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Rich Lowry, the editor-in-chief of National Review, ruthlessly mocked President Donald Trump over the “vibe shift” he’s overseen during the first few months of his second administration in a new column, musing that “the Golden Age is coming, but, in the meantime, stock up on toilet paper.”
“The vibe around President Trump’s second term has shifted, and it’s all his doing,” began Lowry. “The president entered office with a bit of a wind at his back. His polling was better than the first time around, protesters weren’t in the streets, and federal investigators weren’t after him. The GOP was more united than in 2016 and business leaders wanted to work with him, while the culture was generally heading in an anti-woke direction.”
But, Lowry argued, Trump’s imposition of tariffs on much of the rest of the world has dragged his approval rating down.
“It’s hard to think of another example of a president changing the momentum of his administration from positive to negative so quickly and decisively. Trump did it literally in a matter of days,” he observed. “Usually, presidencies are rocked by events — a hostage crisis, a war gone wrong, uncontrolled inflation. Here, nothing was done to Trump; he did it to himself. He was the event.”
The longtime editor of the American right’s flagship magazine continued:
Listening to him during the campaign and his Inaugural Address, you’d have thought the promised Golden Age started on Day One. Instead, his message has shifted to the notion that the sunny uplands are off somewhere in the future, after we work through all the gut-wrenching turmoil. In other words, the Golden Age is coming, but, in the meantime, stock up on toilet paper.
Editorially, National Review has been critical of Trump on a wide variety of subjects, including his trade policy, his refusal to remedy his government’s mistake in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, and his hostility toward Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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