'A chip on our shoulder': Trump's Week 1 actions reward his MAGA base and settle scores

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Trump is already restructuring the federal workforce in dramatic fashion.
57% : And while Trump is committed to controlling the narrative of his presidency by commanding attention at all times, he is already starting to see the challenges of implementing his agenda.
54% : Trump's prized Department of Government Efficiency, which is not an official agency, has yet to really launch.
54% : Dozens of national security officials were sent home from White House jobs this week as Trump seeks to ensure that only loyalists are in his proximity.
49% : "Steve Bannon, who popularized the idea of radically restructuring government -- "deconstructing the administrative state," as he calls it -- said Musk has been focused in the wrong direction in the early days of the administration.
49% : To deconstruct the administrative state and to radically slash government spending, you need something like DOGE in combination with [the Office of Management and Budget]," Bannon said.
45% : "The ally familiar with Trump's transition planning said the evidence so far suggests that Trump and his team believe they have a mandate to enact his full agenda.
42% : In short, Trump is serving his political base and settling old scores with new policies.
41% : If Americans are feeling the sense of "shock and awe" Trump advisers say they hoped to instill, they should not be surprised.
33% : "The fracas forced Trump to weigh in, and he downplayed it as Musk battling "one of the people he happens to hate.
31% : It's informed by the fact that Trump, the second president ever elected to nonconsecutive terms, is not eligible to seek re-election.
16% : When Trump announced his "Stargate" project for attracting private investment to build artificial intelligence infrastructure, Musk attacked the plan, sparking a social media fight with Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI.

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