Tagged: donald trump

Behold the swamp.

In the 60 odd days of the Trump presidency one thing has become unmistakably clear. Federal employees in massive numbers are dedicated to derailing Trump’s presidency by any means possible.

Cutting the budget.

In a nation burdened with $20 trillion in debt, a crumbling infrastructure and a depleted military, it may be time to find a way to live without things like the National Endowment for the Arts.

Crazy? Or massively aggrieved?

Either Donald Trump is rubber-room crazy. Or he has uncovered political wrongdoing on a scale so grand as to make Watergate look like a candy store shoplifting.

A rich contrast.

Liberals like to amuse themselves with the mental caricatures that they have created of Donald Trump. Donald Trump for his part has repeatedly made fools of those who would reduce him to caricature.

Working long hours.

So the president is working 18 hour days? Let’s hope that he’s spending those hours pushing tax reform, regulatory relief, energy independence and sanity on our borders.

What if he succeeds?

Those making predictions of a failed Trump presidency would do well to remember their predictions about his “doomed” candidacy.

Re-learning hard lessons.

The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor because they thought they could get away with it. That calculation came perilously close to being correct.

They never saw it coming.

The political-class Ivy Leaguers who train back and forth between New York and Washington live in an alternate universe that most ordinary Americans don’t even know exists.