Trump has proven in the course of his contentious presidency that he is the man for this era, and he stands alone in that distinction. He is a uniquely American leader: bright, bold, a tough fighter, tested and true to his values, a Yankee original. His qualities of character are obvious in the way he has run his administration—no entourages, no bloated staffs; he is a man who says what he means and means what he says, whether wrangling with Fake News, giving a speech on television, or holding forth on Twitter.
Even by billionaire standards, Trump is unusual: he’s a builder, a developer, a promoter, a reality TV star turned politician with his own brand of populism. Trump supporters love their standard-bearer because he is partly like them: he works hard, he talks straight, and he’s an unabashed optimist.
President Trump can be brash, sometimes frequently so. He is now the recognized champion of rough-and-tumble American free enterprise and capitalism. He is unafraid to thank God and pray for His help when the going gets tough—when the tests become vast, complex, and daunting even for him. When talking to the American people, he forgoes sugarcoating his language or his meaning. He talks in the direct, straightforward language of the plainspoken American, using short Anglo-Saxon words that carry meaning and weight and that resist obfuscation and create clarity.
This befuddles snarky radical Dems, cynical Fake News peddlers, and all those who believe only in Never: Never Trump, Never America, and Never God, Never Guns. President Trump is a devout believer in the possible. He’s a doer, a man of action, and he loves to taunt the sanctimonious stooges of the Left and their pedestrian thinking.
I have never seen a survey of what the Fake News media expect of him, but I’d wager they never dreamed for a moment that he would be the one to return God to the public square and arena. Maybe they thought he would make the middle class and all who aspire to it fashionable once again. But did they really think he would build the net worth of minority households and cut minority unemployment to the lowest levels ever? And start bringing home some of the manufacturing jobs that corporate America shipped off to cheap foreign labor markets?
His presidential achievements, his accomplishments, are now the stuff of history. And for good measure. He has also reduced the number of our troops in foreign countries and rebuilt the military, while building peace.
President Trump had presided over an economy with the richest markets in our history, our economy growing at rates former President Obama once called impossible. He had accomplished all this while reminding all Americans how exceptional we are, how blessed we are. Now he is focused on what he calls the Transition to Greatness.
He is leading the nation out of the darkest days of the plague that China and Xi Jinping unleashed on an unsuspecting world. The Wuhan virus was a deadly contagion that infected more than a million of our fellow citizens and killed more than a hundred thousand Americans and hundreds of thousands more around the world.
Dozens of our best and brightest researchers and physicians in bioscience and medicine are racing to create a vaccine. There is no question that they will be successful because that’s what Americans do, we succeed, and it took this president to remind us of this fact. President Trump leads by example. He never surrenders his faith in all that we can do and must do for this nation to succeed.
Incredibly, President Trump earned his place in history in just a little more than three years in office in his first term. And now we are asking him to do it all over again, and to do more. He was elected despite a conspiracy by the Deep State and radical Dems doing their worst to block him from winning the election of 2016. Then President Trump overcame three years of subversion, resistance, and obstruction by the RINOs and radical members of both parties, a criminally orchestrated investigation led by fools and traitors who were so brazen, arrogant, and corrupt that they tried to impeach a president who had just been exonerated by the special counsel.
The radical Dems’ impeachment farce collapsed quickly, and on February 5, 2020, the Senate acquitted him of the spurious charges concocted by the Party of Hate.
While the Dems tried and failed for a second time to carry out a coup against the Trump presidency, he had already moved on to the next crisis: he had implemented a travel ban against China to stop the virus from migrating to the United States. The deadly pandemic was the next great battle of his first term, fighting against what he called the invisible enemy: the novel coronavirus, which causes the disease covid-19.
Or, as I will always call it, the Wuhan virus.
As usual, he began his fight all but alone. Democrats, the left-wing media, and indeed many members of his administration and his party ridiculed his judgment and his decision to enforce the ban against the entry of people who had visited China in recent weeks. No matter, the ban saved American lives, perhaps more than a million.
It was one of President Trump’s greatest decisions. In the midst of crisis and a national emergency, he acted in the interest of all Americans, and against so-called expert second-guessers and, of course, the disloyal opposition and left-wing media. He may never get the full credit he deserves, or the thanks. But, as you probably noticed, President Trump would achieve great things even if he worked for only a thank you.
He does what he believes to be right for the United States. He speaks directly to his followers on Twitter and social media, and he speaks his truth. His followers, supporters, and voters love him for his fresh language, his direct and honest voice. There has never been a president like him.
Even as he campaigned in 2015 and 2016, the left-wing media and Republican establishment were shaken by his candor, as he attacked President Obama for negotiating the dumbest deal in history with the Iranians, and then also had the temerity to take on the Bush dynasty. Trump mocked George W. Bush and dismissed his brother Jeb by labeling him Low Energy Jeb, a tag that Jeb could never escape.
Trump ran over the field of sixteen GOP candidates and dominated the news with fresh takes and outrageous statements. And when he was on television, ratings soared. Cable networks couldn’t resist the Trump Train, and the Trump Train just kept building speed while the forgotten man and woman of America reveled in the Trump spectacle and Trump became the man to beat.
All of his rivals and almost every left-wing news outlet tried to destroy the candidate they had helped create, but their usually reliable politics of personal destruction had little effect. In fact, they may actually have helped fuel the Trump candidacy.
They trotted out their usual labels. The media called Trump a racist because he wanted to build a wall on the Mexican border to stop illegal immigration; they screamed, “Xenophobe!” because he wanted to end the United States’ decades of consecutive trade deficits with the world, and then they tried out “impossibly naive” because he wanted to stop outsourcing well-paying American jobs to cheap foreign labor markets.
I was among those cheering the president in every debate, in every rally, in every speech, because I shared his view of the importance of balanced trade and strong economic growth, the necessity of securing our borders to end illegal immigration, and to restore the United States’ preeminence in innovation and manufacturing. Bring jobs home instead of allowing the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable to strip the members of the American middle class of their jobs and ship them to China, India, or Romania.
I also knew how it feels to be attacked by the cynical, bitter Left and the global elites of the business establishment. President Trump offended the same Washington establishment and the elites of both parties, and I cheered louder than ever for him when it became clear that his voice was reaching tens of millions of Americans.
Trump’s campaign renewed my hopes for the country, and I was sure that, finally, at long last, working men and women and their families had a champion like no other. And when President Trump took on the endless wars of the Bush years and the Obama years, my hopes grew to near certainty that he would be elected president. He was clearly an American original, a great patriot, and fearless.
These are not qualities you run into often in the overly polite and sophisticated circles of the Washington and New York elites. There’s seldom much difference between a Republican and a Democrat in that rarefied air. And the wealthier and more powerful the dinner table guests, the more likely you are to be in the presence of global elites who expect the United States to be the world’s policeman, to run endless deficits to support endless wars.
The globalist elites are quite used to insisting on America Not First, sometimes America Not At All. One evening, my wife and I were at a dinner on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and the guest of honor was a former four-star general. He regaled the table with his view of the United States’ role in the world and why we must stay in Afghanistan.
After some time, much of it spent biting my lip, I questioned his version of events and what he saw as a necessity of giving up the precious lives of our young service members and trillions of dollars as the United States followed a strategy that apparently didn’t consider victory as the necessary objective for US generals.
He further extolled the virtues of the Long War Doctrine, and I drew a few gasps from the other guests when I said, “General, forgive me, but the long war doesn’t appear to be a doctrine. It’s more of a rationalization for a war without end, for a war that we haven’t won, and may never win.” For some reason the general took my statement as a personal offense and said, “In a different circumstance I would kick your ass.”
At that moment, I was grateful for the current circumstances and replied, “You know, General, you may be right, but I’m used to suffering consequences for telling the truth.” He rose from his chair and stormed away from the table, and I haven’t seen him since; probably just as well.
For the better part of two decades, there wasn’t much distinction among our leaders in their worldview. Whether they were military or corporate, finance, law, academia, or media, the globalist elites were part of a great gray orthodoxy that was impervious to challenge or change. Until Trump was elected. And hallelujah!
The president’s battles with the radical Dems, the Deep State, and RINOs of the last four years would have been exhausting for most of us. And then there are the adversaries outside our borders, all around the world. He has met every challenge, every threat, yet he is far from exhausted. He is exultant and appears stronger than ever. Though we have no right to ask this president to take on another term, I believe we have every reason to do so.
President Trump has become the indomitable American patriot, he is the hero of our time. He stands with every American, every family, and he has never backed off and never backed down. There is simply no one I’d rather have lead the nation than President Trump. He became a historic president in his first term. I can’t wait to see what he will do in his second!
All we are asking of him is to build the United States’ greatest economy not once but twice. You know he can.
All we ask of him is that he keeps winning and makes more beautiful history for generations of Americans to come. You know he will.