While many are outraged over the chaos, others have embraced some policies promised on the campaign trail<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not a fan of Trump, but he\u2019s delivering a long-overdue kick in the pants to the bloated bureaucracy of the US federal government,\u201d said Martyn, a marketing executive from California. <\/strong>\u201cSeems odd to ask Trump to focus on eliminating corruption, but sometimes you need a crook to catch a crook. It\u2019s been, however, way more chaotic than I thought was possible.\u201d<\/p>\n Martyn was among thousands of Americans who shared with the Guardian how they felt about the first weeks of Donald Trump\u2019s second term, painting a picture of voters who felt disoriented and maximally alarmed on one side, and exhilarated, hopeful or positively surprised on the other.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While many are outraged over the chaos, others have embraced some policies promised on the campaign trail \u201cI\u2019m not a fan of Trump, but he\u2019s delivering a long-overdue kick in the pants to the bloated bureaucracy of the US federal government,\u201d said Martyn, a marketing executive from California. \u201cSeems odd to ask Trump to focus … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}