There are two clear and clear things that happen today in American politics that initially seems to be blush in direct conflict, President Donald Trump has had the best six months of a president of a recent memory, and he loses support in the polls.
How can this be like?
The way to reconcile the characteristic successes of Trump with his decrease in approval is to even understand that the president has spent an enormous amount of political capital, today sacrificed support, hoping for good results tomorrow.
The performance of the Trump government is really breathtaking when they are taken as a whole, starting with its central campaign blade, to close the southern border.
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Trump was too successful on the border for his own political interest in a funny way. If he had now cut the number of entries in two, it would still have been a positive story for the president, but he brought it to zero, so the issue is almost disappeared and forgotten, and nobody gets credit for it.
Then we have passed on the passage of the ‘large, beautiful account, the largest tax reduction in history full of large political winners such as no tax on overtime and tips, and by a small gop majority in the congress.
While that was going on, Trump also attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities, she damaged them heavily and put the weapon program of our geopolitical enemy in a daring and perfectly executed mission.
Donald Trump has also longed for higher rates for his decades to strengthen American jobs and production, and after a complete panic of markets and experts on “Liberation Day”, in April the economy is now buzzing, largely free of inflation.
Last but not least, Trump, via his dissolution package, NPR and PBS have destined, something that has been the big white whale of many conservative for a year. They said it couldn’t be done, but Trump did it.
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The scope, scale and speed of Trump’s triumphs are the good news, but they are always the reason why his poll can become a bit jumpy, which we have seen in recent weeks.
According to the real clear political average of polls, Trump has achieved around 3.5 points since 7 July – not a drop of a cliff, but not nothing either. It is mainly due to how busy he has been.
5 important performances were mentioned above. There are certainly many voters who love all five, but there are also voters who love 3 or 4, but not the others, and in approval the things that people don’t like are louder than things they do.
Two weeks ago on a trip to Texas, I reported on these warning signals, especially around the deportations of illegal aliens without any other criminal record that many Americans make, including some Trump supporters, failed.
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There is also an insulation wing of the Maga movement that hates the Iran strike, and although the nasty warnings of the Second World War have been warned as a cap -gun in a hard rain, which has still gone out the figures.
Similarly, there are still numerous individuals and industries that are not very ratesEven if the economic air has not fallen.
The point here, as Abe Lincoln once said, is that you cannot please all people all the time, and if you do as much as Trump, you will certainly be maintained many people.
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The real bet that the Trump administration makes is not on the short-term popularity of one of the top performance, but rather that they will have made the lives of Americans better in a year.
Donald Trump, even with only one term this time, strives to leave our nation a completely different place in 2029 than he found it in 2025. To do this requires a total attack on institutions of the deep state, towards the academic world, towards the media.
President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he leaves the White House, Tuesday, July 15, 2025, in Washington, while press secretary of the White House Karoline Leavitt is watching. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Trump cannot poke as much political bears as he is without catching a few flesh wounds from the claws, but there is no sign of an imminent collapse that could thwart his overall efforts.
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For six months I argued that Trump had all the runway he needed to put his plans in action. That was true, and he got many planes in the air, but the runway can now shorten.
Now is the only thing that remains to assess the results of the Trumpian whirlwind of the past six months and to find out if this has been well spent.
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