Republicans are fast-forwarding through the upcoming month by referring to newly elected president Donald Trump as the leader before his move from President Joe Biden is complete.
Democrats are upset by Biden’s fading work, but Trump’s first ascendancy in power has also led to other social risks.
Liberals, including top congressional authority, have urged Biden to use his political power, regarding everything from immigration to student loan debt compassion, while he still has it. Otherwise, Biden has ceded the limelight to Trump as the president-elect is greeted with more enthusiasm and open-mindedness than 2016 amid a property market wave, being named Time’s Person of the Year, and high-level discussions with foreign officials.
For Democrats, quite as Democrat strategist Jim Manley, a long-term secretary to the later Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Trump ignoring another social rule, this time that there should only be one leader at a time, should hardly come as a surprise.
” The real leader has mostly been , generally Marie for decades, providing , little to no command, while Trump is conducting foreign legislation from his team of outcasts and grifters down in Florida”, Manley told the Washington Examiner. ” ]Biden ] and his team allowed Trump to walk all over them, and as of right now, they , are  , staggering into the inauguration in January with little to no juice”.
Aside from Washington, D. C., and outside of the Beltway, Iowa Democratic national Charles Comfort, an at-large part of , the Oskaloosa , City Council , and vice president of its class table, conceded he had “honestly more or less forgotten” about Biden.
He did leave a significant tradition, which is unhappy, but I think his current status is simply fading into the history, Comfort told the Washington Examiner. ” I’m hoping Democrats put their crap up for 2026 and realize that America needs its leaders because they have no business reins in building their own money.”
Former Republican National Committee communications director Douglas Heye, a Democratic strategist, agreed that Biden has “practically been absent from the earth level for a while , now.”
” We does occasionally , discover him, but really hearing from him has become a unique function”, Heye told the Washington Examiner. ” Trump has no political power still, but Biden has left a pump, and if there’s somebody who knows how to fill a pump, it’s Donald Trump”.
Another Republican strategist Duf Sundheim, a Trump critic, concurred that “power abhors a pump” and” an very poor management coupled with a very intense Trump” “has led to one of the most forceful energy plays by a president-elect in U. S. history”.
” Many believe Trump will be more effective this time around,” Sundheim told the Washington Examiner. ” They feel he did not expect to win in 2016, and now he appears much more organized”.
To that end, Trump has named all of his presumptive nominees for Cabinet-level positions in his second administration, except for the chair of his White House Council of Economic Advisers. He met with a long list of business leaders, including those from Amazon‘s Jeff Bezos, Apple‘s Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, and Meta‘s Mark Zuckerberg, as well as world leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, after promising to impose 25 % tariffs on Canada if it does not do more to stop the export of fentanyl into the United States.
In sum, a third Republican strategist, Cesar Conda, Sen. Marco Rubio‘s (R-FL ) former chief of staff, described Trump as having the “most impactful post-election and pre-presidency period in American history”.
” He has forced other countries to make changes to their policies, such as Canada, which now pledges to beef up their border or face massive tariffs”, Conda told the Washington Examiner. ” He has negotiated investments in our economy by foreign companies such as Japan’s SoftBank, which pledged$ 100 billion in U. S. job creation”.
Polling suggests that the public is more optimistic about the prospects of Trump’s second administration than the post-election stock surge, which has been somewhat at least partially offset by this week’s Federal Reserve report regarding interest rates and inflation. For example, a Marquette Law School Poll published this week found 53 % of respondents approved of Trump’s first term, an increase from 50 % last month.
The president-elect’s first term may not last long, as a result of the drama over short-term funding for the federal government that was sparked by his opposition to a bipartisan agreement reached by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA ) and Tesla, SpaceX, and X CEO Elon Musk. Trump and Vice President-elect J. D. Vance called on Johnson to address the debt ceiling in the legislation.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, for instance, has criticized Trump, Musk, and Johnson for creating the funding “mess”” to pave the way]to add ]$ 5 trillion to our national debt”.
” That’s what this decision does”, she told reporters during her briefing on Friday. “You’re talking about , tax cuts , for billionaires, slashing , Social Security, slashing , Medicare, slashing]early childhood education and health program ] Head Start. According to Elon Musk and the president-elect, Congressional Republicans carried out their decisions.
Regardless, Jean-Pierre was repeatedly questioned about Biden’s lack of leadership during the funding negotiations, aside from telephone discussions with House Minority Leader , Hakeem Jeffries , (D-NY ) and Senate Majority Leader , Chuck Schumer , (D-NY).
All Americans need to be aware that Republicans are causing this mess and that they are the ones who are causing it, Jean-Pierre said. The president has used this tactic before, and this is not his first time coming here. He understands how , Congress , works. He’s been around for some time. He is aware of the best way to accomplish this in this context.
” The president is the president of the United States, and he is leading”, she added. “You’re hearing what I’m saying, right? I represent the American president. … I’m speaking directly for him”.
Since last month’s election, Biden has traveled to South America for his last G20 and APEC summits and the first presidential tour of the Amazon, in addition to this month’s trip to Angola and next month’s counterpart to Italy and the Vatican. His administration, too, negotiated a ceasefire deal between Israel and Lebanon in November. Domestically, Biden has pardoned his son Hunter, pardoned or commuted the sentences of another 1, 500 people in the largest act of clemency in a single day, and forgiven another$ 4.28 billion in federal student loan debt for 55, 000 public employees for$ 180 billion for 4.9 million borrowers since 2021.
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But for Comfort, the Iowa Democrat, Democrats ‘ road back to relevance is hindered by the reality that, whether he likes it or not,” a majority of Americans voted for Trump and MAGA”.
” Hope the Democrats have a coherent plan to give the keys back to mommy and daddy, put misbehaving children in timeout, and then fix America,” he said. ” But unfortunately, I would consider the current state of the Democratic Party to a home where mom and dad are divorcing. One parent will fight back and be strong for the betterment of the children, while the other will allow the children to walk all over them and grant them everything they want so they can all remain best friends, which is simply not going to work.
