President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrive to pardon a turkey named Gobble in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 25 November 2025. JIM LO SCALZO/POOL/EPA/Shutterst

As far as President Trump is concerned, T.S. Eliot got it all wrong.

April is not the cruelest month, November is.

As he barrels toward the end of his first year back in the White House, the president is beset by slumping poll numbers and a pileup of problems, some of which are self-inflicted.

Even a gaggle of normally obedient Republicans in Congress are growing restless, and his call for gerrymandering House district lines in red states to pad the GOP advantage in the midterms is in danger of producing the opposite outcome.

The sheer volume of mounting trouble reflects Trump’s su

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