According to Trump’s Speech to the Nation – He’s Our Nation’s Savior

 

According to Trump’s Speech to the Nation – He’s Our Nation’s Savior

But What Do the Facts Say?

“We have accomplished more in 43 days than most administrations accomplish in four years or eight years — and we are just getting started.”

Donald Trump during his March 4th speech.

“Trump was right about everything.” 

 Emblazoned on the hat Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) wore to Trump’s address to the nation

If the sad and dejected feeling, reflected in the Democratic Party at Trump’s congressional presentation is any measure, the Dems have adopted a “we no likee you” posture against a consummate megalomaniac bully who truly enjoys watching them writhe in helpless agony. Peppering his remarks with sympathetic “little stories of individual struggles and triumph” – which any television producer knows will tug at the heartstrings of the audience – Trump’s practiced art of repetition of falsehoods, using buzzwords, also rang strong with both his diehard MAGA followers… and, unfortunately, with those independent voters who swung that marginal “mandate” to elect him. If you have ever watched the speeches of famous autocrats, you know that process works. Not to mention that all those contrary facts and statistics, evidence of failure, are not remotely as catchy as a well-turned Trumpian diatribe. But maybe those words did not resonate after all.

The randomness of co-President Musk’s self-aggrandizing invasion of federal agencies with his “baby” techie cadres, with no security clearance but paid six figures by taxpayers, digging into so many federal agencies (e.g., CIA), inadvertently spiling the names of critical and specialized federal employees (e.g., CIA) into easily hacked, insecure file servers, knowing that those names are now in the hands of Chinese operatives, should scare us all. Our national security has been seriously compromised. Those who have been discharged or lured into forced retirement are veritable treasure troves of highly classified information. And might there be more than a few “betrayed” fired federal operatives who just might open to a reverse-betrayal of our nation?

But even as the President took credit for successes in the Biden administration and lambasted the former President for any negative reality, the Trump/Musk cabal was not faring well in the courts (even within the Trump reconfigured US Supreme Court) or in the statistical outflow of anger and negative statistics from almost everywhere on Earth except Russia and Israel. Over 100 lawsuits were filed, and most preliminary orders went against Trump/Musk. The Trump/Musk approach to the bad numbers? Don’t allow the government to release them or redefine those facts into meaninglessness. Blame outside “paid troublemakers” for those angry gatherings of constituents as they expressed indignation at GOP town hall meetings. And just lie!

Some of our allies seem to have the ability to release that negative information anyway. And even allies who want to invest in the United States are citing cites the economic instability resulting from Trump’s “stop, go and reverse” trade polices (like Japan) as a barrier to implementation. Musk fires, and Trump is forced to rehire, critical federal specialists. How bad are those facts?

Kevin Rector, writing for the March 6th Los Angeles Times, tells us: “Since his election in November — which was narrow in terms of votes but relatively decisive on the electoral map — Trump has claimed a wide mandate to enact his ‘America first’ vision, including through sweeping executive orders designed to bypass Congress. He has used that argument to dismiss criticisms, including from federal judges, that his administration is overreaching, moving too quickly and potentially violating the law.

On Tuesday [3/4], Trump said that his November win ‘was a mandate like has not been seen in many decades,’ that ‘for the first time in modern history, more Americans believe that our country is headed in the right direction than the wrong direction,’ and that ‘it has been stated by many’ that the first month of his presidency has been ‘the most successful in the history of our nation.’

“However, recent polling has suggested that Americans are heavily divided on Trump’s policies, and that more disapprove of him and some of his key initiatives than approve of them. Trump’s key advisor Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which has targeted federal agencies for closure or dramatic reductions in staffing and funding, have even less support.

“An NPR/PBS News/Marist poll conducted [before the speech], for example, found 45% of Americans approved of the job Trump is doing, while 49% disapproved. That is a high approval rating for Trump, who had a 38% approval rating at the end of his first term, but historically low for a new president ahead of his first address to Congress, according to Gallup and other polling figures… Among modern presidents, only Trump himself, at the start of his first term in 2017, has had a lower approval at this stage…

“Americans also are not overly optimistic about the path the country is on. According to the Marist poll, 53% of Americans said the state of the union is not very strong or not strong at all, 54% said the country is moving in the wrong direction, and 56% said Trump was rushing to make changes without properly considering the impacts.

“On the economy, 42% said Trump was changing things for the better, 46% for the worse. On immigration, 47% said Trump was changing things for the better, 43% for the worse. On foreign policy, 44% said Trump was changing things for the better, 49% for the worse. On each issue, skepticism was highest among Democrats but also strong among independent voters, while Republicans largely backed the president.

“Half of respondents said they had an unfavorable view of Musk, while 39% said they had a favorable view of him; 44% had an unfavorable view of DOGE, while 39% had a favorable view…A majority, 57%, expected grocery prices will increase over the next six months, while 17% said they believed prices would go down.

“Trump on Tuesday [3/4] said that he had inherited an ‘economic catastrophe and an inflation nightmare’ from the Biden administration — something Democrats and many economists dispute — and that one of his ‘highest priorities is to rescue our economy and get dramatic and immediate relief to working families.’” Even the conservative Wall Street Journal’s editorial board slammed Trump on March 3rd, calling his plan to place tariffs on other countries the “dumbest tariff plunge.” A recession, even a depression, looming? Even the billionaires are worried.

I’m Peter Dekom, and our nation is hopelessly divided, our traditional allies no longer trust us, the stock market has already voted against Trump’s obviously misguided on-again, off-again tariff policies, lawsuits against Trump are accelerating, our economy is heading off the rails, so when will Trump ever get tired of “winning”?