Sometimes, I think that millions of Americans - tens of millions, even - who can be counted as Trump supporters know damn well that he is an incompetent moron. That he had zero qualifications for the office before he was elected, and that he has more than proven his lack of qualifications during both terms of his presidency. Especially during this second term, where he got rid of the members of his administration who had some qualifications and also put the Constitution ahead of one man's naked and raw ambitions for more power. Having surrounded himself with Yes men and women, Trump is strictly getting his way, running things as he sees fit.
Not surprisingly, it has been a complete and utter disaster.
Yet even while headlines dominate with his allegedly taking approval ratings - they currently are in the upper thirties to lower forties, depending on which poll you look at - he retains the support from that stubborn group of loyal Trump followers, his Mindless MAGA Moron cult following.
Again, I personally suspect that a decent number of them actually know that he has been a disaster, that he has not been keeping his over-the-top campaign promises, and that the country is now far worse off under President Trump than it ever was without President Trump. However, there is something missing with them. Perhaps it is objectivity, or perhaps their anger is driving them. Perhaps it is as simple as immaturity, an inability to admit that they were wrong about this guy. That he is not the almost God-like figure whom their cult beliefs turned him into.
Why has this second term been such a horror show for the country?
Simply put, having surrounded himself with ambitious losers much like himself, Trump gets whatever he wants. And it has been to the detriment of the country. Nobody is there now to rein him in, to tell him no, you can't do that even once in a while.
So he keeps grabbing more and more power, weakening the Constitution and the traditional balance of powers that kept Washington going. And he keeps making a point of antagonizing people, both domestically and around the world.
The results have been predictable. The country is more divided than ever before. Now, millions of Americans are waking up to the fact that yes, Trump does seem to have dictatorial ambitions. That is his governing style, and it flies in the face of Constitutional restraint that all previous presidents, to varying degrees, have governed with. Even if you did not like other recent presidents, regardless of the party, there always was at least some measure of restraint, some nod to traditions of the past regarding the presidency and governance in general. But that has been completely absent with Trump.
More Americans have lost faith in the direction that the country is going in than we have seen in recent years. And the rest of the world also has less faith and trust in the United States than it ever has before, as well, which has added to that sinking feeling that more and more Americans are getting. That sense that something had gone deeply, terribly wrong.
To be clear, Trump has never been a pillar of stability or a model of reliability and truth. In fact, he is a con artist, and literally probably the most documented liar in recorded human history. This is a man who was born into enormous privilege and never had to struggle a single day in his life. How people believed the mythology of Trump as somehow this genius, this self-made man who built an empire and then believed his promises to do the same for the country that he did for his business empire is beyond me. Remember, thus guy declared bankruptcy six times. He even somehow ran a casino into the ground, despite that being as sure a thing in the business world as you are pretty much apt to get. Sure enough, it seems that he is trying to do for the country what he did for his own empire. Earlier this year, Trump's own Treasury Department declared the United States insolvent, which should have dominated headlines and discredit his entire presidency. But since he clearly believes in censorship - another warning sign that he is every bit the dictator that his detractors warned all of us about, it registered as barely a blip on the news radar screen for Americans.
How else has Trump's presidency been disastrous?
For starters, he has turned much of the world against us. Our allies look at us with suspicion now, and for good reason. After all, Trump imposed tariffs across the board, with very few exceptions, to every country in the world. Even an island populated with penguins was not exempt, and so neither was a single country who were traditional allies. That did not produce good feelings or trust. Neither did his criticisms of fellow NATO members or his seeming reluctance to continue to support Ukraine in their war against Russia. Add to that Trump's carte blanche support of Israel's war on Gaza, and then Trump's own undeclared war with Iran, which he neither sough Congressional approval or even bothered to notify allies of, and you start to really get the sense that their distrust in the United States currently is not misplaced. Add to that his seeming musings about possibly taking over Greenland militarily, or his other military threats (Colombia, Panama, Cuba, Gaza, and continually and relentlessly referring to Canada as the 51st state), and yeah, it becomes easy to understand why much of the world has come to distrust and possible even despise what the United States has allowed itself to become under Trump.
Then there are the other unsavory aspects of his presidency. Let's start with the broken promises. No, he did not take care of inflation, as promised. Now he claims to love inflation, but he campaigned on the idea that the price of gas and groceries would go down under him, and quickly, for that matter. Inflation still is out of control. And as far as gas goes, his war with Iran made the global price of gas go up rather dramatically. We are all still waiting for the economy to improve as this second Trump presidency approaches two years in.
He never ended the war in Ukraine, which he promised as a candidate in 2024. Nor did he keep us out of foreign wars. He invaded Venezuela and started this stupid war with Iran that, if anything, has undermined American authority in every possible way. Plus, he keeps threatening other country, as well, as mentioned earlier.
Let's not forget that he never released the Epstein Files, which he promised to do. In fact, he has gone to such extraordinary lengths not to release the Epstein Files that you cannot help but wonder if he has something that he very much wants to remain hidden away from public view. In short, he looks like one of those sick elites who has always abuses his privileges over others. The entire Trump White House seems complicit in this cover-up, which makes Watergate look like innocent child's play by way of comparison, frankly.
Of course, that also is part of the problem. Trump hardly seems to care if he is hiding his criminality or not. This administration is engaging in blatantly corrupt ways, and it hardly seems to matter. Having basically destroyed the balance of power, So nobody is keeping a check on his power. In fact, the Republican-led Congress, as well as the ultraconservative Supreme Court, seems to be bending over backwards to protect the criminal nature of this Trump presidency.
Finally, on top of all of that, Trump sure appears to be far more focused on his insanely expensive vanity projects than on the well-being of Americans. He even suggested as much himself by admitting that the economic difficulties - or affordability - does not cross his mind. In fact, he claims that it is all a "Democratic hoax." That, despite life really feeling a whole lot less affordable for the vast majority of Americans than it ever has been before. But Trump has demolished the East Wing of the White House - again, without Congressional approval - and also destroyed the Rose Garden. He had that stupid, decadent MMA fighting event on the White House lawn, or at least what used to be the White House lawn, as it too has largely been destroyed. He destroyed the reflecting pool, and now has used that as a means of grabbing still more dictatorial powers. Ever the tyrant.
So yeah, this presidency has been an absolute disaster.
But it has not exactly come as a surprise.
In fact, this is what many people warned about. But tens of millions of Americans laughed off all of those warnings and voted for this corrupt fucking moron anyway.
Now, we are all paying the price. And it is unbearably high.
Chronicle of a Disaster Foretold Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s “Regime Change” is packed with news about the Trump White House that will stay news. By David Remnick, June 23, 2026:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/07/06/chronicle-of-a-disaster-foretold?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=app.dashsocial.com/newyorkermag/library/media/688313168
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