How Trump survives: Battling the media, former allies and assassination attempts

Donald Trump has been written disconnected a 1000 times and ever managed to bounce back.

He hung connected erstwhile helium archetypal got successful the contention and was mocked arsenic a sideshow. When the "Access Hollywood" portion came out. When his supporters attacked the Capitol connected Jan. 6. 

He outlasted 2 impeachments and 4 transgression cases. He won reelection erstwhile that seemed similar a agelong shot. He’s the Harry Houdini of Washington. 

And connected Saturday night, helium survived his 3rd assassination attempt. At a meal that was expected to diagnostic the president mocking the media, his calm effect to being targeted by a heavy equipped shooter generated tremendous sympathy for him. It’s a unsafe job, helium said.

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President Donald Trump gestures arsenic helium speaks successful the James Brady Press Briefing Room astatine the White House aft a shooting astatine the yearly White House Correspondents' Association Dinner successful Washington, Saturday, April 25, 2026. (Jose Luis Magana/AP)

In fact, helium "fought similar hell" to proceed with the Correspondents' Association dinner, but the Secret Service – 1 of whose members was changeable but saved by a protective vest – insisted connected clearing the room. 

At the aforesaid time, Trump has specified mounting governmental problems that it’s hard to debar the decision he’s successful a escaped fall. 

The president is bogged down successful an unpopular warfare and canceled the latest talks. Rising state prices are inflicting symptom astatine home. He whitethorn beryllium losing the redistricting wars. Some of his astir salient supporters successful the blimpish media person turned connected him with a vengeance, adjacent apologizing for having supported him.

That’s not all. The Democrats are virtually definite to triumph the House. They are talking astir impeaching Trump the time they’re sworn in. Sure, he’d beryllium acquitted successful the Senate, but his past 2 years would beryllium a blizzard of investigations and payback.

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What’s more, the president can’t tally again. He’ll inactive person the powerfulness of incumbency, but the House tin artifact astir of what helium wants to bash (and this is beyond the media phantasy that the absorption enactment could instrumentality the Senate arsenic well).

In the ever-present polls, Trump has dropped arsenic debased arsenic 33% support successful an AP survey, his worst numbers ever.

More eye-popping is simply a caller survey with a ample sample, from Strength successful Numbers/Verasight, which says 21% of Republicans enactment impeachment, with 72% opposed. Among independents, 50% backmost impeaching the president.   

And a Fox News canvass recovered much respondents trusting the Democrats implicit the Republicans connected the economy, by 4 points, for the archetypal clip successful 15 years.

This comes against the backdrop of Trump having fired 3 women successful his Cabinet, creating a consciousness of disorder, and his woman giving a televised code to contradict immoderate engagement with Jeffrey Epstein.

But let’s person a world check.

Trump’s relentless attacks connected the property person taken their toll, with galore dismissing the sum arsenic fueled by idiosyncratic hostility. And Democrats, with fewer exceptions, aren’t helping themselves by appearing to basal for the Iranian terrorists erstwhile our work members are astatine risk.

By November, the Iran warfare could beryllium a distant memory. The system mightiness bask an uptick. Even now, with the ceasefire collapsing implicit the Strait of Hormuz blockade, the banal marketplace has deed grounds highs.

Trump volition usage his media mastery to predominate the quality agenda. He already takes calls from reporters astatine each hours. 

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The Democrats, meanwhile, are leaderless. Even if Hakeem Jeffries is speaker, the president volition marque acold much news. That won’t alteration until the 2028 primaries, erstwhile a front-runner oregon 2 emerges.

Trump tin marque quality with enforcement orders, specified arsenic moving marijuana to a little classification and boosting probe into psychedelic drugs.

The betrayal being voiced by his onetime allies connected the right, who embraced his pledge of nary caller overseas wars, whitethorn beryllium little important for those not immersed successful the online world. But it is simply a bellwether for the splintering of the MAGA coalition.

President Donald Trump pretends to purpose a sniper weapon portion speaking with reporters successful the James Brady Press Briefing Room astatine the White House, Monday, April 6, 2026, successful Washington. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)

Now immoderate of its starring members are calling him erratic and reckless.

No 1 is loving this much than the Democrats and the Never Trumpers, who accidental wait, you’re conscionable noticing this now? We’ve been telling you this for years.

"Trump looks hopeless to tally for the hills," says New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd. "He perpetually says helium has defeated the mullahs and ‘obliterated’ their subject power, and yet Iran refuses to beryllium subdued."

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What’s obvious, says seasoned columnist Andrew Sullivan: "Trump is wholly retired of his depth. He went to warfare impulsively. He ne'er expected the Iranians to adjacent the Strait of Hormuz; and past they did. And helium can’t re-open it. In fact, helium decided to adjacent it again. Or something."

Throw successful the AI representation of Trump arsenic Jesus, which offended galore Catholics, and the database of unforced errors conscionable grows. He’s adjacent attacked the Supreme Court, a 3rd of which helium appointed.

And determination is increasing interest astir the wellness of the president, who volition soon crook 80, with tv moving footage each clip helium closes his eyes astatine a meeting.

President Donald Trump irked Americans connected some sides of the aisle  by posting an AI-generated representation depicting himself arsenic Jesus Christ. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Trump regularly talks astir gathering his monolithic ballroom, which reminds radical of his astonishment demolition of the East Wing and plans for a monument that would dwarf the Arc de Triomphe. He brought it up aft the gunfire connected Saturday night, saying the ballroom would beryllium bulletproof and highly secure.

Trump besides utilized the gunfire astatine the Washington Hilton to underscore his ain importance. Having studied assassinations, helium said, "the astir impactful people, the radical that bash the most… they’re the ones they spell after."

Politically speaking, Trump is intelligibly struggling. But anyone who rules retired a rebound for this president is ignoring history.

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There volition beryllium each kinds of twists and turns successful the remaining six months earlier the midterms, and the Democrats are unpopular arsenic well. 

But here’s a infinitesimal of uncommon consensus: We tin each beryllium grateful that the Secret Service did its occupation well.