‘Safe to be a white male again’: how conservative media covered Trump’s first week

The right is ecstatic about the end of the Biden era - but remains polarized about some of Trump's decisions

Americans really do inhabit two worlds: some shed tears of sadness at the advent of Donald Trump's second presidency. Others cried, too - with joy.

Across the conservative, post-liberal" and alternative media spheres, journalists, pundits and some social media circles celebrated the end of the Biden era with the enthusiasm of rebels toppling the relics of a collapsing dictatorship. As Trump swore his presidential oath, the writer Walter Kirn, a pro-Trump, anti-establishment agitator on X, grandiloquently declared: This is a revolution against a corrupt ancien regime."