In his speech, he seemed to be living in a reality that is not the one we’re actually living in. And I think that is an important skeleton key at this point to understanding the Trump administration. Do you remember when Times Opinion, in fact, published, in the first administration, the famous incognito “we are the resistance inside the Trump administration.” Of course I remember. Paul Ryan, another senior Republican who did not owe his career to Donald Trump, who was not fully bought in on Trump. I thought one of both funny and dark refrains of the speech was where he kept saying that it wasn’t his idea to name the Trump savings accounts, Trump accounts, “Their children’s brand-new Trump accounts.

Source: New York Times February 27, 2026 11:43 UTC