He will need to sell voters on a tarnished Trump brand.

A Virginia judge, empowered by quirks in maritime law, has overseen the salvage of the remote shipwreck for decades. Now her rule is being challenged.

“When he feels cornered, when he feels attacked, he fights back,” the columnist Carlos Lozada says of Donald Trump, who is now entering the lame-duck phase of his presidency. Columnists from across Times Opinion share their predictions for what the final two years of Trump’s term might look like — and they’re not pretty.