Overview
- Salon catalogs repeated instances in which the president answered fraught questions with variants of 'I don't know,' including on controversial pardons, an MRI, newly released Jeffrey Epstein photos, nominee Casey Means, and Pete Hegseth's handling of classified material.
- The commentary says this represents a shift from his earlier 'two weeks' gambit that deferred answers with vague promises of forthcoming details.
- Analysts quoted by Raw Story frame the pattern as signaling fatigue and dwindling political energy, describing Trump as 'bored' and 'running on fumes.'
- Alternet highlights tension between Trump's prior distancing from Project 2025 and the appointment of Russell Vought, a key architect of that agenda, to lead the Office of Management and Budget.
- The pieces are opinion-driven syntheses of prior reporting, and suggestions that this strategy could weaken MAGA are presented as speculative assessments rather than established outcomes.