No sarcasm or nihilism at all. It’s an odd feeling, and one I’d never thought I would experience: sharing the optimism that a Clinton or Obama supporter might have felt at the beginning of one of their terms.

To answer your question, a lot. It’s hard to qualify anything this early in his term, but I’ll try.

I adored his picks for his Cabinet. I’ve been a Tulsi Gabbard fan for a while now, and seeing her not only recognized, but granted authority over exactly the area where I think she could do a lot of good, is heartwarming. Same goes for RFK Jr. There’s a lot I disagree with him about, but health and medicine aren’t two of them. I am quite glad that he’s in the position that he is in. The others, I have not followed so closely. I mention them in passing, as I admit freely to appealing to authority on people like Kash Patel and Pam Bondi, etc.

He’s made a lot of bold moves in his first month, and he’s been quite communicative to the public. He’s addressed and begun tackling immigration, he’s met with Natenyahu, Putin, and Zelenskyy, and he’s begun rolling out the tariffs. As stated in the first post, I’m not on board with all of these decisions. But I’m more on board than off, all things considered. Regardless, he’s painted himself as America first and as a peacemaker. And all of these actions are in that spirit, imo. Which, if nothing else, has glimmers of hope baked into it.

DOGE. Another of his quick strikes, and ingenious to boot. Taking a department already established under Obama, and refitting it as an auditing tool, is masterful. Like taking someone’s hand and making him punch his own face (yes, I was the younger brother ). Not to mention the very idea of it at all. This bloated government of life-long leeches have had their proboscices out for too long. It’s way past time to air out the laundry, and I’m here for it.

Icing on the cake: the pursuit of the Epstein and Kennedy files. To be clear, I expect nothing to come from these. The world won’t get to confirm how disgusting our deep state is just yet, unfortunately. I expect anything relevant will be scrubbed way before our eyes get to gaze on them, but it is nice to see such open pursuit.

If you want my honest opinion, I have a lot of reservations, still. It’s hard to imagine Trump is not a corrupted Annunaki pawn, considering the circles he’s been in, and the power he’s accumulated. Hell, Tulsi has her own troubling connections, and Kennedy’s… well, a Kennedy. However, they don’t seem to act like compromised robots, and for that they’ve earned the benefit of the doubt for me.