This is one thing. I'm David Rind, and after nearly a year of Trump 2.0, the reviews are in.

It's just kind of a steady drip, drip, drip of things that American people and even people who are favorable towards Trump are finding that they don't necessarily like.

Stick around.

I spoke to a lot of people this year who felt the direct impact of having President

Donald Trump back in the White House.

People like Helen Dew, a national parks employee, swept up in the chaos of the mass layoffs

executed by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.

It wasn't layoff language. It was firing language.

They had said that I hadn't performed my job duties.

And my supervisor, you know, was like, this is not even true.

People like Benjamin Kibler, a transgender service member who voluntarily separated from the Navy

after the Trump administration moved to kick out military personnel with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria.

Do you feel like a valued part of that history of the military as you kind of look back on things?

Um, no. The short answer is no.

And people like Giselle, an undocumented immigrant from Chicago, who asked we only use her first name because she was worried about being caught up in Trump's unprecedented and sometimes violent mass deportation push.

I'm not going to just sit here in my house and hide the next for years.

That's like what happened.

So I do take some measures to make sure that, you know, I'm safe.

But I also heard from people who were less pessimistic about Trump's second term.

People like Nevin Scalco from Illinois.

The level of encounters are significantly down and people generally know that it's not,

you know, an open border.

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