Trump: 1 -- Crime, Filth, and Wokeness: 0
In reaction to a horrendous attack on a former DOGE staffer by a violent gang of youths in DC, President Trump posted in part on Truth Social: “Crime in Washington, D.C., is totally out of control…If D.C. doesn’t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City, and run this City how it should be run, and put criminals on notice that they’re not going to get away with it anymore…If this continues, I am going to exert my powers, and FEDERALIZE this City…”
Within a couple of hours of the President posting that message I had five different people send it my way. All saying the virtually same thing: “I was just thinking that.” Because Trump is the leader tens of millions of Americans were hoping and praying for, don’t be surprised to see the National Guard patrolling the streets of our nation’s very troubled capital. This President will walk the walk for the good of the country.
Prior to that Trump had posted another “I was just thinking that” gem. This time about the heretofore always highly suspect U.S. Census. Said the President in part:
“I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024. People who are in our Country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS…”
Gee, who wouldn’t want only certified U.S. citizens being counted in a census tracking U.S. citizens. Oh, that’s right…the Democrats and much of the mainstream media don’t want that. Why? Well, as White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller just stated: “This is such a fundamental issue for our democracy…depending on how you count it, and no one really knows the number for sure — but just being conservative, Democrats have stolen 20 to 30 House seats by counting illegal aliens in the census.”
One of the major reasons Trump was elected in 2016 was because tens of millions of Americans from across the political and socioeconomic spectrum were not only sick and tired – literally in many cases – of the entrenched elites from both sides playing them, but were desperate for someone with the courage, means, and platform to speak his mind without fear of reprisal by those elites or the special interests who controlled them.
Trump really is the “common sense” and “pragmatic” President. For decades, he has instantly cut right through the nonsense to figure out the best and most expedient way to make a deal. Oftentimes by articulating what others were too scared – or intimidated – to say.
Back in 1987, while a writer in the White House of President Ronald Reagan, I picked up a copy of then New York City businessman Donald Trump’s book “The Art of the Deal” and honestly couldn’t put it down. Those who have dismissed that massive bestseller over the years have either never read it; don’t understand the real business world; or are certified Trump haters hugging an emotional support animal while speed-dialing their therapist.
In many real and quite effective ways, Mr. Trump’s campaign for president in 2016 was all about the real-world experience he brought to the table. Experience and bravado which did cause tens of millions of Americans from across the political and socioeconomic spectrum to turn away from the entrenched elites, the corrupt politicians, the special interests, and the hate-spewing pundits from both political parties to hear his solutions to their problems.
Think about it: for basically all our lives, we have not had a true, massively successful businessman occupying the Oval Office of the White House. Much to the detriment of us all.
Joe Biden was a shady fifty-plus-year career politician; Barack Obama was created in Chicago and then sent forth by the Democratic Party; George W. Bush played at business before engaging in a war which took hundreds of thousands of lives; Bill Clinton was a longtime student before becoming a longtime politician; George H.W. Bush was a true war hero but then in many ways, a professional diplomat before becoming president; the great Ronald Reagan was an actor, organizer, and spokesperson; and then governor; Jimmy Carter was in the Navy and struggled as a peanut farmer; Gerald Ford was mostly a professional politician; Richard Nixon the same; Lyndon Johnson the same…and so on.
It is precisely President Trump’s extensive real-world experience – and multiple successes -- which do allow him to see the positives and negatives in issues and policies which others routinely miss. Mostly because they have little or no real-world business experience; are entrenched elites living in bubbles; or were captured long ago by the various special interests seeking to game the system for themselves and their clients.
Be it federalizing DC – or ordering the National Guard onto the streets -- to make it safe for its citizens and visitors; demanding an honest census; calling for paper ballots; same day voting; the acknowledgment and removal of the tripwires which could trigger WWIII; calling out windmills and the entire “Green” energy Ponzi scheme; forcing Europe to stop ripping off U.S. taxpayers; cleaning up college sports; renaming the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” or a host of other common sense pragmatic policies, Trump really has become the “I was just thinking that” President to tens of millions of Americans.
Real experience delivers real and lasting solutions. The “Trump Effect” is a thing.
Douglas MacKinnon is a former White House and Pentagon official and author of the book: The 56 – Liberty Lessons from those who risked all to sign The Declaration of Independence. Follow him @DougOfSkye.
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