Trump Admin 2 Months In

The Trump 47 administration has been in office roughly 2 months. I created this thread so people can discuss their actions, where they’ve been succeeding, and where they can to do better.

My thoughts:
I linked the article because is really their first mistake that people have been able to attack on. No huge blunders or moves resulting in loss of political steam/capital.
> “They’ve made a big deal out of this because we’ve had two perfect months,” - Trump

Everything else they have been doing seems to be going very well. I believe their biggest successes are: Immigration, Executive Orders, and DOGE. DOGE is literally draining the swamp and seems to be continuing on this path, USAID is gone, which seems crazy and is a really good thing. Elon has been crushing it here. Federal worker buyouts and return to work order is also great to clear out unnecessary bureaucrats. An actual immigration plan has been put in action and criminals are being put away, some designated terrorists groups are being sent, without due process, to CECOT in El Salvador! This has to happen and keep happening, constant pressure needs to be applied on this wound until the bleeding stops. I hope the numbers and scope increases to include average José illegal immigrants in the future. The Executive Order rapid fire has been amazing and no one has been able to keep up. It is good that this is being used and Trump is going FDR mode like Yarvin hoped he would. Glad Ukraine stuff is being dealt with as well. Hopefully that war ends soon.

I also think that we are very blessed to have JD Vance as VP. He is very intelligent, and cares about all the right things (EU destruction being one). I am interested to watch his political career.

Their worst department has been tariffs, which really have to be rethought. The tariff problem was laid out really well in this comment: >>2744. Really needs to be cleaned up. Unsure how presidents snap out of things like this, he seems pretty dead set on this. This obviously affects the economy a lot, reshoring manufacturing would be great, but regulation sunsetting/reform seems like a much better path that leveraging tariffs.

Something I’d like to see happen that probably won’t is the arming of White South Africans who are being attacked for their race. The situation there is very grim with a murder rate higher than Ukraine warzones. These people need to be allowed to exist otherwise their race(Boer) and culture may very well die out. There are more race based laws than in apartheid South Africa. Trump should fix that country and at least save people under attack.

Please share your thoughts on the current admin, what they done well, and how they can do better.

There are three types of problems:

1. Ones that the right tried to solve for years, but lacked urgency and resolve
2. Ones without an actual plan, but which could eventually be solved through persistence and general pressure
3. The rest, which are neither issues of political will, nor amenable to trial and error

In my opinion, the current administration is doing an amazing job on the first type, alright one on the second, and actively courting disaster with the third.

To give specific examples:
1. There were already plans to bring USAID in line and reform education during the previous Trump term. It's great to finally see execution on these

2. Immigration/deportation, expanding executive power, and dismantling leftist patronage networks are all works in progress, unlikely to be completed during the term. But just taking these problems seriously and trying to solve them is commendable by itself

3. Getting out of the fiscal hole, rearranging our "rules-based order," and dealing with China are very hard problems. It's understandable if the administration can't solve them. However, messing around here is more likely to result in catastrophe than breakthrough, which seems to be current approach

I'll grade this term as a great success if the administration can maintain its current trajectory without stepping on any major mines along the way. Unfortunately, right now that looks like a coin toss.

>>2760
good summary of the situation. I'm pleased overall but we need to be going harder and further. I'll give my rating on various issues:

Tariffs: what the fuck man. Like I get it and support in theory what they are trying to do, but it looks like it's hurting and I haven't heard the analysis of how it's actually helping. If >>2744 is right that's just depressing.

Immigration: great start, but those are rookie numbers. They need to be deporting millions per month to get this done. This one done properly would hurt like hell, but at least I fully understand why that pain is necessary. To get the numbers up they are going to need mass self-deportation which is mostly about making the system hostile to illegals. They should be losing bank accounts at scale, paying big taxes on remittances, losing all hope of benefits, etc. How to do this I don't know.

DOGE: This one has been fun. Destroying USAID is a good start. I hope they are able to go even harder and get a lot done. They are no doubt going to break a bunch of stuff that matters, but it can mostly be put back together again. The thing that can't as easily be put back together is the corruption and entrenchment of the enemy. That's why this is necessary. Maybe they can even reduce spending (though that's mostly interest payments and welfare at this point).

South Africa: OP you say arming boers is necessary to avoid genocide. It's more important than that. The ANC is the prototype, vanguard, and symbol for what is happening to European civilization everywhere. The Irish, British, Germans, French, Scandis, Anglo diaspora, etc ALL are on the chopping block for eventual genocide. As long as the ANC stands, GNC stands everywhere. If anyone civilized can get out from under the ANC, whether Cape or Boer, the historical inevitability argument for GNC will be broken and the west can be re-moralized. The Boer's fight is everyone's fight. For this reason I am very pleased to see this getting highlighted finally, but again we need to do more. Evacuating them would be a loss. They need to win and find a new model for SA.

Ukraine & Euro remilitarization: I'm glad to see efforts to try to wrap up the meatgrinder in Ukraine. What a fucking pointless war. Trump's threats to cut Europe off have been great. It's exactly what they need, especially if they can establish some kind of peace in Ukraine. Europe needs to pour their surplus into becoming strong so this doesn't happen again, but more importantly so that they are living in reality again. The more Europe has an existential need to be a military society, the less they will be able to get away with genociding themselves slowly (which is quite expensive!). You know that joke that things are getting serious when they put white men back in the military propaganda? They need to be serious in that way and then NOT GO TO WAR. The ideal situation is the elites are deathly afraid of war and feel they have to strengthen their society and race to avoid it by subsidizing the best and strongest elements of their society. The worst situation is when they profit from throwing their domestic political enemies onto the front lines of meatgrinder wars. Giving Euro elites skin in the game on their own defense is exactly what we need.

There's of course a ton more they are doing and have to do.

I'll talk about immigration.

They've made three major moves: 1) use the Alien Enemies Act to do deportations without process, 2) begin immigration raids at schools, hospitals, and churches, and 3) use military planes for deportations.

These moves don't significantly move the needle on immigration because they don't scale. Their use of the Alien Enemies Act was flimsy and was already stopped in court[1]. Military planes are a very inefficient way to transport people, and they've already suspended this initiative[2]. After 2 months of frantic activity, the deportation rate is currently below the 12 month moving average[3]. There is no line of sight to the administration achieving its goals on immigration.

Worse than inefficient, their strategy is unpopular. Sensitive places like hospitals are less target rich than Home Depot parking lots, so expanding raids to sensitive areas doesn't make deportations more efficient but they do piss people off[4]. Not only do their actions have no chance of achieving their aims, they erode goodwill with moderates (like me), making it harder and harder as time goes on to ever achieve their goals. The juice isn’t worth the squeeze.

We all know that 'the smart way' looks like on border enforcement and deportations. The gameplan has been on the shelf for years. On the border: lead with drone patrols, add more guards for making apprehensions, add more judges for processing the apprehended, limit asylum requests, have asylum seekers wait in Mexico for their cases to be ruled on. On deportation: incentivize people to self-deport by making the system hostile to them (>>2771), such as by requiring the use of E-Verify to verify someone’s immigration status before hiring them, opening a bank account, opening a utility account, etc.

So why aren't they doing that? Sure, it'd take Congress passing a law, but all systemic change does. And the time is ripe. Republicans have the trifecta and Trump dominates the Republican party. Democrats are defeated and leaderless and there's no 'resistance' this time. Trump will never be more popular than today. Republicans rejected a comprehensive immigration deal in the Senate last year, and they could definitely get a much better deal now.

Here's the riddle of the Trump administration: why aren't they asking Congress for action?

The administration has not asked Congress to approve any of the items in 'the smart way' plan. They haven't presented an immigration package to Congress or asked Congress for any action on immigration. In Trump's address to Congress, he didn't call on Congress to do anything at all.

So instead of taking 'the smart way', they're taking, out of necessity, 'the loud way'. Instead of passing a law giving ICE expanded deportation authority, they're using a flimsy interpretation of an 1798 law and getting blocked in court. Instead of passing a law requiring public schools to verify a parent's immigration status, they're sending ICE agents into schools on foot.

And all the while, the window of opportunity on immigration reform in America is closing. Every day they alienate more moderates in Congress and in the public. Every day they continue down 'the loud way', it becomes harder to turn back. By the time they realize that they need to try 'the smart way', it will be too late. It's a fucking disaster.

Sources
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/trump-deportations-flight-block-alien-enemies-act.html
[2] https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-deportation-flights-paused-cost-c37c577a
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/us/politics/trump-immigration-deportations-arrests.html
[4] https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2025/03/26/americans-views-of-deportations/re_2025-03-26_views-of-deportations_0-02/

The big problem is that the US government has become a 'vetocracy'. The government can't legislate, due to the filibuster. The filibuster, at least the way its currently implemented is a very brain-dead institution. The senators don't need to get up and actually filibuster. All they need to do is send a note, that they intend to filibuster, and the senate acts as if they've filibustered. Additionally, every district judge can issue a nationwide injunction.

So we find ourselves in a position where we don't/can't legislate, due to the filibuster. That means a stand-off between an executive branch that relies on loopholes / 'hacks to the system' / 'creative' interpretations of existing legislation; and a judiciary that's trigger happy in issuing nationwide injunctions.

If MAGA wants to radically reform government, they need to rip the band-aid off and get rid off the filibuster, as it is currently implemented. Republicans have a structural advantage in the senate. Over the long term it'll be to our advantage.

Then we can actually do civil service reform, actually close departments, actually radically deregulate, and actually reform elections.

>>2775

The Trump administration can complain about the filibuster once they've actually proposed legislation. Any legislation.

If the Trump administration is annoyed by how judges interpret the law, they should propose legislation to change the law.

There is some set of civil service and immigration reforms that would be popular and could easily be signed into law. Trump should propose some! Remember that there was an immigration deal ready to pass the Senate last year. Quit making excuses for an administration that isn't doing the bare minimum to achieve its goals.

The filibuster and judges have always existed. FDR went "FDR mode" despite them. He did it by being popular and by proposing legislation that was popular. But then he proposed kneecapping the judiciary and he was stopped... by the filibuster. If you consider yourself to be a serious person, you should familiarize yourself with the history of the filibuster before suggesting removing it. For example, can you name the 3 most serious constitutional crises that were averted by the filibuster?

>>2777

I partially agree with your criticism of the administration; they seem to have given up on any non-reconciliation based legislation, without even attempting it. I think this is a mistake too. I don't think the administration is complaining about it though, I am.

But I also partially disagree, the filibuster we have today is not the filibuster that FDR had. I'm sympathetic to the idea that we should keep a reformed version of it, where you actually have to get up on stage and actually filibuster. But the silent filibuster is actually itself inducing a constitutional crisis.

In fact, we already live in a post-constitutional order. Unelected bureaucrats are actually the legislative branch, the administrative branch doesn't abide by separation of powers (due to administrative judges), vast majority of trials end in plea deals, and the trial process itself is the punishment, the idea of a trial by a jury of peers is long gone. Democrats too ignore laws, particularly as it relates to immigration. We bomb/invade countries without explicit congressional authorization. Nationwide injunctions are ubiquitous, including in non-political matters. Legislation that we pass are long documents that no one reads, and come in last second with an ultimatum on shutting the government down. Courts and bureaucrats regularly ignore the written legislation and just make up interpretations as they see fit. Aren't these all 'constitutional crises'.

The idea that we need the silent filibuster to prevent a constitutional crisis is I think backwards. We need to make it easier to conduct major reform of the system. But I don't think the Trump administration is on track to achieve this.

>>2771
>On South Africa It's more important than that. The ANC is the prototype, vanguard, and symbol for what is happening to European civilization everywhere. The Irish, British, Germans, French, Scandis, Anglo diaspora, etc ALL are on the chopping block for eventual genocide.

Yep, fully agree. They need backing and support of some kind. They cannot give up and be shipped to the US. The White man has to be allowed to exist, with his kind, in his own community. Every other race/culture is allowed to have their own country. The Admin has to deal with this carefully, but I don’t think it would be difficult. Who cares if they are called racist, won’t be the first time. It is ultimately stopping a genocide/racial murder spree. Just send Erik Prince over their quietly. I want white people to be able to have their own communities and countries. (I’m sure Eastern Europe has some very white countries, the west deserves that too)

>>2782
>allowed to exist, with his kind, in his own community.
>Every other race/culture is allowed to have their own country
this 1999 stormfront framing of the issue is weak and vulgar. It presumes way too much from grievance group ethics and just tries to get the white man in on the moral patient grift. The real issue here is european civilization as a transcendent higher thing more valuable than any particular group (though of course embodied in particular groups) has been targeted for destruction and expropriation by the international left (GNC) because of its superior beauty and productivity. Its not about any kind of fairness or what we or they are "allowed" to do (by who, exactly?), it's about preserving the power and existence of civilization and civilized man. I don't think the enemies of this (racial or otherwise) should be allowed (by us) to exist anywhere in our sphere of influence. Therefore the ANC, whose essential politics and international symbolic meaning is the murder and looting of european civilization, must be destroyed.

This is what the MAGA revolution is about too. It is the reassertion of civilization against the resentment and corruption of the looters and their vulgar racial egalitarianism.