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Majority Agrees: Trump 2.0 Is a Failure

January 16, 2026 Buck Banks

58%

Public opinion on nearly every aspect of President Trump’s first year back in the White House is negative, a new CNN poll finds, with a majority of Americans saying Trump is focused on the wrong priorities and doing too little to address cost of living. A majority, 58%, calls the first year of Trump’s term a failure.

Oh Vanity, Thy Name Is Susie!

December 16, 2025 Buck Banks

Vanity Fair is a magazine that concerns itself mainly with styles,
Its pages abound with celebs sporting collagen lips and botox smiles.
But once in a while a Vanity Fair interviewer
Gets candid quotes from one who should know better,
And this time the bean-spiller was Trump’s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.

DeSantis Impersonates Trump

March 31, 2022 Buck Banks

“As DeSantis spoke, he looked like a man who had been mimicking Donald Trump’s speeches in front of the mirror. He performed a series of hand thrusts, in which he drew his thumbs together until they were almost touching, then jerked them apart in quick horizontal motions, as if he were playing an invisible accordion. After five such accordion pulls, he swung his right hand, thumb pointing up, in a semi-circular motion back inward to the center. DeSantis tweeted out the clip, and any MAGA fan watching, even without the sound on, would have grasped the gist just through the eerie physical impersonation.”

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Majority Agrees: Trump 2.0 Is a Failure

58%

Oh Vanity, Thy Name Is Susie!

DeSantis Impersonates Trump

— Jonathan Chait

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

— Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

“Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day. And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.”

— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by The Atlantic, speaking to college students.

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

Numerati

+175,000

“The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.

$4,600

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30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%