The US President’s credit is declining Donald Trump Within some of the categories he made his comeback to The white housein a way that is no longer read as a mere decline in popularity, but rather reveals a deeper crisis than a mere electoral shake-up, as the readings of some American newspapers showed.
And it showed In a recent poll prepared by the Associated Press and the Center for Public Affairs Research (NORC), Trump’s support among Americans under the age of forty-five declined from 39% to 28%, and among men from 47% to 38%, and his popularity among Hispanics fell by 16 percentage points in one year.
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When this decline in voters extends to constituencies accustomed to defending the president or riding on his momentum, in Europe and within the “Make America Great Again” movement (MagaTogether, it reveals a deeper crisis than just electoral turmoil, and from this ground, three American readings were launched to monitor the disintegration of the alliances that have long surrounded Trump at home and abroad.
Europe is moving away
In the New York Times, Catherine Penhold wrote that the European nationalist right received Trump’s rise for the first time, and then his return to the White House, as a confirmation of his anti-immigration and anti-elite rhetoric. liberalism And what is known as “politics”The wok“.
But this balance – as the writer quoted from a report by the newspaper’s bureau chief in Madrid Jason Horowitz – It has begun to erode over the past year under the weight of Trump’s tariffs and threats For GreenlandAnd his war on Iran And the energy crisis it caused, in addition to his attack on the Pope.
Thus, Trump’s name – in the newspaper’s view – has become a factor of alienation rather than a factor of mobilization, even in circles that saw him, until recently, as a natural ally.
The writer reviewed a report by Jason Horowitz, head of the newspaper’s Madrid office, which she said was: Embodies this Shift through my prime condition Pedro Sanchez In Spain, the Prime Minister Georgia Meloni In Italy, the former, who stands in ideological contrast to Trump, found in his challenge to the American president a way to revive his internal position at a time when he is facing crises and scandals that are putting pressure on his government.
The New York Times: Trump’s name has become an electoral burden in Europe, even for some right-wing leaders who once saw him as a natural ally.
The second, which has long been described as a bridge for the European right to Trump, found itself forced to distance itself from him, driven by the decline in his popularity in Italy after… War on IranHis commercial threats and attacks on the Pope.
Hence, the newspaper concluded a remarkable paradox, which is that Trump is no longer a guaranteed electoral gain, even for the nationalist right from which he previously derived legitimacy and impetus.
This decline does not stop at Spain and Italy, as the report indicates that the leader of the Islah Party, Nigel Farage in Britain He became more critical of Trump, and a prominent figure in the Alternative for Germany party described him as a “millstone,” as leaders in the AfD called for. French National Rally To put distance between her and Trump.
Even Hungary, which seemed most closely aligned with the Trump axis, is no longer immune to this change, and thus, Europe is no longer a scene of Trump’s influence, but rather has become a mirror of the decline of his appeal even within the environments that were feeding off his momentum.
Cracks inside “MAGA”
As for the American interior, two other articles reveal that the rift has reached the “MAGA” camp itself, and in Time magazine (Time), writer Thiago Ventura wrote about the disintegration of the relationship between Trump and…Tucker CarlsonOne of the most prominent voices that contributed to formulating the right-wing populist mood that brought the president to power.
The report stated that Carlson was not just a conservative commentator close to Trump, but rather he was a figure who accompanied him electorally, and promoted many of his policies, from strictness on immigration to dismantling diversity programs, but this familiarity – as the report monitors – ended in a public rupture after Carlson expressed his remorse for his support for Trump, saying that he had unintentionally misled his audience.
Time links this explosion first to the dispute over Iran, because Carlson was one of the most prominent right-wing voices opposing American military intervention against TehranHe saw the war as a departure from the promise of “America First.”
Trump’s relationship with Carlson moved from a close alliance to public remorse for supporting him, after the dispute expanded from Iran to other files.
However, the magazine explains that the rift is no longer limited to this file, but rather has expanded to issues related to the style of government itself, and Trump’s relationship with religion and the conservative symbols that he is supposed to represent.
Time quoted British academic Mark Shanahan as saying that Trump’s presidency is based, at its core, on public rivalries: For him to win, someone else must lose, and therefore his break with Carlson appears not to be an accident, but rather an extension of a method of governance that consumes allies as well as attacks adversaries.
The Time report reviews how the dispute went beyond the war on Iran to the debate over the language that Trump used to threaten Iranian infrastructure, a language that Carlson described as morally degenerate, and even considered it talk of a “war crime.”
Carlson also criticized generative images With artificial intelligence Trump published it, presented him in a Christ-like form, and saw in it a mockery of religion. Thus, the estrangement is no longer merely a dispute over a military option, but rather turns into a broader rift between Trump and some of the most important figures who previously granted him legitimacy within the cultural and religious right.
Break with Carlson
In an opinion piece in The Hill newspaper, Max Burns, a Democratic opinion contributor and strategist, wrote that “MAGA” has finally begun to discover “who Donald Trump really is,” based on the transition of figures such as Marjorie Taylor Greene Tucker Carlson fueled questions and doubts regarding the attempted assassination of Trump in Butler, believing that this was an indication that the machine of suspicion that the president and his allies had fueled against institutions and elites was turning against them as well.
In the writer’s reading, the matter here is not a passing conspiratorial whim, but rather a growing feeling of deception within part of the base that believed in the promises of the economic “golden age,” and then found itself faced with high prices, a faltering labor market, and an expensive war against Iran.
Burns strengthened his argument by referring to a poll by the Navigator Research Foundation, which showed that more than a quarter of Republicans, and about a fifth of “MAGA” voters, are dissatisfied with the way Trump dealt with the files of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, who was convicted of sex crimes, and that nearly half of “MAGA” Republicans believe that there is a White House cover-up of irregularities related to the case.
Regardless of the writer’s clear political position, what is important in his article is to point out that the rift within “MAGA” is no longer read only as a dispute over Iran, but rather as a broader shake in confidence itself, Al-Qaeda’s confidence in the man around whom the movement was built.
Disintegration of the Allies
Therefore, the most dangerous thing Trump faces today is not only the expansion of his opposition, but the erosion of the tools of his rise themselves. Populism That made him a reference for the global right is now pushing some of this right away from him, and the policy based on public rivalries has produced splits in his camp, and the culture of suspicion that fueled “MAGA” is now directed at him as well.
Between Europe, which is withdrawing the attraction of inspiration from him, and “MAGA”, which is losing some of its old certainty in him, Trump is facing what may be more dangerous than the traditional opposition: the disintegration of the alliances that he made himself, and which have always seemed to be the source of his primary strength.
