President Donald Trump’s first six months back in office have indeed been historic…just not in the ways that he thinks. <\/span>Gripas Yuri\/Abaca\/ZUMA<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Sunday marked six <\/span>months of President Donald Trump\u2019s return to office. <\/p>\n To celebrate, he and top Republicans kicked the hagiography into full gear. \u201cToday is Six Month Anniversary of my Second Term. Importantly, it\u2019s being hailed as one of the most consequential periods of any President,\u201d Trump claimed<\/a> in a Truth Social rant. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) claimed<\/a> in a post on X, \u201cJUST SIX MONTHS into President Trump\u2019s second term, America is safer, stronger, and more prosperous\u201d\u2014despite ample evidence to the contrary. Meanwhile, the White House posted<\/a> 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<\/a> his alleged accomplishments.<\/p>\n But millions of Americans would disagree with those assertions. In fact, a closer look at the reality of Trump\u2019s second term so far shows that his administration has When you consider the past six months in their totality, it\u2019s clear that it was an historic start to Trump\u2019s second term\u2014just not in the ways he thinks. <\/p>\n<\/article><\/div>\n <\/s>made life worse for huge swaths of the electorate. Let\u2019s count the ways.<\/p>\n\n
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