Why is the Maga project teetering? Because not even Trump supporters voted for this dysfunction | Moira Donegan

The president’s fixation on culture-war grievances is a colossal misreading of voters who just want prices to come down.

He has forgotten why he was re-elected

In a carefully coordinated publicity stunt last week, Donald Trump received a McDonald’s takeaway order from delivery driver https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/14/trump-doordash-delivery-grandma-mcdonalds">Sharon Simmons, a 58-year-old grandmother of 10 from Arkansas.

Simmons, a Trump supporter and advocate of his “no tax on tips” policy, testified before Congress last year that she began working as a delivery driver for the takeout app DoorDash in order to help cover the cost of her husband’s cancer treatment.

The photo opp should have been a slam dunk for Trump: a simple way to promote one of his policies in the company of a sympathetic advocate and beneficiary.

But Trump, in characteristic fashion, could not resist the urge to insert a non sequitur about one of his own grievances: trans women athletes. “Do you think men should play in women’s sports?” Trump https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/doordash-trump-transgender-athletes">asked Simmons. “I really don’t have an opinion on that,” she replied, showing considerably more message discipline than the president. “I’m here about ‘no tax on tips’.”

Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist