Trump’s First 100 Days: A Gold Standard for the History Books
By Cherie Zaslawsky
We have witnessed the greatest
comeback in American political history. Who would
have thought, after packing up for Mar-a-lago though
he knew the 2020 election had been stolen from him,
that Trump would run again? Or that he’d draw huge
crowds to his signature rallies once more, even
after the Dems did their damnedest to tarnish him as
“a convicted felon”?
And when all their malevolent
lawfare shenanigans failed, their likely Plan D was
nearly accomplished in Butler, Pennsylvania when
Trump missed being assassinated by a hair’s breadth.
Ironically, it was his courageous defiance and his
concern for We the People that emerged in his now
iconic gesture to the crowd, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”
that arguably sealed his victory, as well as his
likely place on Mount Rushmore. And what are we to
fight for? America! Our sovereignty! Our traditional
Judeo-Christian values! Our birthright liberty!
And now, beyond Trump’s
astonishing comeback and his landslide win in 2024,
we have witnessed his first 100 days in office.
Rather than pointing out the several things we may
disagree about, or the staff or Cabinet posts we
might think were bad picks, let’s admit that these
100 days were nothing short of breathtaking!
BIG, BEAUTIFUL TARIFFS
Not long ago, I read a stunning
article about Trump’s tariffs that challenged the
popular consensus of both the nay-sayers and the
enthusiasts. Perhaps because I’m fresh from reading
Trump’s autobiographical bestseller, “The Art of the
Deal”—as engaging and entertaining as it is
enlightening about deal-making—that article’s
analysis makes perfect sense to me.
One of my favorite passages in
Trump’s book is the one in which he stands looking
at the old Commodore Hotel, and opines that most
people standing there see a dilapidated hotel in a
sad-looking neighborhood, but he sees something
else. He sees scores of well-dressed men and women
hurrying out of Grand Central Station, right across
the street from the Commodore. He imagines a
renovated and beautiful hotel there that would draw
from that well-heeled crowd and light up the
neighborhood. In other words, the man’s a visionary!
He sees possibilities that others miss.
And that is the point of Jeff
Childers’ brilliant analysis of Trump’s tariffs, in
which he
opines:
Historically, tariffs have
always been used as protectionist tools (e.g.,
Smoot-Hawley) or revenue generators (in the
pre-income-tax period). But Trump saw something
every other president missed: he’s wielding tariffs
as a universal negotiation tool, forcing countries
to come to the table, not just to talk about widgets
and steel, but to extract much broader concessions
on things like military cost-sharing, tech
regulation, currency manipulation, and who knows
what else.
* * *
It’s totally new and wildly
unprecedented. It’s like the Marshall Plan in
reverse, except with the whole world, not just
Western Europe. Trump is monetizing American
hegemony. The globalists built a one-way grocery
aisle of dependency — and Trump put a cash register
at the end of the aisle. And now the whole world is
waiting in line.
* * *
The most underappreciated
piece of the puzzle is that only President Trump
spotted the possibilities.
By the way, I attended a
Townhall Zoom conference not long ago, and listened
to a 20-minute presentation on tariffs by an expert
economist. His basic conclusion: tariffs are bad.
And he’s not alone: Many economists hate tariffs,
Democrats hate tariffs, Libertarians hate tariffs,
Saturday Night Live comedians hate tariffs—all the
more if they’re imposed by the Orange Man.
But the expert economists and
talking heads are mostly thinking within the box.
Trump doesn’t merely think outside the box, he doesn’t even notice the box! He looks with fresh eyes at the actual big picture—in this case at world economics—sees how other nations have ripped off America—and figures out how to remedy the situation. He’s bringing other nations to the bargaining table in the realization that the U.S., in spite of four miserable years of Bidenomics, is still the richest and most powerful country in the world—and he’s using that as leverage. He’s hitting other nations where it hurts: in their balance sheets.
But the purpose isn’t to
“punish” them—it’s to effect a realignment of world
economics that puts America back where we were
before decades of incremental Progressive siphoning
off of our wealth and productivity—the “giant
sucking sound” Ross Perot spoke of when he ran for
President in 1992, warning us what would happen if
our manufacturing plants moved to Mexico.
It’s Trump’s signature campaign
promise: to Make America Great Again! And that means
we have to stop being the world’s piggy bank, which
is all the more important as average Americans have
been struggling after four years with a crooked and
obviously senile man in the Oval Office, and with
America-hating Obama likely the one calling the
shots from behind the curtain.
WINNING WITH DOGE & BEYOND
President Trump’s execution of
this overhaul of world economies at the same time
he’s exposing and eliminating domestic rip-offs
through DOGE,
is sheer brilliance. In essence, he’s
balancing the books! He’s uncovering the massive
theft of American wealth by Leftists inside our own
government, as well as the plundering of our nation
by the international globalist elites and pals, as
well as the “monkey see, monkey do” response of many
other countries.
Even before President Trump had
been in office for the proverbial 100 days, he’d
begun winning so handily for the American people
that it had to be seen to be believed.
Among his spectacular early
achievements is the creation of DOGE which is
uncovering the enormous waste—which looks mostly
like fraud—hidden away in the catacombs of the
Administrative State. And with his daring choice of
Elon Musk to oversee the task, the cleansing of our
nation’s Augean Stables is well underway.
STRIKING AT THE ROOT OF
CULTURAL & INTELLECTUAL MARXISM
One of my favorite wins is
Trump’s pulling the plug on Ivy League
anti-intellectual factories of Marxist
indoctrination and rampant anti-Semitism, including
Obama’s alma mater: Columbia, along with Hahvahd and
Yale.
Better yet, he’s challenging
their accreditation, which gets them where they
live, in their wallets. Cato Institute Research
fellow Andrew Gillen puts it
this way: ““If you lose Pell grants and lose
student loans, for most colleges that means you’re
done.”
And President Trump is doing
this to combat
“Ideological Overreach.”
Delicious!
HALTING THE DAMAGE TO
PROPERTY RIGHTS & MORE THROUGH PHONY-BALONEY
ENVIRONMENTALISM
Another of my faves is Trump’s
defanging of the Endangered Species Act. Apparently
he hates the fact that California keeps wasting our
water to “save” an inedible bait fish, the Delta
smelt, as much as I do:
He has
blamed the water woes of California on misguided
efforts to
“protect an essentially worthless fish.”
Not to mention the fact that,
thanks to the chemicals being sprayed in our skies,
the fluoride in our drinking water, our GMO foods,
and experimental mRNA vaccines, the only endangered
species on Earth happens to be homo sapiens—We the
People!
Besides, the environmentalist
claims are almost uniformly bogus. Neither the
Spotted owl, nor the Delta smelt were actually
“endangered” as claimed.
In an article for Real Clear
Politics, Philip
Wegmann notes:
“Environmental is the
biggest tool for stopping growth,”
Trump said during an interview with
Joe Rogan last October, harking back to his New York
days as a real estate developer and
complaining that rare flora and fauna on a job
site could quickly grind even the biggest
construction projects to a halt. The candidate
called environmental regulations “a weapon,” and
later as president-elect, he vowed to expedite the
environmental permit and approval process for any
company investing at least $1 billion in the United
States. Wrote Trump on Truth Social last December,
“GET READY TO ROCK!!!”
Wegmann’s own analysis follows:
Sweeping change would follow
from redefining a single word:
harm. Instead of allowing the ESA’s
mission creep to continue, resulting in people
losing the use of their land if authorities were to
find, for example, a red-toed blind salamander on
it, the Trump administration is redefining “harm” as
“to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound,
kill, trap, capture, or collect” the animal itself.
Bravo, Donald!
A BLACK EYE FOR BIG PHARMA
Not only did President Trump
place Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the most powerful
health-related position in his Cabinet, but he’s now
going after Pharma’s longtime habit of grossly
overcharging its American customers. Why charge us
triple or quadruple, or even eight times more for
drugs than what they charge Canadians or Europeans?
Because they could!
However, in the past few days,
in addition to brokering peace talks between Russia
and Ukraine, and a ceasefire between India and
Pakistan, Trump signed an Executive Order pulling
the rug out from under Big Pharma’s unconscionable
scheme of price-gouging our own people.
Anyone tired of winning yet?
As a friend of mine put it:
almost every day we seem to get another gift.
Christmas came early this year!
THE EXQUISITE MELTDOWN OF
THE LEFT
The Dems can’t seem to stop
outing themselves as lunatics, from their great show
of concern and compassion for a wife-beating
Salvadoran gang member, to the kidnapping and murder
of beloved pet squirrel P’nut by the overzealous New
York gestapo, they’re on the wrong side
of…well…everything.
This reminds me of how Trump
changed the political landscape during his first run
in 2016 with just two words: “Fake news.”
Think of the courage it took to call out the
mainstream media that way. And then rejoice in the
fact that his pointing out that the Emperor wasn’t
wearing any clothes got millions of previously
trusting Americans to wake up. Perhaps even some
Dems.
I said “perhaps.”
THE TRUTH HIDDEN IN PLAIN
SIGHT: WE HAVE A LARGER THAN LIFE AMERICAN HERO IN
THE WHITE HOUSE
Even Leftist politico Van Jones
blurted out some obvious truth in an interview on
TikTok:
Donald Trump is not an
idiot. Let me just be very clear: Donald Trump is
smarter than me, you, and all critics. You know why
we know? Because he has the White House, the Senate,
the House, the popular vote, he has a massive media
ecosystem, bigger than the mainstream, built around
him and for him, and a religiously religious fervor
in a political movement around him. And his best
buddy is the richest person in the history of the
world, and the most relevant Kennedy is with him.
This dude is a phenomenon! He is the most powerful
human on earth and in our lifetime and we’re still
saying well how is this guy…we look like idiots.
But I’ll give
Steve Bannon the last word:
…he [Trump] understood at
the time that if he came back and ran for president
again, not just the Republican Establishment but
that the Apparatus would try to put him in prison,
the Apparatus would try to bankrupt him, the
Apparatus would eventually try to assassinate him.
He made the most courageous political move in the
history of this country…
Most countries don't have
someone like Trump in their entire history. We've
been very fortunate to have General Washington at
the founding of the nation, President Lincoln at the
rebirth of the nation and now President Trump at the
rejuvenation of this country… a man like that
comes along every hundred years.
[Emphasis mine]
While we know the Radical Left
and “One World Government” globalist elites will
never give up and that vigilance must be our
watchword, the MAGA Millions have surely earned a
victory lap!