For a quick observation, pause various constitutional crises, geopolitical showdowns, and doj dramas. Does Donald Trump seem busy?
Recently, he kicked off what the media called “Tax Week” by declaring Sunday, February 9th as America’s Gulf Day. This happened when he flew to New Orleans and became the first sitting US president to attend the Super Bowl. In the last two years that President Trump has reiterated (1) that Canada should become the 51st US state, (2) refused to support Vice President JD Vance as his successor (but he is very capable”) and (3) called Gaza the “demolition site.”
Trump spent much of the afternoon and evening making a fuss over billionaires, celebrities and other high-ranking officials in front of 127.7 million viewers during the most viewed television broadcast in history. He was almost cheered when his ubiquitous mug was shown on the big screen of the Caesars Superdome before the game. He concluded the weekend by stoking bad blood on True Social (“Booing from the Stadium”) with Kamala Harris supporter Taylor Swift. Ta.
After a brief, overnight rest, the Trump-centric events continued to surge amidst a gust of permanent movement, also known as Monday and Tuesday. Trump will place a 25% duties on all steel and aluminum imports, forgive former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevic and if Hamas does not release all Israeli hostages by noon on Saturday, he will be ” All hell will be broken.” He has signed an executive order calling for the suspension of federal purchases of all these loose paper straws (let’s face it, it’s just as annoying as Penny). It significantly reduces federal labor. This came hours after he held an oval office meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan. We hold it. I will take good care of it. ”
Summary: Yes, Trump definitely seems busy.
Of course, opinions differ as to whether this is busy or catastrophic kind. And because it is worth it, several federal judges have declared themselves hostile to Trump’s executive orders. Anyway, these rapid fire feeding of attention-grabbing feed represents the basic ethics of Trump 2.0. And despite all the whiplash, turbulence and contradictions, people seem to like it so far.
A CBS News/YouGov poll released Sunday said 53% of the 2,175 US adults surveyed have approved the work Trump is doing. Perhaps more clear, poll respondents described these first weeks of the 78-year-old president’s term as “energizing”, “focusing” and “effective.” They may not necessarily approve that Trump was energetic, concentrated and effective (forgive the perpetrator on January 6th, for example) or not (66% replied that Trump has not paid sufficient attention to lowering prices of goods and services. But Trump has created a sense of action, mayhem, confusion, and perhaps even destruction that many voters seem to be welcoming for now. At least there’s nothing sleepy about this.
“He said he was going to do something, and he’s doing that,” one woman told the Biden-turned Trump voter Bullwork Focus group that took place after Trump returned to the White House. Ta. At this point, this “something” fact seems to outweigh the content. The woman said she works in clinical research at a hospital and interacts with people who could lose the National Health Subsidy to the barrage of Trump and Musk cuts. She explained about the work environment that was thrown into chaos.
“So, what do we do? We don’t know. The CEO doesn’t know. We’re a little confused,” the woman said. “I’m not saying it’s the right move, it’s the wrong move,” she added. “But it’s definitely like something is going on. He’s actually doing something.”
Sarah Longwell, the publisher of Bullwalk, which runs the Focus Group, told me that Trump appears to be benefiting from “Joe Biden’s complete lack of communication” while in office. . Longwell said he’s heard repeatedly from voters that he doesn’t know what Biden wants to take office or what he was doing. “He created this huge gap in presidential communication that Trump is currently filling,” Longwell said.
She added that Biden is also offering a caveat example of how the president’s first popularity becomes fleeting. Four years ago, at this same time, voters were extremely grateful that there were residents who were not always on their faces. Biden was seen as restoring “normality” after the turbulent and violent end of the co-fighting station in the tumultuous period of Trump’s first term. He voted for the low ’60s in the CBS survey in March 2021, still compared to Franklin D. Roosevelt, and was popular until the summer of 2021, when Afghanistan moved south and inflation headed north. I was enjoying it.
A feature of a president’s honeymoon is that he tends to look better when the president acts in contrast to his predecessor, especially when his predecessor is unpopular. Another feature of those honeymoon times: they tend not to last. In other words, Trump should take care of this as much as he can, or until all hell breaks out and people start pinning for normalcy again.
