Two pieces about the above 8 months in to Trump 2.0…..
Reemeber….
Politics IS about ‘PERCEPTIONS’ and daily Trump stories in the media HEADLINE Trump ‘s actions….
Remember ALSO….
Trump & Co. HAVE BEEN succesful in scaring big media outlets into holding BACK from DIRECT attacks like they had done before the last November’s election.
Stories on the Trump mishaps, loses and outright lies often end up down low on front pages or nor on front pages at all….
Things ARE different these days….
‘Do NOT piss off the King’….
It could cost you money….
Or a vist from the Trump Jusice Dedpratment…
President Donald Trump is vowing to wield apocalyptic power inside the United States, even as the adverse impact of some of his key policies is becoming clear.
His weekend share of a social media meme in which he threatened to wage war on Chicago, the next Democratic city up in his crime and immigration crackdown, was a classic Trumpian tactic. It depicted him as a strongman unafraid to impose force and incited liberal outrage to delight his base. It was also laced with menace and implied lawlessness that reflects his view of the presidency as a tool of personal power rather than a constitutionally limited national trust.
Still, beneath Trump’s hyperbole, there are signs that his second administration, eight months in, is entering a new phase. His frenetic pace and thunderclap tests of the Constitution have thus far had a disorienting impact. Courts struggled to keep up. Democrats flailed, mourning their election loss and trying to work out the basic business of learning to talk to Americans….
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The administration doesn’t have much time for district court rulings, arguing, sometimes with reason, that it will fare better in more conservative appeals courts and at a Supreme Court with an expansive interpretation of executive power.
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Trump has another thing on his side — there’s no chance that supine Republicans on Capital Hill will do anything to check him, even though his actions off Venezuela and in trade wars are usurping congressional power.
And if all else fails, the White House simply declares victory. Trump’s claims to have ended seven wars might be an exaggeration, and his trade deals lack details — but they sure sound good.
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Will Trump’s so far impregnable support from a base that always sustains him crack if the economic goes bad? How long will his promise that a golden age is beckoning stand up if inflation strikes, unemployment rises and economic gloom envelops the nation?
In the short term, Friday’s jobs report may offer some political help by prompting the Federal Reserve into larger interest-rate cuts than expected. But Trump’s attempt to eviscerate the independence of the central bank is a longer-term issue. He could send prices soaring if he orchestrates huge rate cuts next year after the end of the term of the Fed chief, whom he calls “Too Late” Jerome Powell.
The impending peril can be detected in in scattershot response to the jobs report from Trump’s subordinates. Bessent said on NBC that August was the “noisiest” month of the year statistically. National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that the problem was “dissonance in data.” Wealthy Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick predicted on CNBC that great jobs numbers would be “starting six months from today to a year from today.” That’s no consolation for a working American who just lost their job in Trump’s economy.
None of these officials addressed the core issue: the impact on the economy of idiosyncratic trade policies that have long obsessed one man — the president — but that most experts believe are rooted in fantasy.
Perhaps the economy, which has been extraordinarily resilient, will save Trump. If not, Americans will learn whether he can truly defy political gravity. At that point, a meme of Bill Kilgore, the amoral but guilt-free protagonist of “Apocalypse Now,” wouldn’t be of much help…..
Trump Poll Numbers show lack of support amoung Americans’ other than GOPer’s who also show some loss of support….
One night last week, Donald Trump took to social media to threaten to remove Rosie O’Donnell’s U.S. citizenship because she criticized the dear leader. In Trump’s first term, a post like that might have been dismissed as the late-night ravings of an angry poster — something to be taken neither seriously nor literally. But things are different in Trump 2.0. The official White House X account reposted Trump’s call to denaturalize an American citizen for her political views — effectively making it government policy.
None of this came out of nowhere. Top Trump aides, including Stephen Miller, have openly discussed aggressively using the rarely employed denaturalization process.
No matter what you think about Rosie O’Donnell, a president threatening to revoke someone’s citizenship for their political views should be a bright red line in American politics.
The very next night, Trump was feted at the White House by the billionaire CEOs of America’s largest tech companies. Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, and others debased themselves by lavishing him with excessive praise. At one point, Cook thanked Trump eight times in just two minutes.
The tech CEOs are only one example. Across the board — corporations, universities, media outlets, law firms, and even some Democrats — institutions are preemptively surrendering to Trump rather than standing up for themselves or their country.
Some are motivated by pure self-interest or fear of being targeted by Trump’s goons. But many have convinced themselves that Trump’s agenda is simply what the country wants. They justify their submission as a natural response to the 2024 election results.
That’s nonsense. As two new polls make clear, Trump is a political paper tiger. His standing is weaker than that of any president in recent memory, and the American people are not with him….