OPINION:
President Trump entered the White House on a wave of campaign promises to secure the border, destroy the DEI, release the J6-ers, ramp up domestic energy production and reel in the LGBTQ lunacy. And so far so good. Dozens of executive orders later, it’s clear: America is well on its way to becoming America once again.
“I was in the packed hall at Davos to hear Trump speak. The audience went from laughter to silence in seconds,” one journalist with Yahoo News wrote.
If a picture says 1,000 words, that headline speaks that, times 10.
“CEOs and leaders listened to him speak … [and] sat silent as he bashed the EU,” Yahoo News went on.
If anything needed a good bashing of late, it’s the European Union. And the World Economic Forum. And the World Health Organization. And the United Nations. But to the European Union, Trump said this: “Come make your product in America and we will give you among the lowest taxes of any nation on Earth.” But don’t?
From the White House, speaking to reporters, Trump made clear this: “The European Union is very, very bad to us. So they’re going to be in for tariffs. It’s the only way,” Reuters reported.
Yep. Pay up — or play the American way.
What a refreshing change from the skulking, shrinking, slinking, pussyfooting mannerisms of the previous Joe Biden administration and Barack Obama White House, both of which cared little for putting America first and much, much more for apologizing about America’s prosperity by word and deed. Their socialist economic policies were about destroying America’s drive and ambition and ability to produce while redistributing Americans’ wealth overseas.
Trump’s kinda different on that score.
He’s kinda different on a lot of scores, actually — and that’s why his first week in office has already been more beneficial for all of America than the combined 12 years of Biden and Obama. It’s all about priorities, really.
Biden’s priority was continuing the Obama priority of changing the foundations of America and shaping this nation into a more Marxist model.
Trump’s priorities are about ushering in a “golden age” for America, where Americans — American citizens — legal American citizens — are actually put first. It’s not just potatoes-potahtoes. It’s communism-freedom. It’s collectism-individualism.
“We will not forget our country, we will not forget our Constitution, and we will not forget our God,” Trump said, during his inaugural address.
Among his executive orders: He unleashed a wide swath of powers of government to secure America’s borders and apprehend and arrest illegals hiding in cities and communities around the nation. No more catch and release. No more waving of migrants across the border without proper vetting. He made clear males are males and females are females and never the two shall meet in school bathrooms, in athletics, in areas where sexes are sensibly separated for the safety and privacy of women. He pulled America out of the China-fawning, communist-enabling World Health Organization, and yanked America from the Paris climate change agreement. He designated cartels and terror groups as terror groups. He called on his treasury and commerce chiefs to root out all unfair trade practices and recommend America First policies to take their places. He started the establishment of an external revenue service to take money from foreign sources. He banned government officials from using social media as a tool of censorship and propaganda. He repealed Biden’s many, many burdensome climate change mandates and shred his forced electrical vehicle standards against the auto manufacturers — you know, the ones Team Biden billed as simple and benign “incentives.”
And there’s more.
Trump’s first week was a flurry of executively ordered activity, all aimed at undoing the damages of the Biden years as quickly as possible, as forcefully as possible, and in a way that sent the strongest possible message: America is back on top. And get this; image that: he still made time to visit with homeowners in North Carolina still tragically suffering because of their recent hurricane — and because of the failures of the Biden Team FEMA to do much to alleviate their suffering.
“Trump proposes ’getting rid of FEMA,’ as he visits disaster zones in North Carolina, California,” The Associated Press reported.
It’s this kind of genuine concern for the people and for America that can’t be faked. And don’t the American people know it.
“Trump popularity higher than throughout most of first term: Poll,” The Hill reported, amid Trump’s first week in office.
Americans do like an America First agenda.
A few more weeks like this and Democrats won’t be able to win the White House for decades to come.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,” is available by clicking HERE.
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