OPINION:
Many people are rightly calling Donald Trump’s reelection the “greatest comeback” of all time (“‘History’s greatest comeback’: From Israel to Ukraine, world leaders congratulate Trump on election,” web, Nov. 6).
To those who have closely followed his very public business career, is this return (which makes Mr. Trump the second president in history to serve two nonconsecutive terms) really such a surprise? Mr. Trump endured tough economic times in the early 1990s and authored his second book, “Surviving at the Top,” in which he predicted his business comeback a few years later after coining the phrase “Survive ’Til ’05” as his battle cry.
By the end of that decade, Mr. Trump’s rebound was complete — and he wrote his third book, “The Art of the Comeback.” So he literally wrote the book on comebacks. Triumphing over adversity against all odds is clearly in his DNA.
As my parents used to preach, “A measure of a person’s character is the amount of disappointment it takes to discourage him.” What Donald Trump has endured over the past 9½ years (hoaxes, impeachments, fake stories, investigations, 94 felony accounts, two assassination attempts and a three-on-one presidential debate) would have been the undoing of almost anyone else.
The abuse he has suffered at the hands of the rabid political left was designed to trip him up and ruin his chances for reelection — yet he didn’t let it. This man has demonstrated to the world that his character is something to admire.
Like him or not, Mr. Trump is now our tough-as-nails incoming president, representing the U.S. on the world stage. And he’s not just any fighter, but an exquisitely trained heavyweight champion of the world. And the bad guys all know it.
LUANA DUNN
Medford, New York
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