“Wow, time flies!” President Donald Trump posted to Truth Social yesterday. “Today is that Sixth Month Anniversary of my Second Term. Importantly, it’s being hailed as one of the most consequential periods of any President. In other words, we got a lot of good and great things done. … Six months is not a long time to have totally revived a major Country. ‘One year ago our Country was DEAD, with almost no hope of revival. Today the USA is the “hottest” and most respected Country anywhere in the World.’ Happy Anniversary!!!“
If it weren’t for hyperbole, Trump would be a lot less entertaining.
As we’ve said before, the Leftmedia gets hung up on Trump’s hyperbole as if he’s telling lies, but he’s not. It’s of a totally different kind than Joe Biden’s lying, which was meant to deceive. Trump exaggerates. Big difference.
Yet there was The Washington Post, telling us yesterday that “Trump has lost ground on the economy and immigration” in part because he’s been “consumed by Epstein.” Oddly enough, that’s less news reporting than it is hyperbole.
Team Trump did score an own goal on the Jeffrey Epstein business, attacking his base over the failure of his administration to handle the Epstein files well, but I suspect that will be a short-lived hiccup.
Maybe the economy isn’t as strong as it could be, inflation ticking up to 2.7% for example, but that’s because Trump is using tariffs as leverage for very worthwhile foreign policy objectives. Unsurprisingly, his spat with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is also unpopular in the media. Yet the stock market is soaring, gas prices are at four-year lows — 20-year lows when adjusted for inflation — and deregulation is saving American families thousands of dollars.
Immigration has proved sticky largely because the Leftmedia amplifies every sob story it can concoct over deported “Maryland Men” and such. Because of emotionally manipulative media sensationalism, deporting illegal aliens who have not committed crimes other than crossing the border is not as popular as it was last year. That’s what the Post means by Trump “losing ground.”
However, the Post grudgingly gives Trump some credit:
The president has notched some clear successes. Congress approved the big tax cut and immigration bill. The Supreme Court has given him some victories, including a green light to fire thousands of federal workers. The airstrike on Iran’s nuclear facilities has brought a ceasefire between Iran and Israel and set back Iran’s nuclear program. NATO nations have agreed to increase defense spending.
This past week Trump agreed to send Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine, paid for by the Europeans. …
Trump also has delivered on his campaign promise to tighten security at the U.S.-Mexico border. Illegal crossings are at a low point.
The Post points out what it thinks is an irony — that as Trump pushes hard on immigration, deportation has become less popular and a path to citizenship has become more popular, all while more people see immigration as benefiting America. The Post thinks this is the public turning on the president.
To a certain extent, that’s true. It’s more true, however, that by closing the border, Trump has allowed people to take a deep breath and consider an issue that is no longer a crisis. Pollsters should ask people what they think of taxpayer money supporting illegals — especially while Veterans languish — and see how that affects overall attitudes.
During Biden’s single but oh-so-long term, at least 10 million people illegally crossed our southern border, often to be released into the country to commit crimes like raping and murdering young women. Predictably, the public was angry about that.
Frankly, though, it’s hard to overestimate the successes of Trump’s first six months. He has effectively closed the border, reducing illegal crossings to just over 6,000 in June from 83,000 in June 2024, and far more than that in individual months during Biden’s term. Deportations literally repatriate people who shouldn’t be here and send a loud message to others to leave of their own volition.
Moreover, making his 2017 tax cuts permanent is yuge. The fact that every single Democrat voted to raise our taxes by $4.5 trillion should enrage every American. For the first time in decades, Trump and congressional Republicans are clawing back allocated money instead of wasting it on left-wing projects like NPR and illegal aliens and able-bodied layabouts on Medicaid.
Operation Midnight Hammer was a resounding success. The Post glosses over it, but reducing Iran’s nuclear program to rubble while Israel took out dozens of nuclear scientists ensures that Iran is weakened in real and perceived ways. Israel has decimated Iran’s proxies, and Tehran’s influence over the Middle East has been greatly diminished. That will pay big peace dividends.
Trump has also put Russia and China on their heels a bit, and America’s allies are stronger. He ought to win one of those three Nobel Peace Prize nominations.
Here at home, Planned Parenthood, NPR, and elite universities are reeling. The Democrat Party is in tatters. His first 100 days were a success that has continued through today.
Arguably, no one could give a better endorsement of Trump’s first six months than his predecessor. Biden complained earlier this month, “Many of the things I worked so damn hard, that I thought I changed in the country, are changing so rapidly.”
Is anyone “tired of all the winning” yet?
