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By Mike Allen · Oct 20, 2025

Good Monday afternoon. Today's newsletter, edited by Sam Baker, is 452 words, a 1.5-min. read. Thanks to Sheryl Miller for copy editing.

 
 
1 big thing: Betting against Trump
 
Illustration of a man standing resolutely on top of a stack of poker chips.

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Despite all of the activity of the second Trump administration, betting that President Trump will follow through on the things he says he'll do is still a losing proposition.

  • That's the conclusion from a Bloomberg analysis of activity on Polymarket, the site that lets users gamble on politics and other real-world events. (Polymarket was banned for a while in the U.S., but it's set to begin operations soon.)
  • Those bets are usually up-or-down propositions — will an event happen, or will it not happen?