WASHINGTON – At the beginning of the week, President Donald Trump warned that the United States will resume the Panama Canal or “something very powerful will happen.”
At the end of the week, he announced that he was killing a previous mandate for the Government to buy paper straws, the environmentally friendly drink utensil that dissolves “disgustingly” in his mouth, wrote in his social media site.
The two pronouncements reserved a frantic period of seven days in which Trump also became the head of the Kennedy center for the performing arts with a creative influence on the performances, signed an order that prohibits the transgender athletes in women’s sports and cheered Elon Musk while an engineers stood out in federal agencies to reduce staff and programs with the aim of reducing the government.
The actions are reaching such a vertiginous rhythm that it can be difficult to track what Trump has done and what has changed and undone.
At a press conference on Tuesday, Trump said he would send Gaza to US troops, if necessary, to stabilize the bombed territory. He retreated two days later in a publication on social networks.
The president imposed 25% tariffs on imports of two American allies, Canada and Mexico on Saturday, February 1. Two days later, he stopped the tariffs for a full month.
A 25 -year -old personnel member who works with Musk resigned on Thursday after being found that he made racist comments online and was releasing the next day.
The Denali, or rather, Mount McKinley-Size of executive orders that sprouted from the White House cover so many government and cultural fronts that disoriented the Democrats seem insecure of how to defend themselves.
Last month, the Senate Democrats had planned a press conference dedicated to Trump’s general forgives of those who participated in the riots of January 6, 2021 at the United States Capitol. But they rubbed that it focuses on a new outrage: a freezing of billion dollars in federal expenses.
“We are discovering it,” said Jane Kleeb, president of the Democratic Party of Nebraska and vice president of the National Democratic Committee, in an interview. “We still don’t have the perfect plan.”
A strategy at the beginning of Trump’s first mandate was “to flood the area with S —“, such as Steve Bannon, the former Trump White House strategist, memorably described the efforts to maintain out of balance media.
But the speed at which Trump is moving this time makes the phrase seem picturesque. Trump’s allies and followers have adopted a different term: “shock and astonishment.” In fact, a NBC news review shows that Trump signed more executive orders in 10 days than any of his recent predecessors had signed in his first 100 days.
The 47th President, Trump, has left the 45th president, Trump, sucking the wind.
“He [Trump] They are fulfilling each campaign promise at a record rate, even when the Democrats continue to try to die in the hills, the American people do not support them, for example, Usaid [the U.S. Agency for International Development] Financing to export a progressive social agenda out of contact with Main Street America, ”said Peter Navarro, the main counselor of the Administration for Commerce and the manufacture of NBC News.
Trump’s agenda resistance largely comes from two places: elected Democratic officials who are fighting for public opinion and lawyers fighting Trump in court. At this point, lawyers are having much more success.
On Friday, a federal judge stopped a deadline for the Trump administration to reduce the USAID to a few hundred workers, compared to 5,000.
Meanwhile, a group of 19 General Democratic prosecutors filed a law .
A federal judge issued a ruling on Saturday that temporarily prevents the Musk team from getting access to the data. The judge, Paul Engelmeyer, cited the risk “of the dissemination of confidential and confidential information and the greatest risk that the systems in question are more vulnerable than before hacking.”
New Jersey Attorney, Matthew Pathin, whose state was among the plaintiffs, told NBC News: “There is much talk that President Trump is flooding the area. That is a beautiful phrase to commit a lot of illegal acts at the same time. “
Pathin said he and his colleagues carefully prepared for Trump’s return to charge. They studied their speeches, as well as the Government Plan that some of their past and present were written in a document called “Project 2025”.
Trump Redux, on the contrary, seems to have left the democratic legislators shocked, amazed and largely ineffective in their countermears.
“Many administrations would measure things based on the first 100 days,” said Tim Murtauch, a former Trump campaign spokesman. “This administration put points on the scoreboard in the first 100 minutes.”
“Democrats simply have not been able to keep up,” he added. “On Friday, Democrats will fight Tuesday’s battle.”
Senator Chuck Schumer in New York, the 74 -year -old democratic leader of the body, directed a protest against Musk in the Treasure Department on Tuesday.
“We will win,” he and his Democratic colleagues sang.
The presenters of an night interview program ridiculed the event, transmitting images of Schumer together with the representative Maxine Waters, a 86 -year -old California Democrat, when the 77 -year -old representative, to Green from Texas, stirred his cane in the air.
“We need a real strategy that focuses more on talking with everyday voters that we lost, in simple and clear terms, and provide some clarity about what we defend, not only what we oppose,” said Chris Kofinis, a Democratic strategist. “We will not begin to escape from this painful political desert unless we stop repeating the mistakes that led us to this damn disaster.”
A common calculation error of newly elected presidents is the assumption that they have a popular mandate. After winning re -election in 2004, George W. Bush looked in vain to renew the social security system.
“I got capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it,” Bush said after defeating Democrat John Kerry. His proposal failed.
Trump said his victory last year was a “massive” mandate, although his margin of popular vote on Democrat Kamala Harris was only 1.5 percentage points. (On the contrary, Joe Biden won the popular vote on Trump in 4.5 percentage points in 2020).
Democrats believe that as voters learn more about the expenses of expenses produced by Musk, they will go back and return to a president who has misunderstood the meaning of their victory.
“There has been an overreach when trying to stop the payments in which common Americans trust,” said representative Rot Khanna, D., California, about Trump. “It has almost been a reminder for voters that there are things about the government they like, such as their Social Security, Medicaid and financing for schools in the neighborhoods of the working class.”
Congress Democrats also believe they have leverage on Trump that can derail their plans. Since Republicans have a thin majority in the chamber, they need democratic votes to avoid a possible closure of the government next month. Last week, the camera’s budget negotiations stagnated.
“No Democrat will give a vote until there is an Ironclad agreement that our assignments to help people will spend,” Khanna said.
