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John Fetterman: Stop “Freaking Out” About Trump

An unusually candid conversation with Pennsylvania’s borderline heretical Democratic senator about working with Trump, winning back white men, and when the pendulum will swing back.

John Fetterman
"I’m concerned we haven’t paid attention to what happened. Have we looked up at the scoreboard and been like, By the way, we lost?" John Fetterman tells Puck's Tara Palmeri. Photo: Allison Robbert/AFP/Getty Images
Tara Palmeri
February 7, 2025

Even among the legion of Democrats preaching the centrist gospel in the wake of Trump’s blunt-force victory over Washington, John Fetterman seems uniquely unconcerned about pointing fingers at his colleagues, offending resistance liberals, or shrugging off the president’s wrecking-ball approach to policy. He was the lone Democratic senator to journey to Mar-a-Lago, to vote to confirm Pam Bondi for A.G., and, most recently, to signal any openness to Trump’s harebrained proposition that the U.S. “take over” Gaza—something even his Republican colleagues found unamusing.