On Not Losing Perspective In The Trump II Madness

Many things have happened. Here are some of the things. This is the morning memo of TPM. Register For the e-mail version.

Gracias!

A big thank you to Sarah Posner, John Light and Nicole Lafond for keeping the morning memo so that I can exhaust myself for a few weeks. It was a particularly bad moment to leave: the end of the term of the Supreme Court, the final adoption of the central legislation of the second term of President Trump and the decisions leading to some of the most important deportation affairs threatening the rule of law.

Keep it in perspective

Despite my personal frustration and a deep feeling of Fomo, fleeing a little was an important reset not only for all the usual reasons, but because it is easy to lose a perspective in this work line, especially since January 20. I had my in a hurry to the glass of the Trump II presidency in a way you needed.

The morning’s note has been focused on its creation has been focused on providing you with a proportionate, reasonable and measured overview only on the essential new policies of the day. He avoided alarmism and regularly spared you to devote your limited attention to the news that does not deserve it. He also tried to maintain a coherent standard for what deserves your attention, including certain occasional reminders that politics is greater than DC and life is greater than politics.

But after the second inauguration of Trump, my own curiosity and my inability to give an immediate meaning to its unleashing by the federal government prompted me to take a morning memo in a somewhat different direction. The volume of the transport of new essential, often historical policies, which have challenged easy categorization, have forced new resettlement on how to present the news. It was important to find new buckets in which place new types of stories. My continuous objective on the three horsemen of the Apocalypse Trump II – Remint, Destruction and Corruption – was an example of the offer of new categories to use.

A new political taxonomy

More broadly, I was determined to propose a new political taxonomy which represented the unprecedented changes in American politics, such as the infiltration of the Doge and the attacks of the White House against the federal judicial power. It was like a professional fault simply to postpone the coverage of the old old -fashioned policies in the Trump II era. But proposing a new taxonomy in real time meant the grouping and the reassessment continues not only individual stories, but entire categories of stories and that necessarily meant to start a lot of news every day, much more than what I expected before.

It was a big change compared to the way I originally designed the morning memo. I had always wanted it to be windy enough and succinct enough to be read in a single fast session, but intelligent enough to make you feel that you checked the box to be an informed citizen. This balance was difficult to find in the first half of 2025. I did not feel windy or succinct. In the assault on the first 100 days of Trump II, you throw yourself more on you was easy to justify, but it has become more difficult to defend as we moved in summer.

A restart of the morning memo

It took a few days before the Daily Grind to reassess how to reposition the morning memo to serve you at best. Spend time as a normal human, sometimes consuming But not all The new politicians have been a good reminder of what I find most useful in a news site: the context and the explanation of a reliable narrator which weaves a large -scale history of information fragments of the day.

The volume of anarchy and new historical policies remains high. It will remain difficult to understand it daily without overwhelming yourself. Where I landed is to throw yourself less on you in a summary way and devote more time to explanation and contextualization. This does not mean condescension or excessive simplification. This means trying to tell the radical story of the Trump II presidency and the descent from America to authoritarianism by drawing several scenarios to illustrate the wider dynamics in play.

Don’t worry. It will always be a glimpse of the new politicians of the day, an anthology of the most important stories. But I want to return to a more bright, tighter and more accessible version of Morning Memo who lets you want more, not to fight to arrive at the end.

Go here tomorrow when we get there.

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