One of the biggest legitimate criticisms of Trump’s first administration — and even the interim period after the 2020 election was *allegedly* stolen from him — is that he was notoriously undisciplined in his approach to governing, often engaging in petty squabbles with members of the legacy media and political opposition (one and the same).
While often entertaining, these spectacles clearly distracted from the focused implementation of his agenda.
So far, Trump 2.0 is almost pure action, no distraction.
I don’t know what’s happened to him, but it’s probably a combination of a strong set of advisors around him — he seems to have learned his lesson from the first go-around not to let snakes like John Bolton slither into his orbit — along with whatever happened inside of him when a bullet came within millimeters of blowing his skull apart on national television.
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Goading Trump into launching 2 a.m. tweet sprees and then smearing him as “unserious” or whatever has long been a pillar of the opposition’s strategy.
Lately, the legacy media, using whatever vestiges of propagandistic muscle it has left, has been, in tandem with Democrats as usual, pushing the Elon Musk “co-president” line in a clear bid to try to elicit outrage from Trump and drive a wedge between the two men.
Here is Rep. Maxine Waters, arguably the dumbest and most corrupt member of Congress simultaneously, trying to spit out the “co-president” talking point one of her staffers programmed into her.
Maxine Waters: Elon Musk is basically a government gangster who is acting as a co-president of the United States of America . He is wreaking havoc on this country. pic.twitter.com/tr6qXADCPq
— Ron Smith (@Ronxyz00) February 7, 2025
And more of the same from Elizabeth Warren with the MSNBC race lady:
“We’ve got Donald Trump and his co-president Elon Musk, and they’re just running a wrecking ball through it.”
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) February 6, 2025
America, is this exactly what you voted for?pic.twitter.com/6QcecjP63J
“Elon Musk Is President,” blares the headline from the multinational trans-Atlantic globalist mouthpiece The Atlantic.
Via The Atlantic (emphasis added):
He did not receive a single vote. He did not get confirmed. He does not receive a government paycheck.
The world’s richest man has declared war on the federal government and, in a matter of days, has moved to slash its size and reach, while gaining access to some of its most sensitive secrets. He has shaped the public discourse by wielding the powerful social-media site he controls and has threatened to use his fortune to bankroll electoral challenges to anyone who opposes him…
At times working from the White House campus, Musk plainly enjoys his position as the president’s most influential adviser. Trump famously turns on aides who he believes eclipse him. But by his own account, he remains enamored of Musk.
When they’re all parroting the exact same line, that’s when you know this is a coordinated PR strategy.
It’s childish and lame. However, if this were 2017 and not 2025, it just might have worked to get under Trump’s skin and undermine the unprecedented work that DOGE is doing to snuff out the rampant waste, fraud, and abuse in government.
Trump hasn’t taken the bait.
Something has clearly changed.
If you pop over to Trump's TruthSocial profile, his posts are almost entirely comprised of substantive, policy-based announcements about governmental goings-on and links to substantive news articles.
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As entertaining as his roasting Rosie O’Donnell is, he appears exponentially more disciplined this time around, which on balance is probably great for his approval ratings and definitely for executing the agenda that the American people put him in office to see through.
It’s, frankly, very impressive.
