, Columnist
Why Trump Isn’t Turning Into a Lame Duck
The president has a 93% approval rating among GOP voters. That gives him a lot of juice.
Not yet out of style.
Photographer: Emily Elconin/BloombergPresident Donald Trump’s second term is barreling ahead with the political momentum typical of a first term — and it shows no outward signs of dissipating.
Having lost reelection in 2020 but declined to retire from campaigning, Trump has been the central, all-consuming figure in American politics for a decade. That’s longer (and counting) than a typical second-term commander in chief, which might suggest to some political observers that lame duck status is lurking around the next corner.