The fourth snow this season fell in my town in New Jersey on a day after Christmas day. During shoveling the snow, I have noticed a few animals tracks on the snow. Some tracks were easily recognizable as Squirrel’s, rabbit’s, and fox’s. Others were not.

When I look back this year 2025, I would like to quantify my feelings about this country’s track record of our well-being in 2025 under President Trump. Coincidentally I found the perfect article in the New York Times’ Op Ed page of 12/28/25, to answer my questions about what this administration has done to us. It was written by Steven Rattner, a contributing writer for the New York Times and a counselor to the Treasury secretary in the Obama administration.

Rattner listed ten (10) points in succinct easy-to-understand charts. He covered the first eleven months of Trump’s second term. The first list and its chart included the number of executive orders (total of 225) and a number of laws passed by this 119th congressional session. The second list included the number of lawsuits challenging Trump’s executive order and actions, breaking down by action blocked, pending, and still in effect. The Third one listed the size of the tax law that will add at least $3 trillion to the deficit. The Fourth covered Trump’s history of wide-swing tariff rates by months and its comparison with historic average effective tariff rates since 1900.

The Fifth exhibited the numbers and change trend of the monthly Southwestern border encounters since 2017. The sixth demonstrated the changes of unemployment rates since 2015 and the trend of monthly payroll growth since 2023. The seventh showed inflation rate variance between his election win in November 2024 and the latest prediction by Goldman Sacks as of December 2025. The Eight showed the trend of the Consumer Sentiment by party affiliation since 2019. The ninth showed an approval rating after first year of each administration since Carter. The tenth compared AI ChatGPT adaptation speed compared with mobile phones and internet, wondering if AI creates jobs or destroy them.

No matter what this administration argues with other fake data and demagogues, it seems to me that their track records are clearly molded in numbers and we don’t need snow to verify their tracks. However when the snow melts and tracks disappear, we tend to forget the damages made. Let’s keep in mind that we are in the midst of winter, but In the our current real political world, spring will not come automatically. What should I do to make the spring comes? What will you do?