Month One of Donald Trump's "Golden Age"

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

76% : Musk tweeted, "I love @realDonaldTrump as much as a straight man can love another man." On the way back to Washington from the Super Bowl, Trump ordered the Treasury -- in a post on Truth Social -- to stop minting new pennies.
73% : Trump announced that the spirit of the country was up forty-nine per cent.
71% : It was January 30th, and Trump was about to hold his first press conference as President.
64% : "Trump may have saved my career," a friend, who is a federal employee, texted me.
63% : On Presidents' Day weekend, the crowd at the Daytona 500 cheered as Trump took a lap of the speedway in his motorcade.
59% : Now Trump wanted him to meet the press.
56% : It almost didn't matter that it wasn't true -- even supporters whose own lives had not materially improved in the way they'd hoped since Trump took office said that they loved what it all stood for.
55% : "It's like segregation has ended.
55% : Trump was in the Oval Office with Ishiba when a reporter asked how he felt about it.
55% : At the one-month mark of his Presidency, Trump hosted a Black History Month event in the East Room.
54% : Trump felt that the spirit of the country was "probably the hardest thing to get back."
53% : Everyone filed out as the Marine Corps band played "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." On the campaign trail, Trump said that he would "save a fortune for our country" by putting a stop to unnecessary spending.
53% : On the first day of his term, Trump had ended remote work for the entire federal government; the morning he signed the straw order, cars sat in standstill traffic all the way across the bridge to Navy Yard, which was short five thousand parking spaces.
52% : On February 11th, Musk joined Trump in the Oval Office.
51% : "I'm getting really tired of winning," a consultant said to me the weekend after Trump was sworn in.
50% : " On February 6th, after an all-night vigil in the Senate, Democrats failed to prevent Russell Vought from being confirmed as the director of the Office of Management and Budget, which administers federal spending.
50% : The day before, Trump had written online, in reference to himself, "LONG LIVE THE KING!"
48% : (Musk spent much of the first weeks of the transition at Trump's Palm Beach club; when he left, Trump wrote, on Truth Social, "Where are you?
47% : On February 7th, I went to the White House, where Trump was hosting Shigeru Ishiba, the Japanese Prime Minister.
46% : On February 4th, Trump announced that the U.S. would take a "long-term ownership position" in Gaza, which he called the "Riviera of the Middle East."
45% : States were launching constant legal challenges against Trump's actions, hoping to win nationwide injunctions.
43% : "Well, it doesn't," Trump said.
42% : An R.N.C. delegate in Pennsylvania, whom I'd met early in the campaign, told me that he hadn't been tracking the Presidency too closely, but he knew that Trump was going to release the Kennedy-assassination files, and that was enough.
41% : " Trump and Ishiba began their press conference, and a reporter asked, "Is there anything you've told Elon Musk he cannot touch?"
40% : Meanwhile, teachers and federal workers who had supported Trump posted on TikTok and Facebook Live in distress -- U.S.D.A. food inspectors and National Park Service staffers, among others, hadn't realized how deep the cuts would be.
40% : Trump turned to the boy.
33% : "I can't imagine people with 20/20 vision not seeing what's happening up there," Trump said.
29% : Trump was displeased; Bannon left the White House soon after.
27% : Trump replied, "We haven't discussed that much. . . .
24% : In the mostly empty federal plaza, a woman yelled, "Shame!" A half mile or so down the road, at the White House, Trump was in the East Room, sitting at a wooden desk, with rows of school-age girls and coaches standing behind him.
24% : Vought had previously led Project 2025, the staffing and policy program that Trump and his allies denied association with during the campaign.
24% : On February 10th, Trump was in the Oval Office getting rid of paper straws.
23% : Trump had promised to retake the Panama Canal and to possibly acquire Greenland, imposed a barrage of tariffs, fired more than a dozen inspectors general and federal prosecutors, suggested shutting down FEMA, halted global land-mine-clearance programs, and ordered migrants to Guantánamo Bay.
23% : Trump tried to nudge him toward some actual news items.
21% : Democratic congressmen had just sent letters to Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, expressing outrage that DOGE engineers had access to Treasury payment systems, which contain personal information such as Social Security numbers.
18% : Trump often raised the issue himself.
10% : Donald Trump had been President for two weeks, and Washington was flailing to respond to the new Administration's tactics, which were to "flood the zone with shit," as Steve Bannon once put it.

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