Trump's Variety Show Papered Over What He's Really Done

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

84% : Trump acknowledged in his speech that there "may be a little bit of an adjustment period," but instructed farmers to "have a lot of fun" and reassured them that "I love you.
49% : He cited at length, and we do mean at length, debunked statistics insinuating that tens of millions of dead people, some of them more than 200 years old, were getting Social Security payments.
47% : There's no denying that Trump is doing a lot.
45% : The country is facing new inflationary pressures, and Republicans' signature legislative effort is to renew trillions in tax cuts along with new tax cuts -- on tips, Social Security payments, and overtime.
45% : And that's before the tariffs, a strategy on which Trump has only begun to cook.
41% : But on the other major issue where Trump had a mandate for change -- getting costs under control -- things are a little more worrisome.
38% : He's begun and plans to continue mass layoffs of federal workers -- including at places like the Social Security Administration, which is responsible for both policing the waste, fraud, and abuse he despises as well as sending out checks.
38% : While Trump opened the door in his speech to kissing and making up with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, he nevertheless reiterated falsehoods about how America has outspent Europe by hundreds of billions of dollars in support for Ukraine and how he would finally bring peace.
37% : Trump both campaigned on and devoted heavy administration resources from the start to shutting down the Southern border.
36% : That was something Trump had a mandate to change, and can say he has changed.
34% : Trump and Musk are shutting down agencies and programs that Congress has funded but which they don't like, which not only violates law requiring the disbursement of such funds but could have dramatic consequences for the lives of people both at home and abroad.
34% : " Outside of tariffs, internationally, Trump has begun to undo the post-World War II American foreign policy that has guaranteed the security of Europe by thwarting Russian aggression.
27% : Musk was at the speech -- no chance he would miss it -- as Trump delivered a list of the "appalling waste" he found.
20% : (In his brief mention of eggs in the speech, Trump blamed this on Joe Biden.)
16% : Though the number of encounters had been falling since the Biden administration abruptly shifted course last summer, Trump did bring the monthly number to its lowest level in decades in February.

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