Blitz! President Trump returns to familiar strategy that exhausts foes, delights friends

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : "Politics is motion and Donald Trump is a study in motion," Craig Shirley, a Republican consultant who worked on then-Vice President George H.W. Bush's 1988 president, told USA TODAY.
57% : "As chaotic as it's been in the first few weeks, Trump 2.0 came in with a much better understanding of the federal government, and a team dedicated to helping him get his wins, including members of Congress," said Casey Burgat, director of the legislative affairs program at the George Washington University Graduate School of Management.
47% : "I think we're going to win that case," Trump said Thursday in the Oval Office.
46% : "Hours after a catastrophic mid-air collision between a passenger jet and a military aircraft above the nation's capital, Trump entered the White House press briefing room Thursday offering a moment of silence.
43% : Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore, who worked in the first Trump administration, said Trump is doing much of what he said he would during the campaign.
43% : Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., who helped deliver Trump an early win with the passage of the Laken Riley Act, which gives officers more power to detain unauthorized migrants when they're arrested for crimes, said the days of talking about problems are over.
42% : "The first round of polling in the embryonic stages of Trump 2.0 bear this out, with a Quinnipiac University poll of registered voters released Wednesday finding 46% of voters approve of the job Trump is doing versus 43% who disapprove.
37% : Asked later in the Oval Office if he planned to visit the crash area, Trump said: "I have a plan to visit, not the site.
37% : That is within the survey's 3% margin of error, but the same national poll was conducted about a week into his first term in 2017 and it showed Trump holding a 36% approval compared to 44% disapproval.
37% : "So what Donald Trump is doing comports with what the American people want.
29% : Trump fared even better in a poll released Thursday by Emerson College, which showed him carrying a 49% job approval rating versus 41% disapproval, well outside its 3% margin of error.
28% : Trump carries a Republican-controlled Congress that has largely deferred to their party leader on serious questions about executive overreach.
24% : The billionaire governor used his pen Thursday to issue an order blocking those involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol from holding state jobs, and he blasted Trump as someone "unfit to lead during a crisis" such as the D.C. airport accident.

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