Donald Trump IS ACTUALLY WEAK….

Yup….

I  HAVE company in my view that beneath ALL the screaming Headlines?

President Donald Trump seems to be a guy standing on the side, trying to score, but only getting headlines and little actual hits….

And those little hits ARE beginning to evaporate …

Trump & Co. have finally awaken the people he’s rolling….

Musk has been going WTF over his head….

Doubts are beginning to surface about WHO is actually in charge?

The President?

Or Musk’s DOGE ?

And the….

Project 2025 people…

 

People are being told to stay home…(By Whom?)

Those people are in place ALL ove the country….

Other people working under US Government funded projects are being told to stay home….

People are being told they can stay home and get apid UNTIL September?

Govt. Employye’s PAID to stay HOME?

Folks?

Wait time the media focusues on that one!

 

Come next month the Spending Bills are coming due….

Trump wants One…

That IS MOST probably another Trump fantasy…

And Republicans and Democrats ARE itching to get THEIR ‘wants’ that are incompatible with what ole Trump wants to  say got what ‘HE’ wanted….

 

Trump and his leader Elon are already crashing in the polls….

And THAT?

IS gonna worry one Donald Trump….

Cause?

Bad poll numbers mean BAD Optics….

And Bad Optics means Donald Trump, the Felon, IS Striking Out….

NOT a Good Look and Feeling for the old gay at All?

Who will soon be say?

But, They Love Me?

 

Indeed, in his first term, a lot of those who defeated Trump were his own party in Congress or people he chose for White House or executive branch positions. So if I’m talking narrowly here about Trump being weak it may mean Elon Musk or Project 2025 authoritarian rule with the president as little more than a figurehead, rather than a return to normal Constitutional government guided by some theoretical responsible Republicans. Or it may just mean that the nation stumbles forward without effective leadership, which has another possibly severe set of costs.

Which gets us to Trump’s sorry reputation, which certainly has not been enhanced since January 20. I’m thinking primarily about foreign policy. It’s not just that he’s picked fights with (at least) Panama, Denmark, Colombia, Mexico, Canada, Egypt, Jordan, and South Africa so far, not to mention all the nations who are losing out in the massacre of USAID, the withdrawal from WHO and climate agreements, additional tariff threats against the EU and others, and all those who oppose Trump’s Gaza scheming. Any of that (and I’d say all of it) may be bad for the US, but not necessarily for Trump’s reputation.

However, that he was widely seen as backing down from his tariff threats against Mexico and Canada are another matter, showing him to be a paper tiger no one has to take very seriously. Followed by the administration backpedaling on Gaza. Indeed, as I read the coverage, those retreats have influenced the interpretation of the Colombia showdown, which originally seemed (in the US media at least!) as something of a win for Trump. Now, it seems more of a pattern in which Trump’s initial bullying can be deflected pretty easily as long as you let him claim some sort of historic victory. And it’s easy to do that because he’s poorly informed, poorly prepared, and just not very good at negotiating if his original bluster doesn’t win compliance.

The more everyone believes that about Trump, the less they’ll respect his initial threats. And that’s basically the only play he knows.

Trump has been more successful at intimidating Republican Senators into confirming his cabinet after initially defeating him on Matt Gaetz. That said…same-party Senators almost always support cabinet nominees (although they’ve never been tested with anyone like Trump’s worst choices). And it’s also not clear whether it’s Trump exerting this influence here, as opposed to that of Republican-aligned media.

One fairly good test case is coming. Trump’s election-season tax giveaways, such as making tips tax-free, certainly appear to be something he cares about but congressional Republicans don’t. So we’ll see whether he’s able to keep these provisions in whatever tax bill eventually passes.

The point is that under the way the presidency has worked up to now, Trump’s shoddy presidenting would have real consequences for him, and not good ones. What we don’t know is whether Trump has found a way to make that irrelevant.

I’m just talking reputation here, but this is also why I’ve been paying close attention to Trump’s polling numbers. Again, in normal times being unpopular would hurt his ability to keep allies on board; again, we don’t really know whether that’s the case any more (and see what Julia said here).

I realize it may sound totally goofy to speculate about this president’s weakness while also joining with those raising alarms about his overthrow of the republic. But I don’t think the two are incompatible at all. Whether he realizes it or (more likely) not, Trump doesn’t want to play by the rules at least in part because he’s apt to be a big loser under the Constitution, in which presidents need complex skills to get anything done….

More…

Note….

Trump has come out and said Musk only does what He, Trump tells him to do, But reports of Trump’s staff NOT knowing what’s going on and Trump even make that statement would seem to confirm that the new President is just a puppet being stung along by the ‘slash and burn’ guys….

Wait…

Lets see hiw this plays with Trump dropping in the polls and people being sent home for governmENt and private jobs due to ‘cuts’…

Note….

Panama ain’t letting US warship thru the canal for Free….

Greenland ain’t for Sale….

Canada ain’t the 51st State…

Mexico and Canada don’t have tariff’s….

China DOES and so does the US exports TO China…

Anybody get the latest MASS Deportation numbers?

How many judges have STIOPPED Trump?Musk moves?

I mean the above ain’t examples of Trump and Musk burying Democracy Folks….

They ain’t even wins….