Would you like to hear a poorly kept secret? I do not like President Trump.
Never have.
He has always struck me as a narcissistic blowhard in love with the sound of his own voice. (Didn’t we just get rid of our previous president with those same issues?) Anyway, it made me unwilling to trust Trump, especially after seeing the sophomoric way he conducted himself through the Republican campaign towards his fellow candidates in 2016.
It left me with a conundrum. I wasn’t willing to vote for the arrogant bully who seemed to be running for president just to erect another edifice to his ego. At the same time, I CERTAINLY wasn’t going to vote for the congenital liar and constitutionally-adverse crook in the Mao pant-suits. The only tax-payer federal building Hillary deserved to be in was one where she could wear government-provided orange pant suits; not the White House.
I decided to vote for Darrell Castle of the Constitution Party for president in 2016 accordingly. (I know… I know… it was a throw away vote, but my conscience could not let me vote for either of the two major party candidates.)
Then something happened over the course of the next four years of Trump’s presidency. Yes, his cringe-worthy tweets and his often-unstatesmanlike behavior were over the top and absolutely unpalatable, to say the least. However, President Trump’s executive instincts in governing the greatest nation in the history of humankind were uncannily on target. He really was determined to drain the swamp of its partisan denizens of both parties. He wasn’t about to let the establishment tell him differently.
Over the course of his Presidency, he really did make America great again in so many fundamentally important ways.
First, he sought to protect our country from nations that were prone to terrorism against us when their “immigrants and travelers” could not be vetted. He took the Obama administration’s list of countries and expanded it appropriately. This, of course, was met with cries of xenophobia and Islamophobia by the left and their sycophantic Democrat institutionalized media. (or “Dim” for short.)
Trump began appointing well-qualified and constitutionally-minded jurists to the federal courts who would adjudicate cases according to the law and the constitution instead of legislating from the bench. He even appointed what appears to be three solid constitutionalists to the Supreme Court. This may be the only bulwark left to protect the nation from the coming leftist tidal wave. Of course, “Big Guy” Biden has insinuated that he will pack the Supreme Court to nullify any right of center (constitutional) rulings that may disseminate from that bench. (He didn’t think we citizens deserved to know for sure though during his campaign.)
Trump also drew down American troops and got us out of conflicts throughout the world stage, all the while protecting our national security interests.
He got us out of the execrable Iran nuclear deal that paid off the State Department’s leading sponsor of state terrorism that allowed Iran to continue to pursue nuclear technology “for peaceful means”. Obama sent millions of dollars to the Shia terrorist state actors and Trump sent a guided missile to take out Iranian general Soleimani, whom was responsible for executing much of the terrorism against the United States and the west. On cue, the left denounced the killing of this evil terrorist by Trump.
Trump was the first president to actually hold China accountable for the trade practices, intellectual theft, and monetary manipulation done by this dangerous regime. In doing so Trump brought back myriads of jobs, particularly in the manufacturing sector. Jobs that President Obama told us were gone forever.
Of course, Obama also told us that a sub-two percent growth in yearly GDP was the new normal and it was not possible for him to improve upon his worst economic “recovery” in U.S. history. And Obama did not lie. He indeed could not improve that. Trump could though. And he did. He brought record economic growth, reduction in unnecessary and burdensome regulations, and historic lows in unemployment for Americans. Americans of color saw some of the greatest improvements in job opportunities and economic growth. Where Obama gauged success by how many millions of people were partaking of government subsidies and hand-outs, President Trump redefined success by helping millions of people find the dignity of being self-sufficient and no longer slaves to the federal government.
He oversaw record stock market gains, and then recovery after COVID-19 came to town. This helped scores of millions of middle-class families with their retirement plans as business boomed.
Trump’s energy policies made America energy independent for the first time in my life time that I recall. Gasoline and energy prices came down dramatically, thus helping the poorest in our country the most. His policies also created myriads of good-paying jobs as well.
President Trump also sought to secure our borders from illegal aliens seeking to enter our country. He begged congress to help revamp our immigration laws to adapt to new realities, but all to no avail. In the meantime, he built a wall along the southern border in order to ensure that would-be immigrants to the United States did so through legal means. This, of course, is racist too to the leftists that wanted to further increase their voting blocs. Ironically the only wall that President Big Guy is building is around the capitol to protect himself during his inauguration.
The irony is Trump wants to build a wall to protect Americans and Biden builds a wall to protect himself FROM Americans.
Trump also did what every administration of either party has failed to do. He has overseen peace blossom in the Middle East with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan all normalizing relations with Israel. There are at least a half a dozen more majority-Muslim nations that are similarly looking to do so in the near future.
This was something that the “experts” in the U.N., our State Department, and other so-called people in the know proclaimed was impossible without first addressing the Palestinian issue. President Trump refused to give in to the intransigent and often unreasonable demands of the Palestinians and moved forward with his plans anyway. He supported Israel’s annexation of the Golan heights from where terrorist attacks on Israel were launched with mortar and rocket fire. He then did what many past presidents talked about doing. He moved the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to the capital of Israel in Jerusalem. When he ignored the tantrums from the corrupt Palestinian leadership and simply moved ahead, he showed the world how irrelevant they were to bringing about a long-awaited peace in the region.
I could continue with scores of major accomplishments achieved under President Trump’s administration. He removed us from the job-killing and socialistic Paris Climate fiasco. He removed obstacles and fast-tracked multiple companies coming out with Covid19 vaccines in less than a year’s time. (Something the “experts” once again said was impossible.) He was responsible for the First Step Act which removed inequities in sentencing laws that disproportionately affected black Americans. He was responsible for us being a net exporter of crude oil and energy instead of an importer. He scrapped NAFTA and renegotiated a far better trade deal with our north American partners of Canada and Mexico. Trump got many NATO members to pick up their share of the tab as they are obligated to do in our mutual defenses. President Trump looked at future vulnerabilities and created the new military branch of the Space Force. And of course, President Trump cut economy-draining and job killing taxes and regulations.
The result has been a far stronger and safer America for everyone, despite all of the leftist naysayers and bad faith actors to the contrary. Indeed, they seem to hate him all the more because of his great successes.
I decided to judge Trump by his actions and the fruits of his labors. He put America first. The lies from the media, censorship and manipulation by Big Tech, and deep state socialists on the left have all conspired to unsaddle him so as to continue down their path to a “benevolent” big brother nanny state. What could possibly go wrong here?
Yep, I still don’t like Trump, but he did indeed put America first for ALL AMERICANS. His actions outweighed his mouth.
Too bad there are tens of millions of Americans that have bought into the big lies from the left. Our country will suffer greatly for it in the next four years accordingly as the economy will tank and our freedoms will be infringed upon in even greater magnitude. The head of the corrupt Biden crime family will not reign long though, I suspect. Kamala cannot wait, I am sure. Their “leadership” will surely show us how good we did have it under the boorish Trump though. Of that, I am certain.
In 2020 I voted for President Trump because despite his many
faults, like him, I love our country too.
