DOING REAL STUFF MATTERS
The American people are clamoring for competency and results, not “Cry more!” eye-poking.
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Everything is gold, but this isn’t America’s Golden Age.
DOING REAL STUFF MATTERS
The Trump administration unveiled new decor outside the Oval Office on Wednesday.
Underneath the recently hung gold-framed presidential portraits are black and gold plaques featuring a list of each president’s … accomplishments, I suppose you could call them.
The plaque ‘neath Biden’s autopen portrait calls him the “worst president in history,” while Bill Clinton’s reminds us that his “wife, Hillary, lost the Presidency to President Donald J. Trump!” Obama’s lists the “Unaffordable Care Act,” the Russian invasion of Crimea, and the expansion of the Islamic Caliphate as notable moments of his presidency. Reagan’s concludes with the assertion, “He was a fan of President Donald J. Trump long before President Trump’s Historic run for the White House!”
I don’t mind a good troll job every now and then. In fact, if inflation were 2% and we weren’t on the verge of going to war with Venezuela, I’d probably think this is funny. But is this really the best use of the White House’s time right now? Plastering the president’s Truth Social posts on the West Colonnade?
I’m not trying to be a “Panican,” but given the current outlook for Republicans in the 2026 midterms, Trump realistically has a year to effectuate his policy agenda. Yeah, yeah, we can walk and chew gum at the same time, whatever, but it seems to me like every second available should be spent on doing real sh!t until the GOP loses control of Congress.
The American people are clamoring for competency and results, not “Cry more!” eye-poking.
According to a new Rasmussen poll, only 12% of U.S. likely voters believe Trump has done “too much” of what he promised. Nearly half of Democrats say Trump hasn’t done enough of what he’s promised. What does that tell us? We’re far from voters being fatigued with the supposedly radically aggressive administration portrayed in viral TikTok ICE edits. Au contraire, voters don’t seem to think Trump is doing much of anything.
The problem is especially pronounced among the young voters Trump won over during the 2024 campaign. In a recent appearance on Steve Bannon’s War Room, Mark Mitchell, the head pollster at Rasmussen, explained what the under-30 crowd is looking for.
“They just want brutal order. These people, 49% of them, say Trump hasn’t done enough of what he promised. Only 19% of them say he’s done too much … Three quarters of them think that basically every elected official is using their position for ill-gotten gain. They’re the most likely to want arrests,” he said. “I have all these metrics that Trump just hasn’t delivered.”
If the Boomer test for the presidency was, “Who do you want to get a beer with?” perhaps the Zoomer test is actually the Hillary Clinton 2008 “3 a.m. phone call” ad (though not just referring to foreign policy).
He continues, “Is the government doing enough to stop political violence in America? Only 17% of U.S. likely voters say yes … and this is after Trump sent the National Guard to clean up cities and support ICE.”
Vice President JD Vance invited Mitchell to the White House last month, presumably to help talk some sense into the president. Mitchell warned Trump that voters don’t see him fighting for them, that he hasn’t drained the swamp sufficiently, that he needs to take voters’ worries about affordability seriously, and that he needs to smash the oligarchy. Trump reportedly heard Mitchell’s concerns and then started talking about golf.
Trump’s perceived authenticity and symbolic middle finger to the system were catnip to a 2016 electorate whose leaders spent decades sleepwalking them into endless wars, trust-the-experts policymaking, and offshored manufacturing. He was a symptom of our sclerotic and broken institutions.
Trump and the GOP could actually reform and rebuild those institutions, to be real champions of government order and efficiency. To prioritize innovation and competency.
There was a glimmer of hope that this might happen in the first few months of the administration. Things now seem lethargic, bored, silly. The black and gold Truth Social plaques might not seem like a big deal, but to me they’re indicative of growing disinterest by this administration in effecting real change for the American people.
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