These are what we think will be the top trends and stories in 2025, in descending order.
10. “Superman'' will be the highest-grossing movie at the box office.
Some will accuse me of jumping ahead with a home run pick, and I'm a huge fan of The Last Son of Krypton, but the truth is this is based on data. James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy films have averaged $360 million at the box office, making them one of the top five grossing movies of any year. This teaser trailer became the most-watched trailer in the history of Warner Bros., one of the most profitable studios in Hollywood history. It's also the fifth-biggest online debut for a trailer in the Internet era, with all four upcoming films grossing $1 billion at the box office. Finally, there's the vibe. We've been lamenting for years that we're a broken culture more drawn to the eternally broken Batman than the altruistic Superman, but after this last election, and given the huge viewing numbers for the teaser trailer… We seem ready to bounce back. Also.
9. The Detroit Lions will face the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl 59.
They have been the two best teams in the NFL all season, and this would be a historic feat for both franchises. The Chiefs will be seeking the first three-peat in the Super Bowl era, and the generationally underdog Lions will finally become the last original pro football franchise to compete in America's biggest sporting event.
8. Respected celebrities will come forward to say they have been abducted by or have communicated with extraterrestrials.
Initially, we thought this would happen a year ago, but fleets of mysterious drones have been flying over New Jersey skies and elsewhere, foreshadowing that UFO psychological operations will be back on the menu in the new year. are.
7. Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift are finally getting married in perhaps the biggest celebrity wedding of the year.
And Travis made his own cultural statement by adopting the Taylor last name as his own, rather than taking the traditional stance or hyphenating Taylor to rival teammate Harrison Butker. will try to make it.
6. Trump will end the Ukraine war.
Trump proved adept at brokering peace deals in his first term, and one of the headlines in the first year of his second term will likely be the same. Russia will be given some territory, Ukraine will be reduced but still sovereign, and there will be a deal that could have been struck two years ago if both sides had wanted to.
5. At least one scandal or controversy will later prove or definitely suspect that AI is fake.
With AI-generated memes, photos, and videos that look completely real, we've finally arrived at a time when it's very difficult to tell what's real online and what's not. The technology will be weaponized because it is too attractive to want to be weaponized.
4. We will finally know what the government really knows about the JFK assassination.
I believe that President Trump will once and for all lift the seal on the National Archives on the most controversial event in American history. He had already vowed to do so during the campaign, and that was before the zeitgeist tried to make him JFK for the second time last year. So if Mr. Trump needed an extra incentive to fulfill his campaign promise, he now has it.
3. President Trump's approval rating will reach 55% at one point, probably within the first half of this year.
For a long time, I was convinced that the zeitgeist would try to alienate the Trump presidency from the jump, perhaps by shoving this entire precarious economy onto him at once. But the more I think about it, the more I think there's a good chance something like that will happen next year when it's another election year (like 2020 was with the coronavirus). Additionally, I feel that the majority of the country really wants to have hope again, and Mr. Trump seems much better prepared from a governing standpoint than when he first took office. According to Gallup, Trump's highest approval rating so far in his first term as president was 49%.
2. As the year progresses, managing the Republican coalition will prove to be President Trump's biggest challenge.
Another reason I think the zeitgeist may reach its moment in 2025 is how unstable the current Republican coalition is in Washington, DC. Republicans have the thinnest House majority imaginable and the weakest leadership imaginable. A young, stupid clone of Ditch McConnell now runs a Senate that is mostly infected with RINOs. There are widespread fundamental disagreements on the right, and we are already seeing rifts forming in the weeks before President Trump took office. I think we will initially get off to a good start, on track based on President Trump's leadership and mission, but ultimately our worldview is our destiny. And there are fundamental worldview differences here on the right. The inconvenient truth is that the Republican base does not want the same kind of governance as many elected Republicans in Washington, D.C.
1. The Trump-Musk partnership will be tested early and often.
We already saw some of that in December, both in terms of the budget and H-1B visas. Such a partnership has never existed in American history, and perhaps in the history of the world. Essentially, the most famous man in history teamed up with the richest man in history to save the freest country in history. It would be difficult enough for these two to manage their egos at the same time in the best of circumstances. However, between competing factions within the coalition government and a fake news media that has been feeding Yoko Ono all over the place and creating tensions that didn't exist before, in order to win the last election, The only thing more difficult to build this partnership would be to maintain it now that the election has been won.
