant by the term, though, is very different from its more traditional use. Rather than referring to a “shadow or parallel system of government” operating outside official channels, for Trump the deep state is the government — or at least those parts of it that frustrate him in any way. In other words, for the Trump administration and its supporters, the deep state is any part of t he apparatus of government itself that doesn’t do their absolute bidding. The Huffington Post has assembled a convenient list of some of Trump’s tweets invoking the “deep state.” Here’s a summary:"