Donald Trump's Honeymoon Is Over
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/donald-trump-honeymoon-pollsDonald Trump’s Honeymoon Is Over
It looks like the president’s Project 2025 agenda, market-rattling tariffs, and odd obsessions—from Greenland to the Gulf—are already turning off Americans.
By Molly Jong-Fast
April 1, 2025
It took Donald Trump a little more than two months to completely squander any kind of postelection goodwill he had. His approval rating has steadily dipped from 47% to 45% to 43%, according to Gallup, as the American people have gotten to actually see what Trump and his team of billionaires had in store for them. That includes diving right into the Project 2025 playbook, the same right-wing blueprint Trump tried distancing himself from on the campaign trail.
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And amid Trump’s steady erosion of support more broadly came the type of chaotic event that made us feel like we’d been transported back to 2017. The Signalgate scandal, as it’s been dubbed, looks like a clear-cut screwup: National Security Adviser Mike Waltz created a Signal group to discuss secret Yemen attack plans and included 17 government officials, such as Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth—oh, and there was Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg. And yet excuses for this major security lapse have involved bashing Goldberg, and have included everything from the pedantic “Nobody was texting war plans, and that’s all I have to say about that” to the suggestion on Fox News that Goldberg somehow “got on somebody’s contact” and then was “sucked into this group.”
While Trump could have picked a fall guy for the scandal, like Waltz, he opted not to. That doesn’t mean Trump didn’t consider it, though, having reportedly asked people, “Should I fire him?” According to The New York Times, Trump “told allies that he was unhappy with the press coverage but that he did not want to be seen as caving to a media swarm.” Though the White House has declared the case closed on Signalgate, the mess has already spread widely. A CBS News–YouGov poll found that “76% said using the app to discuss military plans was not appropriate—including 56% of Republicans.”
During the 2016 election, Trump and the GOP made Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server a cardinal sin. “People have gone to jail for one one hundredth of what—even one one thousandth of what—Hillary Clinton did,” Hegseth said on Fox Business at the time. And Hegseth isn’t alone as a Trump official who once condemned Clinton’s actions but is now downplaying and dismissing Signalgate. Beyond the hypocrisy, what Signalgate provided was a pretty tangible data point to back up the idea that Trumpworld 2.0 is just as bumbling and reckless as Trumpworld 1.0.
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Such erratic behavior isn’t going over well in the markets, with the Dow sliding amid Trump’s latest tariff threats and the S&P 500 on track to have its worst quarter since 2022. The problem with moving fast and breaking things, as the mantra goes in Silicon Valley, is that we’re seeing in real time how things get broken.
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If Mike Waltz is fired, if Elon Musk is kicked out of Washington, if DOGE gets shut down immediately, if the tariffs are cancelled by next week, and if many of the fired federal employees get rehired one way or another ... Chump might still be able to hang on and finish out his 2nd term.
Does anyone think any of those things might really happen? No I don't either. That's why I think he'll be out, either by impeachment (with Senate conviction) or 25th Amendment in less than a year.
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ENOUGH Already, DAMMIT!!!
"Move fast and break things." Oh yeah. Absolutely adorable. 
Well, okay, donald. Go ahead and be reckless, then. You're hellbent on not letting anyone stop you. But you're gonna be sorry you broke all those valuable things you realized WAY too late that you were gonna need rather seriously. And your attempts to spin it as something good and nothing-to-see-here and I-wasn't-involved/I-don't-know-anything-about-it won't work for you anymore.
And it's only been three-or-so months.
The problem is that they've never really thought this through. It's starting to dawn on them how bad it really is, and how much worse it's gonna get. Yeah, we told them but they never listened to US. Now they are finding out.
I believe there will be some cooperation between Ds and Rs to get Chump out, finally and for the good of the country.
