Distributions The different constitutional crises, geopolitical confrontations and dramas Doge to make a simple observation: Donald Trump seems a little busy, right?
In recent days, he has launched what the media have nicknamed “Tariff Week” by declaring on Sunday, February 9, being Gulf of America Day. This happened while he flew to New Orleans to become the very first American president sitting to attend the Super Bowl and just before Fox News broadcasts an interview with the Super Bowl Sunday / Gulf of America Day , a tradition of presidential writing that Joe Biden has exploded in the past two years, in which Trump, among others, (1) reiterated that Canada should become the 51st American state, (2) refused to have the approved Vice-president JD Vance as his successor (“but he is very capable”), and (3) qualified Gaza as “demolition site”.
Trump spent much of the afternoon and evening the most watched television broadcast in history. He mainly received cheers when his omnipresent cup was shown on the big screen Caesars Superdome before the match, which he watched with his daughter Ivanka and the commissioner of the NFL Roger Goodell of a suite of 50 yards. He closed his weekend by arousing bad blood with the supporter of Kamala Harris, Taylor Swift, via Truth Social (“Hooded Out of the Stadium”) and ordering his secretary to the Treasury of end The bipartite threat of penny.
After a brief respite overnight, the events centered on Trump continued to rush into a wave of perpetual movement – also known as Monday and Tuesday. Trump has imposed 25% of rights to all steel and aluminum imports, forgiven the former governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, and threatened that “all hell will break out” if Hamas does not publish all Israeli hostages by Saturday at noon. He signed an executive decree which calls for the cessation of all the federal purchases of these flabby paper straws (which, let’s face it, are as boring as the money), and another ordering all federal agencies to cooperate with the Department of efficiency of the Government of Elon Musk to “considerably reduce” the federal workforce. This came a few hours after having held an oval office meeting with King Jordan Abdullah II in which the president reaffirmed, in Reference to Gaza: “We will take it;
In summary: Yes, Trump certainly seems a little busy.
Opinions, of course, vary to find out if it is a good or a kind of busy busy. And for what it is worth, several federal judges have declared themselves hostile to the executive orders of Trump. Regardless, These rapid fuss of attention fodder represent A fundamental ethics of Trump 2.0: frantic action – or at least its constant impression of it – seems a lot. And despite the cervical boost, the turbulence and the contradiction of all this, people seem to love him so far.
In a CBS News / Yougov Poll Released on Sunday, 53% of the 2,175 American adults interviewed said they had approved the work that Trump was doing, a higher part than in his first round. Perhaps more revealing, the respondents of the survey described these first weeks of the mandate of the 78-year-old president as “energetic”, “targeted” and “effective”. They do not necessarily approve of what Trump was energetic, concentrated and effective to do (pardon The authors of January 6, for example) or not (66% said that Trump had not paid enough attention to the drop in prices for goods and services). But Trump has created a sense of action, agitation, disturbances and perhaps even destruction that many voters seem to welcome for the moment. At the very least, there is nothing to sleep in all of this.
“He said he was going to do something, and he does,” said a woman Rampart discussion group Voters from Biden who became Trump conducted in the days who followed Trump’s return to the White House. At this point, the fact of this “something” seems to prevail over the substance. The woman said that she was working in clinical research in a hospital and interacts with people who could lose the subsidies of the National Institutes of Health in Trump and Musk’s Barrage of Cuts; She described a working environment that was thrown into chaos.
“Like, what are we doing?” We have no idea; The CEO has no idea. We are a little confused, “said the woman. “I’m not saying it’s the right decision, the bad decision,” she added. “But it’s really like, Something is happening. He does something.
The rampartThe publisher, Sarah Longwell, who leads the discussion groups, told me that Trump seemed to benefit from the “complete lack of communication from Joe Biden” during his mandate. Longwell said that she had heard voters several times that they had no idea what Biden wanted to do in power or what he was doing. “He created this huge presidential communication vacuum that Trump now fills,” said Longwell.
She added that Biden also presents an example of prudence of the way in which the initial popularity of a president can be ephemeral. Four years ago, at the same time, the voters seemed quite grateful to have someone in the office which was not Constantly on their faces. Biden was considered to be restaurant “normality” after the tumultuous end, dominated by the Covids and violent of Trump’s first mandate. He questioned in the 1960s in a CBS survey in March 2021, was still compared to Franklin D. Roosevelt and appreciated a popularity which would last until the summer of 2021, when Afghanistan went south and that Inflation was heading north.
A characteristic of presidential honeymoons is that the presidents tend to be more beautiful when they act in a way that contrasts with their predecessor, especially when their predecessor was unpopular. Another characteristic of these honeymoon periods: they tend not to last. In other words, Trump should cherish this when he can – or until all hell breaks out and people start to phrase for normality again.