At the end of Friday's Washington Week with The Atlantic on PBS, moderator Jeffrey Goldberg brought up "something very strange happened at the White House this week, we had a little bit of a president on the roof situation." But something else very strange happened. Liberal reporters said Trump's second term is "way more effective" than the first.
The talk went from Trump on the roof to the new plans for a big White House ballroom. ABC's Jonathan Karl actually claimed Trump's first term wasn't consequential, which is weird coming from people who panicked over it in real time:
KARL: He's got big plans. And to me, it says something about the difference between the first presidency and the second Trump presidency. The first Trump presidency kind of came and went. It was rather ephemeral in its effects on the country despite what we all saw at the time. This one, he's making more radical changes to the country and to the White House that'll live well beyond his presidency.
TYLER PAGER, New York Times: And I think part of it is because he now knows how government works. I think one of the things that really is the key difference between the first term and the second term is that he had a whole host of characters in the government that were trying to stymie his efforts to radically change the country. He's now surrounded by people that are fully supportive of his agenda and helping him do it.
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