Donald Trump, in a speech that could only be described as a victory lap for ‘swamp draining’, boasts of his first month’s achievements in office, which he claims outstrip those of most administrations in four or eight years. It’s like watching a man who just stepped off a treadmill and boasts of running a marathon. His administration’s focus on dismantling climate change efforts, slashing regulations, and ‘draining the swamp’ might make for good campaign slogans, but in reality, it’s a blueprint for turning the federal bureaucracy into a leaky sieve. As for ‘Project 2025’, it’s clear Trump has embraced it with all the enthusiasm of a teenager at a parent-teacher conference: he swears he’s not interested, yet he’s acting exactly like he’s the head boy. The fact that key figures from his administration were involved in crafting this ‘hard-right’ blueprint is a bit like finding out your chef trained at a vegan cooking school and now you’re served a pork tenderloin. It’s not just a ‘drain the swamp’ – it’s a ‘dump the bathwater’ – but it seems they’re leaving behind a bathtub with a big hole in the bottom!