Look, you’re gonna be so proud of your country if I get in. You’re gonna be so proud of your president, and I don’t care about that. But you are gonna be so proud of your country, because we’re gonna turn it around, and we’re gonna start winning again! We’re gonna win so much! We’re gonna win at every level! … We’re gonna win with every single facet! We’re gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning! And you’ll say, “Please, please, it’s too much winning! We can’t take it anymore! Mr. President, it’s too much!” And I’ll say, “No, it isn’t! We have to keep winning! We have to win more! We’re gonna win more! We’re gonna win so much!”
That was candidate Donald Trump on August 11, 2016, in Albany, New York, of all places. And, man, was that ever fun to revisit. See for yourself:
Trump was getting his Trump on, going full Trump, and Trumping things up as only he can. But in his wildest, wackiest, zaniest, big-dreamiest dreams, could even Donald Trump have envisioned a week like the one just past?
In around half a fortnight — that is, in around half the time it takes to run a tennis tournament at the stodgy old All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club — the man who just four years ago was assumed by the chattering class to be deader than a doornail politically enjoyed a series of consequential events and outcomes that are perhaps unrivaled in the 249-year history of our nation.
Let’s review: The Week That Was Trump began on Saturday night, June 21, with Operation Midnight Hammer, a precision bombing strike on Iran’s most impenetrable nuclear facilities — a strike whose boldness and secrecy have since caused the desperate Democrats to disgrace themselves in an effort to discredit it. The experts agree, though: The mission was a success, and Iran’s key facilities at Natanz, Fordow, and Esfahan have been wrecked.
Moving on, Trump on Monday received a favorable ruling from the Supreme Court on third-country deportations, then brokered a remarkable ceasefire between Israel and Iran, thus ending the 12-day war.
He then headed off to the NATO summit in the Netherlands, where he was treated like a rock star amid having notched a huge funding win for the organization. Trump’s years-long efforts toward shared security costs have borne fruit, as all member nations except deadbeat Spain agreed to bump up their defense spending to 5% of GDP.
Upon returning to the U.S., Daddy Trump then convened a meeting in the Oval Office to announce that he and Secretary of State Marco Rubio had brokered an end to the murderous 30-year Congo-Rwanda war and had hammered out a mineral rights deal with the Congo. This came as Pakistan — Pakistan — was nominating Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
On Friday, Trump achieved a key trade breakthrough with China, which Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said would ensure that vital rare earth materials would start flowing back to the U.S.
But that wasn’t the biggest news of the day — not even close. On Friday morning, the Supreme Court handed Trump a bookend win to his remarkable week with a resounding ruling against judicial tyranny and undemocratic nationwide injunctions.
And all this while both the S&P 500 and NASDAQ are trading at record highs, and gasoline prices are at a four-year summer low, and the Senate approved a key motion to advance his signature One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Any of these wins alone might constitute a good week for the executive branch. But taken together, I think it’s fair to call this unprecedented seven-day stretch One Big Beautiful Week.
