By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-24 19:01:40 | Updated at 2024-11-26 02:00:26
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‘He’s Still Standing and Everyone Else Is Exhausted’: Our Insiders on How Trump Has Changed
Politico ^ | 11/22/2024 | Michael Kruse
Posted on 11/24/2024 10:56:12 AM PST by Ken H
To the journalists who have studied Donald Trump longest, the second transition looks a whole lot different from eight years ago.
Donald Trump — unbridled and emboldened, his control of the Republican Party all but complete, canny about the mechanics of government in a way he was not eight years back when his first election was such a shock — is headed again to the White House. But how exactly might this tour differ from the last tumultuous term?
To get a better sense of what is to come — in the Senate confirmation hearings for his controversial Cabinet picks, his first 100 days and beyond — I convened a quartet of POLITICO colleagues who’ve watched and covered Trump from the get-go: Anita Kumar, Eli Stokols, Kyle Cheney and Meridith McGraw.
Their composite take: Trump is Trump, always has been, always will be — fractious, breakneck, unscripted — but after Jan. 6, two failed assassination attempts and an array of prosecutions (and convictions) didn’t stop him from getting reelected by a larger margin than the first time he won, he has, they say, a different sort of confidence and nerve. The GOP establishment is no longer so much trying to control him as he is testing the absolute limits of its willingness and ability to stand up to him.
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1 posted on 11/24/2024 10:56:12 AM PST by Ken H
To: Ken H
2 posted on 11/24/2024 10:57:10 AM PST by Ken H (Trump 2024)
To: Ken H
Trump has been through hell and back, tell me ANYONE that can survive the crap he has had to deal with for 10 years and is still standing..someone tried to kill him TWICE and he’s still smiling..he’s happy to be alive, and he’s gonna kick some major ass in the white house this time around
To: Ken H
he is testing the absolute limits of its willingness and ability to stand up to him
We may not get 100%, but we're going to get a lot more than when Trump decided after the first win to play nice-nice.
For now, our main enemies are within the party, not outside; we can deal with the Dems once we get our own troops in order.
4 posted on 11/24/2024 10:59:46 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: Ken H
It’s the McDonalds food that does gives him his edge. :^)
Seriously, he clearly has had a strict daily workout regimen for decades.
5 posted on 11/24/2024 10:59:49 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: Ken H
Yea. He’s changed. He’s going to be a lot better at being a politician. He’s just getting started.
6 posted on 11/24/2024 11:00:15 AM PST by calljack (Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
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