The Daily Populous Tuesday July 22nd, 2025 morning edition
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Sunday marked six months of President Donald Trump’s return to office.

To celebrate, he and top Republicans kicked the hagiography into full gear. “Today is Six Month Anniversary of my Second Term. Importantly, it’s being hailed as one of the most consequential periods of any President,” Trump claimed in a Truth Social rant. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) claimed in a post on X, “JUST SIX MONTHS into President Trump’s second term, America is safer, stronger, and more prosperous”—despite ample evidence to the contrary. Meanwhile, the White House posted an absurd cartoon depicting a slimmed-down Trump with $100 bills and bald eagles flying in the air around him, plus a nearly two-minute-long video that touted his alleged accomplishments.

But millions of Americans would disagree with those assertions. In fact, a closer look at the reality of Trump’s second term so far shows that his administration has made life worse for huge swaths of the electorate. Let’s count the ways.

When you consider the past six months in their totality, it’s clear that it was an historic start to Trump’s second term—just not in the ways he thinks.

Justcoffeeforme on July 21st, 2025 at 23:10 UTC »

The Heritage Foundation is destroying the US

They have been working at their plan for a long while

And they are definitely speeding things up

It seems like every day we fall deeper into a dystopian hell

Boltzmann_head on July 21st, 2025 at 22:55 UTC »

Fuck "worse:" he is actively working to kill hundreds of thousands of us.

Closefromadistance on July 21st, 2025 at 22:09 UTC »

Mission Accomplished for him and all his American hating trolls.