According to Acts: President Trump makes historic comeback

President Trump left Washington four years ago as a battered man.

He lost a tough electoral battle. He faced recriminations for the Capitol riot. That’s to say nothing of a slew of criminal charges.

F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said “there are no second acts in American life.”

But he might not have been writing about sports or politics. In athletics, Rocky Bleier, Tommy John and even Michael Jordan come to mind.

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Politics is full of comebacks: Richard Nixon, Winston Churchill and Vladimir Lenin make the cut.

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Now it’s only the second The American president will return to office. President Grover Cleveland served his first term from 1885 to 1889. But Cleveland lost the presidency in 1888. Cleveland won the popular vote, but lost the Electoral College to President Benjamin Harrison. However, Cleveland rallied to beat Harrison in 1892, returning to the White House.

So this is a second act for Trump. At least in the presidency.

For him, the president enjoys unprecedented public support. He got 77 million votes, although he did not reach 50%. But, the president got 312 electoral votes.

And so Trump, like Cleveland, is on his second act. What lies ahead?

The expectations are astronomical.

“The United States delivered a verdict on Nov. 5. They spoke loud and clear,” Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., told Fox.

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Republicans promised a makeover.

“When I see peace start to break out again around the world. They’re going to say, ‘This is the stability we’ve been asking for,'” Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., told Fox. “Father is back.”

Repressions are coming.

“When you have a wide open border, you don’t have security, you don’t even have sovereignty,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told NBC.

The president returns to power with more GOP unity than he had in 2016. Congressional Republicans were far from standing four blocks behind him. House Republicans then had 241 seats. His most ardent supporters on Capitol Hill were people who no longer serve. Former Reps. Chris Collins, R-N.Y., and Duncan Hunter Jr., R-Calif., were his early supporters in the House. Both were convicted in unrelated criminal matters and left Congress. Then Trump pardoned them. His main supporter in the Senate was former Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. Sessions left the Senate to serve as Trump’s first attorney general. He lasted less than two years, leaving office at the request of the president.

Republicans in Congress were skeptical of Trump at the time. Former House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., led the charge to dismantle ObamaCare. After the GOP had to pull the bill out of the House, Republicans finally mustered the votes to kill it a month later. The bill stumbled in the Senate after the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., voted against it. But the House’s failure on the first try told you all you need to know about where the party stood and how much influence Trump wielded.

But lawmakers pushed through Trump’s sweeping tax cuts later this year.

Unity is different among Republicans this time. And the administration and lawmakers are starting with an agenda of tax cuts and deficits.

“Right now there’s a discussion about whether we’re going to have one bill or two bills up here. We don’t care about the process. We just know we’ve got to get it done for the American people,” said Senator Mike. Rounds, RS.D., in Fox. “It’s way ahead of where it was eight years ago.”

But one GOP senator has a warning for his colleagues.

“I think the number one priority of the Republican Party should be securing that border,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-C., told CBS. “Get tax cuts and spending reductions later.”

It will be about mathematics. Despite his ambitious legislative ambitions to approve tranches of money for the border, but at the same time reduce spending and cut taxes. And Republicans have a tiny majority in the House. With the resignation of former Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Florida, to become national security adviser, House Republicans will be down to 218 votes. That majority shrinks to 217 when Rep. Elise Stefanik, RNY, resigns to become ambassador to the United Nations, assuming she receives Senate confirmation.

So moving anything forward in the House will be a challenge despite the goals.

Frankly, they may need help from Democrats on some issues, like avoiding a government shutdown or raising the debt ceiling.

“Even though my colleagues have been talking about the president getting a mandate, and he did electorally, that mandate doesn’t exist in the House,” Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., told Fox. “They barely have a majority. And so if they want to work with us, I think they’ll find a willing partner.”

Confirmation votes will come soon on Trump’s cabinet picks.

“You need a team that can be disruptive,” Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., told Fox. “They want disruptors. They want to think outside the box.”

But some choices might be too disruptive.

Consider Director of National Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services. Senate committees have not yet scheduled hearings for any of them. Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth likely has the votes for confirmation. But the Senate may need to hold a procedural vote to break a Democratic filibuster through Hegseth until his confirmation.

Still, Democrats are recalibrating their approach for Trump 2.0.

“I think the Democrats last time resisted the president on everything. It was a constant outrage. And I think this time they need to switch to a different strategy of selective resistance,” Moskowitz said.

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So Trump’s second act is underway. The problems faced by Grover Cleveland? Rates and silver policy. Trump won’t have to contend with the latter issue (we assume). But you know the ongoing battle over tariffs and issues with China, Canada, Mexico and elsewhere.

The new president has about two years to implement his policies and push his legislative agenda through Congress. But people expect results.

And that’s what happens with the second acts. In sports. And in politics Only in the theater there is a third.