Don’t call it a honeymoon. Incoming President Trump’s first 100 days (his second first 100 days) are guaranteed to be filled with rancor, chaos, finger-pointing, and apocalyptic pronouncements daily from political enemies, punctuated by the occasional self-immolation of a subordinate . . . that is, the usual.
But that doesn’t mean he and the Republican-controlled Congress won’t get points on the board in the early months, occasionally with the help of Democrats.
Yes, the candidate whom Democrats portrayed as an existential threat to the republic is seeing initial support on certain fronts from members of the opposition party. In that incipient cohort, expect to see the name John Fetterman a lot in 2025. The hulking Pennsylvanian last weekend became the first sitting Democratic senator to visit Mar-a-Lago since the election, eliciting praise from his host. As James Lynch reports,