{"id":349575,"date":"2026-04-06T02:35:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/a-week-later-no-kings-was-right-about-trump-that-still-wont-be-enough"},"modified":"2026-04-06T02:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:36:00","slug":"a-week-later-no-kings-was-right-about-trump-that-still-wont-be-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/a-week-later-no-kings-was-right-about-trump-that-still-wont-be-enough","title":{"rendered":"A Week Later, No Kings Was Proper About Trump. That Nonetheless Gained\u2019t Be Sufficient"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A week ago, the best defense of the No Kings protests<\/a> was that they were never supposed to change Donald Trump in one Saturday. They were supposed to test whether the anti-Trump energy spreading through smaller cities and suburbs could become something sturdier than a viral crowd shot. If the week that followed had gone flat, critics would have had a clean line: nice signs, nice catharsis, nothing more. Instead, Trump spent the next seven days giving protesters the kind of material they usually have to piece together themselves.<\/p>\n

That does not mean the movement won. It means the diagnosis got easier to defend. CNN put Trump at 35%<\/a>, a new second-term low, with his economic approval at 31%. His standing with independents now looks worse than Nixon\u2019s at Watergate, according to CNN\u2019s chief data analyst. And yet Democrats are only around D+5.5 on Nate Silver\u2019s generic-ballot average<\/a>, with Morning Consult even tighter. That is not a wave. That is the gap.<\/p>\n

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A steady fall into the abyss for Trump\u2019s net approval, as it falls into Death Valley. He\u2019s now at a term 2 low: -18 pts.<\/p>\n

Big reason why: Independents. Trump\u2019s at -45 pts.<\/p>\n

The worst for any prez at this point in term 2. Worse than Nixon (-36 pts) at the height of Watergate! pic.twitter.com\/DLbtXDzrkP<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) March 31, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Week Kept Writing the Protesters\u2019 Signs for Them<\/strong><\/h2>\n

No Kings was built around a simple accusation: Trump governs like public institutions exist to feed his own mythology. A week later, Florida signed the bill renaming Palm Beach International Airport after him<\/a>. His Miami presidential library renderings looked less like an archive than a monument, gold statue included. His signature is being added to new U.S. paper currency this summer \u2014 the first time a sitting president will sign American money \u2014 with his name already affixed to the Kennedy Center, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and a planned class of Navy warships. Call those harmless tributes if you want. They still sound exactly like what No Kings was warning about.<\/p>\n

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Then came the White House Easter lunch. Trump joked about being called a king. Paula White-Cain, a senior adviser in the White House Faith Office, compared his political suffering to Christ\u2019s story. Trump called people who reject his religious framing of America \u201ccrazy\u201d and fit to be \u201ccast aside.\u201d<\/a> Then Pope Leo, without naming him, used Palm Sunday to warn that God rejects the prayers of leaders who wage war with \u201chands full of blood.\u201d One side was wrapping power in sacred language. The other was using Holy Week to strip that language bare.<\/p>\n