Seventy days after his return to the Oval Office, Donald Trump is finding his second presidential term honeymoon collapsing as the administration officials make embarrassing mistakes, key allies turn on him and more Republicans are publicly balking at some policies.According to a report from Jonatha...

Summary

Seventy days into his second term, Donald Trump faces growing internal turmoil and public backlash. Allies report he’s making late-night angry calls, upset over negative press and policy setbacks.

The “Signalgate” scandal and GOP resistance to new tariffs have shaken his administration. Trump blames National Security Adviser Mike Waltz for a messaging blunder and resents criticism of his deportation efforts.

His attempts to end wars in Gaza and Ukraine have faltered.

Republicans fear economic fallout from his trade policies, raising concerns about recession and inflation.

  • gamer@lemm.ee
    10·
    21 hours ago

    I don’t have the link, but I read somewhere that this was actually part of the Project 2025 plan, to use sockpuppet accounts and bots to drown online discourse and prevent anyone messaging that hurts the movement from picking up steam and going viral. (Althougj the strategy is probably different on platforms they control, like Twitter and maybe Reddit)

    • iridebikes@lemmy.world
      3·
      20 hours ago

      I could certainly see this being something they’re doing. Flooding the zone to give the impression of support. The problem with right wing rhetoric is that it’s very attractive to the uninformed. It’s really really easy to be a racist, for example. It’s much harder to instill empathy.

      I think it’s working. Right as people were finally leaving Twitter during the election season and moving to Lemmy, Blue sky, mastodon, threads, etc. The election was already in full swing. So support on the left was fractured and disconnected from the main spaces where it would reach normal folks. Twitter, Truth Social, and Facebook remained strong and their message was everywhere all the time.

      What do we do to stop it though? Grass roots grow Lemmy into something respectable? By the time it gets popular enough to matter, the right will invade and corrupt it.

        • futatorius@lemm.ee
          2·
          7 hours ago

          That, and also detrumpification. Anyone associated with MAGA banned from elective office and government jobs for life, all their assets seized, and a complete rollback of every executive order, law, pardon and appointment that happened while Trump has been in power.