While Biden sleeps and Harris weeps, Trump goes hard as a mf.
“All the forces that were coming for him have been defanged and obliterated,”

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/22/trump-second-term-transition-differences-00190775
‘He’s Still Standing and Everyone Else Is Exhausted’: Our Insiders on How Trump Has Changed

To the journalists who have studied Donald Trump longest, the second transition looks a whole lot different from eight years ago.

Donald Trump — unbridled and emboldened, his control of the Republican Party all but complete, canny about the mechanics of government in a way he was not eight years back when his first election was such a shock — is headed again to the White House. But how might this tour differ from the last tumultuous term?

To get a better sense of what is to come — in the Senate confirmation hearings for his controversial Cabinet picks, his first 100 days and beyond — I convened a quartet of POLITICO colleagues who’ve watched and covered Trump from the get-go: Anita Kumar, Eli Stokols, Kyle Cheney and Meridith McGraw. Their composite take: Trump is Trump, always has been, always will be — fractious, breakneck, unscripted — but after Jan. 6, two failed assassination attempts and an array of prosecutions (and convictions) didn’t stop him from getting reelected by a larger margin than the first time he won, he has, they say, a different sort of confidence and nerve. The GOP establishment is no longer so much trying to control him as he is testing the absolute limits of its willingness and ability to stand up to him.

It’s a moment that’s in some sense reminiscent of points in his past that ultimately led to trouble for Trump — Icarus-like inclinations that have made for scrapes he’s had to work hard to survive. At least for now, though, barreling toward what promises to be a contentious four or more years, the 45th and now 47th president is proceeding with an air of untouchability.