Tom Nichols

Done.

Well, wait a minute.

What happened to regime change, terrorism, you know, peace in the Middle East, all of those other things?

And that seems to be gone.

And then the president says, well, I'm making deals.

Pete wanted to go, but I'm talking to people.

This administration is all over the map.

Now, maybe they think, and, you know, let's...

try and impose some order on all this chaos.

Maybe they think that they are sending messages and kind of playing chess and manipulating the public information space.

If that's what they think, they aren't doing it well.

And they're certainly not doing it well with the president

kind of rambling on in one corner and Pete Hegseth acting like a teenage debate coach on the other.

But I think it's always the same story that when you see one of these people get up to the podium, they're performing for Donald Trump.

They're not actually transmitting information or trying to play the information game against the enemy.

That unfortunately is just not what they're about.

Yeah, you know, I think every poll that, every time they take a poll, what you really find is about 35 to 40% of the country, if you ask them if they support Donald Trump, they're just going to say yes, no matter what's going on.

I mean, Trump could be standing outside with a flamethrower burning their house down, and they're not going to say it.

The question, I think, becomes, because he's not going to run, I mean, we all worry about, oh, is he going to

But the question is, will voters displace that anger onto Republicans in the midterms and at state and local levels of government?