Opinion | Trump’s Worst Enemy? Himself.

This right now might be the high-water mark at this point of Trump’s stature with the public. I don’t see it going up in any meaningful sense. I think it’s going to continue to go down because there’s mismanagement of the federal government, there’s the material stuff. And then there’s the fact, as you point out, Michelle, that whenever any kind of scandal comes up, they seem to make themselves look red-handed. Taking Lauren Boebert into the Situation Room and trying to put the screws on her just doesn’t just make you look guilty. It makes it look like you have published a book titled ‘If I Did It,’ right. It puts you into late period O.J. territory. So I don’t really understand how things are ever going to get better for them. I think that that’s right. I mean, I will say, obviously, there are events that can occur. Here’s a wild card. One of the things that could actually end up helping Trump quite a bit is if the Supreme Court strikes down his tariffs, because right now a Trump policy is a huge drag on the economy. So I think if the Supreme Court reverses the tariffs, you might actually see a burst of economic activity and optimism that would be in spite of Trump, not because of Trump, but that he because presidents always benefit from a positive economic development. So I could see that there are events in the future that I could imagine helping Trump. Events. What I cannot see helping Trump is Trump. Who I cannot see helping Trump is MAGA.