He’s only been back in the White House for 159 days, but this week will be a hard one for President Donald Trump to top in his remaining 1,302 days.
The clearest signal came from the Washington Post on Saturday when a top columnist said, “We are living in the Trump era.”
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Just consider what happened this week: The U.S. military struck Iran’s nuclear sites, setting the stage for a ceasefire between the terrorist nation and Israel, inflation reports came in muted, the Supreme Court delivered big wins, and it looks like the president will get his One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
This was the BEST week of the Trump presidency (maybe any presidency!) ????
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) June 28, 2025
✅SCOTUS win on activist judges
✅Stock market at record-high
✅Israel-Iran ceasefire
✅Unprecedented Rowanda-Congo peace deal
✅gas prices at 4-year-low
Not tired of winning. pic.twitter.com/dUcr4ttozZ
The Washington Examiner’s Main Street columnist, Salena Zito, said Trump is a singular president of consequence. “To date, President Franklin Roosevelt has had the longest impact on American politics in our short history,” Zito wrote. “Trump will exceed that, especially if he continues to have two-week stretches such as these.”
For our weekly White House Report Card, Democratic pollster John Zogby said Trump remains the darling of the GOP and that more voters backed his military strikes in Iran. But he added that the president is “bleeding” independents, a possible midterm congressional election problem.
Conservative grader Jed Babbin said the week was a winner and can have only one big, beautiful grade of A-plus.
John Zogby
Grade: C-
It was another complicated week for President Donald Trump.
By a margin of 50% to 40%, our new John Zogby Strategies poll showed voters supporting the U.S. attack on Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities. But the voters were also very clear that they do not support any escalation or any protracted involvement. More (44%) felt that the president’s actions would make the situation with Iran worse than would resolve the matter (38%).
Overall, Trump’s approval dipped down to 45%, with a majority of 53% disapproving.
Despite leading voices like blogger Tucker Carlson, former Trump aide Steve Bannon and MAGA favorite Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) strongly condemning the strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, 85% of GOP voters approve of the president overall. His biggest problem is that he is bleeding independents, with only 35% giving him a positive rating and 61% a negative rating. The president gets his lowest ratings yet on handling immigration (49%), the economy (43%), cutting the size of government (45%), his diplomatic style (42%), tariffs (42%), and the Israel/Iran crisis (44%).
Trump won victories from his Supreme Court, which opened the door for his administration to deport ‘Dreamers’ and keeping books that feature LGBTQ rights from schools. But his ‘big beautiful bill’ seems to be getting smaller and uglier every day.
Also, this was not a good week for billionaires as a socialist Muslim won a long-shot victory in the NYC Democratic primary, partly on the promise to raise taxes among the highest income earners, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos starred in a clown show wedding in Venice.
Jed Babbin
Grade: A+
“Operation Midnight Hammer” — the U.S. strike against Iran’s nuclear weapons development sites — and the NATO summit left President Donald Trump with two big scores this week. The record is dimmed only by the progress (such as it is) of the budget reconciliation bill, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
The “Midnight Hammer” operation, in which B-2 Stealth bombers hit Iran’s three principal nuclear development sites (Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz) was a high-risk, high-payoff op, which Air Force pilots, navigators, and weapons officers pulled off flawlessly. They dropped the MOPs — 30,000-pound ground penetrating bombs — in about 120 seconds over the targets. Trump insisted that they obliterated Iran’s bomb program, and the Iranians said the attack didn’t even scratch it. The truth is in between. Dropping those huge bombs must have caused enormous damage to the Iranian facilities. How much no one will probably ever know.
No, the price of oil didn’t soar to new heights: it remained stable. And the stock markets continued to rise. The ayatollahs can come out of their hidey-holes thanks to a cease-fire agreement Trump engineered.
???? Daddy’s home… Hey, hey, hey, Daddy.
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 26, 2025
President Donald J. Trump attended the NATO Summit in The Hague, Netherlands. pic.twitter.com/asJb5FD2Ii
At the NATO summit, “Daddy” Trump — as he was referred to by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte — forced the NATO members to agree to spend 5% of their gross domestic product on defense. Some will, some won’t. Spain is already weaseling out of it with Germany, France, Canada (and others) to follow. Nevertheless, it’s a big win for Trump.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act continues to be dragged through the Senate. Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth McDonough has already ruled against parts of it, blocking some of Trump’s agenda. The bill will probably pass by July 4, but without major parts of Trump’s agenda, which could be passed later by other legislation.
To top off the week, Trump scored some major victories at the Supreme Court. The biggest of all is the court’s ruling in the birthright citizenship case that “universal injunctions” — which liberal judges have used in nationwide judgments to block Trump’s agenda — are probably illegal and beyond any court’s authority. This frees up Trump’s immigration, spending and anti-transsexual policies. This win is enormous, beyond what can be assimilated quickly.
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John Zogby is the founder of the Zogby Survey and senior partner at John Zogby Strategies. His latest book is Beyond the Horse Race: How to Read Polls and Why We Should. His podcast with son, managing partner, and pollster Jeremy Zogby can be heard here. Follow him on X @ZogbyStrategies.
Jed Babbin is a Washington Examiner contributor and former deputy undersecretary of defense in the administration of President George H.W. Bush. Follow him on X @jedbabbin.