The Ezra Klein Show · 2026-01-16 · 63 min · 10,604 words

Has Trump Achieved a Lot Less Than It Seems?

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As long as it may have felt, we are one year into Donald Trump's second term as president. To follow the Trump administration in the news is to be exposed to the full muzzle velocity of this presidency, the overwhelming procession of news stories, wild statements, like spectacular, outrageous, sometimes terrifying. events, it feels like so much more is happening than the human mind, than the entire media, than the country can absorb. But how much has actually changed? How much has Trump actually got and done?

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