Molly Jong-Fast

1 month ago | vanityfair.com | Molly Jong-Fast

It took Donald Trump a little more than two months to completely squander any kind of postelection goodwill he had. His approval rating has steadily dipped from 47% to 45% to 43%, according to Gallup, as the American people have gotten to actually see what Trump and his team of billionaires had in store for them. That includes diving right into the Project 2025 playbook, the same right-wing blueprint Trump tried distancing himself from on the campaign trail.

1 month ago | vanityfair.fr | Molly Jong-Fast

En choisissant de voter une résolution de Trump pour éviter le shutdown, Chuck Schumer, chef du groupe démocrate au Sénat a suscité l'incompréhension de beaucoup de démocrates. Confronté à la menace d'un blocage généralisé des salaires des fonctionnaires et des budgets des agences fédérales, le chef de l'opposition au sénat a donc plié.

1 month ago | vanityfair.com | Molly Jong-Fast

After getting raked over the coals by members of his own party, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer defended himself on Sunday, arguing that allowing a government shutdown to take place by not passing the GOP’s spending bill “would be 10 or 20 times worse” than backing it. He may have a point.

1 month ago | vanityfair.com | Molly Jong-Fast

Donald Trump has been in office for only about two months, but his administration is on a supercharged march to exert complete control over both the media and academia. So much of this is right out of Project 2025, which involves concentrating executive power while castrating the judicial and legislative branches. I predicted last month that the latter two might be something of a bulwark, as they were last time, against Trump’s worst instincts.

2 months ago | vanityfair.com | Molly Jong-Fast

Right after Donald Trump was elected for the second time, he was the most popular he’d ever been. According to The Economist, “his net favorability was in positive territory for the first time ever.”It was a strange moment: In January 2025, the guy who had been , indicted four times, and convicted on 34 felony counts was as popular as he’d ever been and, unlike in 2016, he actually won the popular vote. Trump is famous for defying political gravity, but even for him, this was unprecedented.