thependulumswings

Over 100 days of Trump 2.0 have passed into the ether.   How has he done so far in the eyes of the voters who elected him?

Recent polls say his brief second stay on Pennsylvania Ave. has quickly alienated the faithful.  Of course, if you still believe in these paid-for polls, you probably still believe in the Easter Bunny.

It says here that it has been a dizzying flurry of a doozy of an agenda.  He, his staff, and his cabinet came out with guns a blazing on day one.  So much to accomplish, they say, with so little time until the midterms, his opposition says.

Credit where credit is due, America wanted the southern border secured.  Trump assigned Tom Homan that task.  Consider it secured.  Illegal immigration slowed from a river to a dry creek bed in a few weeks.   The mules packed their bags of dirty cash and went home.

Joe Biden should be ashamed of himself.  We digress.

Boys in girls’ sports and bathrooms found themselves unwelcome as well.  Check a much-needed and easy box.

The great media reset is well underway.  Perhaps decades from now, Americans will look back on Trump’s time in office and thank him for exposing what Rush Limbaugh told us was happening decades ago.  Honest reporting is a pillar of our republic.  His press secretary is a heck of a front person.

The left-leaning media’s cover-up of Biden’s decline is a new low.  Their recent reflections on it, finger-pointing, and book writing to get to the high ground is a lower low.   We still have a ways to go.

From here it gets stickier.   Is DOGE important?  Is fair trade (tariffs) important?  Is a big, beautiful bill tackling taxes and forward spending needed?  How about “hell yes, yes, and mostly?”  But each unto themselves is complicated.

But when you take on all three at once, can you confuse Main St and Wall St simultaneously?  How about “hell yes?”  When you know that the variables of “a” minus “b” plus “c” equals “d,” but you have no idea what the numbers behind the variables are, it’s ready, fire, aim.

Wall Street went down.  It anticipates that Main Street will follow.  Will it?  Only the cumulative effect of the tariffs, jobs lost, government streamlining, and taxes combined can tell us.  Does anyone have a Rubik’s Cube?

The DOGE, tariff, and bill collision gets an A for ambition, a C for clarity, and a D for divulgence.   One at a time would have been far more digestible.

The Donald told us that he’d end the Ukraine/Russia war on day one.  Maybe he meant sometime in year one.  Telling Zelenskyy enough is enough is a good step, though.

Enough is enough with the Federal appointed judges coloring way outside the lines.  An example or two is needed and might have the desired effect.

Trump calling Canada the 51st state and posturing that he wants to acquire Greenland only turns off the average low-information voter.

When his son and Steve Bannon postulate that there could be a third Trump term, it gives the left the ability to yell “threat to our democracy.”  We already have enough Chicken Littles in our country, thanks to the state of our education and the Department of Education.

We might be getting rid of said department soon.

Has Trump already gotten rid of the cushion he rode in on?

It’s not as thick as it was in January.