Charlie Sykes: “Conventional political analyses do not come close to describing the way our world has been turned on its head. Yes, the GOP lost its spine and its balls; Democrats flailed; the electorate realigned. The entertainment wing of the GOP routed the establishment. Much of the rest of the media has been enshittified.”

“But that really doesn’t capture the velocity or the scope of the transformation. It’s not just our politics. America has become dumber, crueler, crazier, and more violent. To much of the rest of the world, we have become unrecognizable.”

New York Times: “It has been 10 years now, as of Monday, since Donald Trump descended to the lobby of his namesake tower to announce his campaign for president. Ten years of jaw-dropping, woke-busting, scandal-defying, status quo-smashing politics that have transformed America for good or ill in profoundly fundamental ways.”

“In those 10 years, Mr. Trump has come to define his age in a way rarely seen in America, more so than any president of the past century other than Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, even though he has never had anywhere near their broad public support.”

“Somehow the most unpopular president in the history of polling has translated the backing of a minority of Americans into the most consequential political force of modern times, rewriting all of the rules along the way.”

Aaron Blake: The 10 biggest ways Trump has changed our politics.

Playbook: “It’s 10 years to the day that Trump descended that famous golden elevator in New York’s Trump Tower and announced he was running for president. That slow ride down, that first boisterous, rambling press conference; other surreal moments that were met with shrugs of amusement at the time but can now be seen as a turning point in America’s history.”

“Trump has dominated the decade that followed — unpredictable, inescapable, among the most consequential political figures of our lives. Nobody saw it coming.”

“Donald Trump is considering the campus of Florida Atlantic University for a presidential library, on a site where he has been offered free land, as planning begins for the MAGA mecca he eschewed during his first term,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“After leaving office in 2020, Trump refused to give serious consideration to a library and focused instead on his political comeback. Aides said there was an unspoken rule not to talk about a presidential library because it would signal Trump’s political career was over. Having achieved his return to the White House, he now wants a Trump-size presidential center to commemorate his time at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.”

“If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed — and we will deserve it.”

— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), on X, in May 2016.

Canadian Sen. Patrick Brazeau challenged Donald Trump Jr. to a charity boxing match over the “bogus” tariffs implemented this week by his father, President Trump, The Hill reports.

Politico: “Shortly before the Covid-19 pandemic began in the United States in 2020, Musk traveled to Washington to meet with Trump about building a Tesla gigafactory in Mexico instead of Texas — a plan Trump had caught wind of and had invited Musk to the West Wing to discuss.”

“Before the meeting, Musk and an associate met with Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and then were hosted by Tim Pataki, who served as assistant to the president and the deputy director of the White House Office of Public Liaison. A person who was within earshot of Musk later recounted that Musk called Trump ‘a fucking moron’ behind his back while in the White House.”

“Rudy Giuliani has ‘fully satisfied’ a $148 million judgment won by two Georgia election workers who said he defamed them by falsely claiming they helped steal the 2020 presidential election from Donald Trump, a Monday court filing shows,” Reuters reports.

“Terms have not been disclosed, but Giuliani said after the settlement that he would keep his apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, his condominium in Palm Beach, Florida, and his personal belongings. He promised not to defame the plaintiffs again.”

“It’s getting even a little excessive for me.”

— White nationalist Nick Fuentes, reacting to Steve Bannon Nazi-like salute at CPAC.

“Columbia University has hired President Trump’s former secretary of state to teach diplomacy, decision-making and organizational leadership, starting in March,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Kristen Brown: “Donald Trump’s first term saw a great deal of political polarization. Right- and left-leaning Americans disagreed about environmental regulation and immigration. They disagreed about vaccines and reproductive rights. And they disagreed about whether or not to have children: As Republicans started having more babies under Trump, the birth rate among Democrats fell dramatically.”

Quinta Jurecic: “Trump has seized on his reelection as an opportunity to rewrite the story of January 6. Just hours after he assumed the presidency, he granted pardons and commutations to the insurrectionists who broke into the Capitol, calling their prosecutions a ‘grave national injustice.’ The deletion of the Justice Department’s page on January 6 is a triumph for the insurrectionists whose crimes were erased, and for Republicans more generally, many of whom would simply rather not talk about the late unpleasantness.”

“But in the long term, the truth of what happened will prove difficult to bury. The roughly six hours during which rioters breached the Capitol are some of the most exhaustively documented in recent history, thanks to the many participants who filmed themselves in action and the investigative efforts of both the Justice Department and the House January 6 committee. Even Trump can’t wipe that away.”

“The parent company of President Donald Trump’s social networking site Truth Social says it lost $400.9 million last year and its annual revenue declined 12% to $3.6 million,” the AP reports.

Vanity Fair: “The towering New York University freshman has become a Manhattan curiosity and a national symbol while hardly uttering a public word.”