Welcome Back, President Trump
Recovering from the flu gave me a good excuse to spend last Monday watching the inauguration festivities for President-elect Donald Trump to once again return to the White House. It was a historic occasion as only one former president has ever been returned to the White House after having lost an election. John F. Harris, the global editor-in-chief for Politico, has put out an article stating Trump’s victory in 2024 is proof that Trump has dominated American politics for a lengthy period of time and will likely be numbered among America’s most consequential leaders. “He is a force of history,” Harris wrote. Leftist heads likely exploded as Harris wrote that Trump is “holding power under circumstances in which reasonable people cannot deny a basic fact: He is the greatest American figure of his era.”
Having served as president for four years previously and having another four years to contemplate a return to that high office, Donald Trump was uniquely prepared to return to the White House. Trump’s second inaugural address was plain-spoken and to the point at a time when few things are. It was an excellent speech. Trump pledged, “We will forge a society that is color-blind and merit-based.” It was the death knell of DEI, which has nothing to do with merit.
Trump’s speech was a forthright repudiation of the previous four years. President Trump spoke of pride in being an American and pride in our country, something patriots appreciate. The crisis at our southern border, the rising crime rate in the country, and the weaponization of our own justice system. Trump talked to Americans like we were adults, precisely the opposite of how Joe Biden and his administration operated.
Immediately, Trump began delivering on the promises he made as a candidate, beginning to fulfill the platform on which he won the election. Trump declared an emergency at our Southern border, deployed the military to that same border and designated the drug cartels as the terrorist organizations they are. Trump, with a sweep of his pen, revoked the security clearances of the 51 ex-intelligence officials who lied when they stated the Hunter Biden laptop was nothing but “Russian disinformation.” Trump rolled back the federal DEI requirements imposed by Joe Biden and knocked the EV mandate in the head. At the end of the day, President Trump signed almost 100 new executive orders.
On his first day in office, Trump made six speeches, attended three inaugural balls, signed a huge stack of executive orders rolling back the Biden agenda, and held a 90-minute press conference at the Resolute Desk in the White House. Trump is the same age that Joe Biden was when the latter was first inaugurated. Clearly, everyone ages differently. Trump’s press conference allowed him to speak to more reporters than Biden has in a month of Sundays.
Sadly, Joe Biden left office the same way he entered the White House. It is one thing to disagree with the policies of a particular politician, one can still respect that person’s genuine belief in his or her own stand. Unfortunately, Biden, his administration and the legacy media just flat-out lied for the entirety of his presidency. Biden promised to unite us and did exactly the opposite; Biden promised to govern from the center and proceeded to go as far left as he possibly could. Biden and the media insisted high inflation eating up the paychecks of working Americans was a figment of our imaginations. Biden and the media said inflation, if it existed, was “transitory.” Biden and the media said there was no crisis at our southern border. Biden promised he would never pardon his son. Fifteen minutes before leaving office, Joe Biden pardoned every member of his family, Anthony Fauci, Liz Cheney, and several others.
Biden’s Justice Department was quick to state that those January 6 prisoners who had accepted a pardon from President Trump were admitting guilt.
If that is the standard, it certainly applies to the Biden family, Liz Cheney, and Anthony Fauci. The Biden administration and the legacy media treated Americans with cynicism and expectation we were all stupid and had a memory of perhaps ten minutes.
Biden’s boundless hypocrisy remained his most steadfast characteristic until the very end. The same worn-out puddinghead who warned the country about billionaire oligarchs bestowed the highest civilian award on George Soros, who has singlehandedly done more to destroy this country than any other single individual in the minds of many Americans. The “decency” of Joe Biden existed only in the minds of his complicit allies in the media who routinely reported narrative and ignored and tried to destroy those who spoke truth to power. From the very beginning, Joe Biden lied about the influence peddling of his son and family. The very same Democrats and leftist media morons who now squall about retaliation and lawfare are the same people who cheered the effort to disembowel Trump financially and doom him politically by weaponizing the judicial system.
The recent court decision finding CNN guilty of defamation is but one of the woes of the network. Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid are kicking their little feet and squalling to a viewership smaller than some cable access shows. If they ever had a time, it has long since passed. Both Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid would kill for an audience the size of one Sponge Bob episode and when MSNBC sinks beneath the waves for the final time there will be few tears shed for a network that valued narrative over news and never reported anything aside from failed ideology.
