A 20-year-old college student who voted for President Donald Trump told Fox News co-host Jessica Tarlov he was frustrated with the level of chaos in the new administration just two weeks into the president’s term.
Tarlov, a liberal co-host of The Five, revealed on her podcast Raging Moderates last week that the “college student from the Midwest” said the new Trump administration was not what he was anticipating.
Tarlov said the unnamed college student emailed her saying, “As someone who voted for Trump… you have been communicating a lot of frustrations I have been feeling alongside some family and friends who did not expect all the chaos.”
“It only took two weeks,” Tarlov said. “This level of chaos, for him to feel strongly enough that he would write that down.”
Among those frustrations are Trump’s 10 percent tariffs on Chinese imports – something the student anticipates will impact his family’s small business because all of their products are made in China.
Tarlov wrote on X that she anticipates the student’s comments are “only the beginning,” and other Trump voters will regret voting for the Republican.
In his first three weeks in office, Trump has signed 65 executive orders including implementing his mass deportation program, restricting immigration across the U.S.–Mexico border, axing all diversity, equity and inclusion programs and barring transgender minors from obtaining gender-affirming healthcare.
Even before Trump was elected in November, it was expected that he would aggressively overhaul the government to suit his agenda. However, the speed at which he is trying to do so – and with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency – was not anticipated by some..
Early polling indicates most Americans are content with Trump’s administration aggressively rolling out his agenda.
A CBS News / YouGov poll found that 70 percent of people believe Trump is doing what he promised on the campaign trail. At the same time, most people think Musk or DOGE shouldn’t have the vast authority that it does.
Musk, a billionaire and unelected political appointee, has seemingly given massive authority to overhaul the federal workforce and slash government spending.
As a result, decades-old departments are being axed without transition plans in place, federal judges are pausing and unpausing various government programs, workers are standing on thin ice, lawmakers and state attorney generals are challenging every attempt to dismantle the administrative state and Democrats are protesting much of the sweeping change.
