Posted on 11/24/2024 10:56:12 AM PST by Ken H
To the journalists who have studied Donald Trump longest, the second transition looks a whole lot different from eight years ago.
Donald Trump — unbridled and emboldened, his control of the Republican Party all but complete, canny about the mechanics of government in a way he was not eight years back when his first election was such a shock — is headed again to the White House. But how exactly might this tour differ from the last tumultuous term?
To get a better sense of what is to come — in the Senate confirmation hearings for his controversial Cabinet picks, his first 100 days and beyond — I convened a quartet of POLITICO colleagues who’ve watched and covered Trump from the get-go: Anita Kumar, Eli Stokols, Kyle Cheney and Meridith McGraw.
Their composite take: Trump is Trump, always has been, always will be — fractious, breakneck, unscripted — but after Jan. 6, two failed assassination attempts and an array of prosecutions (and convictions) didn’t stop him from getting reelected by a larger margin than the first time he won, he has, they say, a different sort of confidence and nerve. The GOP establishment is no longer so much trying to control him as he is testing the absolute limits of its willingness and ability to stand up to him.
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Trump has been through hell and back, tell me ANYONE that can survive the crap he has had to deal with for 10 years and is still standing..someone tried to kill him TWICE and he’s still smiling..he’s happy to be alive, and he’s gonna kick some major ass in the white house this time around
We may not get 100%, but we're going to get a lot more than when Trump decided after the first win to play nice-nice.
For now, our main enemies are within the party, not outside; we can deal with the Dems once we get our own troops in order.
It’s the McDonalds food that does gives him his edge. :^)
Seriously, he clearly has had a strict daily workout regimen for decades.
Yea. He’s changed. He’s going to be a lot better at being a politician. He’s just getting started.
He even survived Covid!
‘He’s Still Standing and Everyone Else Is Exhausted’
“This can’t be true. Only a few weeks ago we were being told he was too tired to do events, showing serious signs of dementia, unable to speak coherently. In contrast we were told how energy Kamala was, how she was able to hold three rallies in a week. Were we being misled?”
We were constantly propagandized that Kamala the Ho was the second coming of Jesus with a sex change.
Trump’s continuing success leaves the Demonicrats and the DeepStaters with very limited and violent options to stop him.
BTW, these are the people who advocate for—and attack any opponents of—butchering children of the womb.
Trump wants to win, and will do anything within the game to do that.
You make him lose by cheating and he will come at you 10 times as hard.
You don’t survive in NYC without being like that.
They threw everything they could at him but he eats that energy and turns it around on them.
That’s why he dooesn’t slow down or stop. Not even for bullets.
I don't know if your seriously serious or kidding, but that certainly isn't what he says about himself, as golfing is all he claims to do as far as physical activity.
I hope that some day there will be a book, to explain it all.
My own belief is that Trump was courted by both Republicans and Democrats to run in 2016 - this would be what we call the Uniparty. The ‘Rats were under the control of Hillary Clinton and there was no way to stop her. The Pubbies offered a stable of losers selected to anoint her.
The problem is that Queen H would have pressed the button. The ‘Rats even knew this, so they agreed to Trump riding that escalator.
His Presidency was controlled and his ejection assured. Now, we know why - and it is Hillary’s Ukraine, with work she started in NATO expansion as Secretary of State. She wasn’t there to bake cookies.
I got a big kick out of this article. And Bill Maher’s comments about giving Trump a chance and “let’s see what the disruptors can do”.
The left can honestly say they left it all on the field - every dirty trick, every avenue of attack, every lie and lawfare - yet Trump prevailed and won with a Yuge Mandate!
Haven’t felt as good in 4 years!
McD and diet coke hits the spot sometimes. $5.00 McDouble with fries, chicken nuggets and drink is a pretty good deal.
Everyone hates the guy who gets up at 4:00am to do pushups followed by a five mile run.
So he would not talk about it.
But you do not stay in that good a shape for his age without spending at least an hour a day doing serious movement.
In contrast we were told how energy Kamala was, how she was able to hold three rallies in a week. Were we being misled?
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In the final days Trump was holding three rallies PER DAY.
And without the word salads.
Where’s the picture of Nancy Pelosi all sad? Acting, but still...
To get a better sense of what is to come
The Senate and Congress both need a cleaning out of the trash problem makers time to start exposing the bad ones for what their worth.
So far it’s been operated by the good old boy club crooks shysters.
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