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Bulwark White House Correspondent Andrew Egger says President Donald Trump is a shock artist who knows how to catch an audience\u2019s attention. But these days, Egger says Trump is using his best talent as a Band-Aid.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDonald Trump is, above all, a showman. While he\u2019s plainly slowing with age, he has certainly not lost his ability to deliver near-daily shocks with his attacks on good government, ethics, and taste. But the nature of those shocks has been changing lately,\u201d Egger wrote in the Tuesday edition of Bulwark. \u201cMore and more, they\u2019ve seemed calibrated to obscure a harsh truth: Not yet two years into Trump 2.0, the administration\u2019s momentum has ground to a halt.\u201d<\/p>\n

If the year 2025 for Trump was a flurry of energy and deed, 2026 is a slow, wrenching tug at futility and loss.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis period of Trump\u2019s furious maximalism seemed to die in Minneapolis early this year. It has stayed dead since,\u201d said Egger. \u201cInstead, Trump has spent the first half of 2026 mostly just fighting to keep stuff from sliding away <\/em>from him. Simply reauthorizing funding for ICE and the Border Patrol turned out to be an enormous, sweaty legislative lift. So was maintaining his tariff regime after the Supreme Court ruled huge portions of it unconstitutional. Ditto maintaining his government\u2019s ability to conduct warrantless surveillance of foreigners \u2014 a typically uneventful legislative renewal Trump managed to capsize with his clownish appointment of hatchet man Bill Pulte to a top intelligence role. His top 2026 legislative priority, the elections grab-bag Save America Act, is a running joke that the Senate will never seriously consider. Other major initiatives, like the $1.776 billion \u2018anti-weaponization fund,\u2019 barely made it past the announcement stage before blowing up in the face of furious public opposition.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead, the things that occupy Trump this year are \u201cjust a sideshow to the major policy work,\u201d said Egger.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe has become obsessed with the minutiae of his self-aggrandizing monument building, from his Freedom250 birthday bash to the Kennedy Center to the East Wing Ballroom to the reflecting pool to his planned triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery,\u201d said Egger. \u201cAnd even that <\/em>isn\u2019t all going to plan: A judge\u2019s order that his name come off the Kennedy Center has provoked a world-historical hissy fit, with Trump declaring the institution dead and installing an apparently permanent cover over the building\u2019s facade rather than allowing it to be seen with his name removed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Egger said Americans should take heart by Trump\u2019s apparent lack of accomplishment this year, even if he insists on plastering his failure over with disconcerting behavior and national embarrassment.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s perfectly natural to remain outraged at Trump\u2019s ongoing parade of obscenities: It\u2019s not fun<\/em>, exactly, to see him and his people squee and gibber while a bloodsport fighter hoots that \u2018MICHELLE OBAMA IS A MAN!\u2019 from a fight cage erected preposterously on the White House lawn. But these circuses aren\u2019t just intended to trigger the libs and titillate his base \u2014 they\u2019re designed to distract both camps from how little the president is actually getting done these days,\u201d said Egger.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCompared to where we were last year, it\u2019s a damn good start,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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