President Donald Trump’s second term is barreling ahead with the political momentum typical of a first term — and it shows no outward signs of dissipating.

Having lost reelection in 2020 but declined to retire from campaigning, Trump has been the central, all-consuming figure in American politics for a decade. That’s longer (and counting) than a typical second-term commander in chief, which might suggest lame duck status is lurking around the corner.

Voters often tire of reelected presidents. But the 45th and 47th president is exerting political influence and wielding power like a chief executive in the prime of his first term.

“I see this as President Trump getting a mulligan,” Liam Donovan, president of the Republican digital advertising firm, Targeted Victory, said. “The things that

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