President Trump Will Not Be as Powerful as He Seems
Donald Trump was a spectacularly weak president during his first term. All signs point to him being spectacularly weak during his second.
President-elect Donald Trump speaks during Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center on December 22, 2024, in Phoenix, Arizona. (Rebecca Noble / Getty Images)
A month before Election Day, I posted this on Facebook:
As the last week’s events around the failure of the Republicans and Donald Trump to shape Congress’s most recent spending bill reveal, I got this prediction pretty much right.
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