The Trump-Musk Revolution Continues

Democrats keep claiming that we’re in a constitutional crisis.

They haven’t learned their lesson yet.

During the last election cycle, they continually said that Donald Trump was a threat to democracy. Over and over, they proclaimed everything Trump did was a threat to democracy.

Afterward, they began weaponizing the Department of Justice to go after President Trump. And Joe Biden was thinking of new ways nearly every day to violate the Constitution.

Now, since that “threat to democracy” line didn’t work, they’ve transmuted it into a “constitutional crisis.” According to Democrats, it is a constitutional crisis if the elected president of the United States appoints a person to go through all of the executive branches of government, all various agencies, and root out waste, fraud, and abuse.

But Americans do not think this is a constitutional crisis, which is why Trump’s approval ratings remain in the mid 50s at this point, the highest they have been in his entire career.

Most Americans consider what Trump is doing, particularly with Elon Musk and his revolutionary approach to government, to be common sense. Send somebody in to audit all the various agencies, figure out where the money’s being wasted, and then don’t waste our taxpayer money.

That should just be basic common sense. This should be a 100% issue. But Democrats are freaking out because they have built an entire bureaucratic system designed to do their will, whether they are in power or out of power.

Trump noted the deep state during his first term. He said it was thwarting his will on everything from foreign to domestic policy, that it was militarizing itself against his presidency by putting together ridiculous nonsense like the Mueller report.

The reality is that the deep state — meaning, a permanent bureaucratic structure designed to funnel taxpayer money to allies of Democrats in and out of government — has been a century-long project, and Trump is systematically dismantling it.

And the American people are with him.

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Democrats are attempting to claim that the elected president telling unelected bureaucrats not to spend taxpayer money is a constitutional crisis, a threat to democracy. In truth, it is one of the least fascistic things I’ve ever seen in my entire life.

Fascism is about centralization of power in one man or in an oligarchy which then takes more control over the people. I have yet to hear of a fascist movement that delegates more power back to the people and away from a centralized bureaucracy. I’ve never heard of anything remotely like that.

Democrats don’t want to recognize this, so they’re just going to keep shouting nostrums.

On Tuesday, President Trump signed an executive order that urged federal agencies to work with DOGE to cut the number of federal employees.

Ahead of that signing, Elon Musk joined Trump in the Oval Office. It was highly entertaining. Musk brought his son X because his basic principle is that he’s bringing his kid everywhere.

I thought it was wonderful. I bring my four kids virtually everywhere. They’re constantly with me. As they get older, I’m going to start bringing them to events, so they can experience them and learn. This is how kids learn: by following their parents around.

These images matter. The image of a Secretary of Defense who’s working out with troops, of a national security adviser striding into NATO meetings, or of Elon Musk with his tech proteges clearing out various government agencies, or of children in public places — all these images impact how human beings feel and think. And that makes a big difference.

Trump is moving fast. He’s breaking things. This is why Democrats are having such a tough time.

And something else is vital to note: President Trump has changed. The easiest way in the past to seed chaos with President Trump was to imply or state outright that someone else was actually the president or somebody else was running Trump.

Now, the reality is that no one perceives that to be the case.

Donald Trump is running the presidency. No one is running Donald Trump. Donald Trump is coming up with his own ideas. Donald Trump is making the decisions.

Americans know and understand this, which is why all the polling data shows seven in 10 Americans think he is a strong president. Despite the fact that the media, hoping to irritate Trump, claim Musk is the secret president, everyone, including Trump, knows that’s not the case.

Trump is empowering Musk, not the other way around. So Musk — in solidarity, in lockstep, arm in arm with Trump in the Oval Office — is a major development. It is a signifier that Trump is comfortable in his own skin as president, and he doesn’t feel threatened by the people who are around him, that he’s willing to take advice.

In the end, Trump is the decision-maker.

Seven in 10 Americans believe that Trump is keeping his promises right now, which is a historic number. We’re three weeks into his presidency. If Trump keeps moving at this rate, he is going to be the most transformative president in American public life since LBJ, possibly since FDR.

And he’s utterly secure in his job, which terrifies Democrats.