A Year in Review: President Trump's First 364 Days in Office

Believe it or not, President Trump has served as our Commander-in-Chief for just shy of one year. During his inaugural speech, President Trump promised big change for the “forgotten men and women.”  A series of “Women’s Marches” held the following day, featuring scores of angry feminists obsessed with their genitalia, served as a preview of coming attractions for all of the liberal hysteria that would ensue for the year to come.  Speakers at the primary Women’s March, held in Washington, D.C., included Madonna, who said that she had “thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.”   Kathy Griffin would later outdo Madonna by holding up a fake severed head of President Trump, which ultimately led to her losing her New Year’s Eve gig on CNN.  Those in the big cities will have to endure the wrath of the feminists this weekend, when the 2018 Women’s Marches will take place.    

 

President Trump did his best to fulfill his campaign promise to Make America Safe Again despite opposition from the Courts.  He signed into law Executive Order 13769, which limited travel to the United States from seven sh*thole countries that President Obama had identified as national security threats.  In response to his executive order, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer earned himself the nickname “Fake Tears Chuck” when he held a press conference calling the executive order “mean spirited” and “un-American.”  Acting Attorney General Sally Yates refused to defend the travel ban in Court, an action which led to her firing and her subsequent elevation to folk hero status in the Church of Liberalism.  President Trump has issued revised travel bans throughout the year; the most recent one included predominantly atheist North Korea and predominantly Catholic Venezuela, which should shut down the left’s narrative that the travel bans amount to nothing more than “Muslim bans.”    

 

President Trump gave an impassioned speech defending Western Civilization during a visit to Poland.  His speech demonstrating pride in western values served as a sharp contrast to President Obama’s “apology tour.”    Not surprisingly, the media did not like his speech very much, which criticized radical Islamic terrorism, and “the steady creep of government bureaucracy that drains the vitality and wealth of the people.”  Vox called it an “alt-right manifesto”, apparently offended that the President issued a “battle cry” for “family, for freedom, for country, and for God.”           

 

As a relative newcomer to the blood sport of politics, President Trump has learned some important lessons during his first year in office.  Hopefully, he learned that the opposition will always hate him no matter what he does; therefore he should not waste his time trying to impress them.  He may have thought that firing FBI Director James Comey would please the left, since they cite Comey as one of the reasons Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 Presidential Election.  Little did he know that his decision to fire Comey would result in the appointment of a Special Counsel to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential Election that would eat up taxpayer dollars and “distract this Congress from the critical work we’ve got to do to save this great country”, according to Rep. Matt Gaetz.  Many involved in the Russia probe have donated to Democrats over the years; Special Counsel Robert Mueller had to remove FBI Agent Peter Stzrok from the case after becoming aware of a series of anti-Trump text messages he sent his mistress Lisa Paige suggesting he felt he had a moral duty to stop Trump from winning the election.  The geniuses in Washington expect the American people to believe that it’s a mere coincidence that Stzrok also worked on the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation that ultimately concluded she committed no crime.    

 

Throughout his first year in office, President Trump fulfilled his promise to “the best jobs President God ever created.”  During his first week on the job, he authorized the construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines, which will create American jobs while giving us energy independence from the despotic dictators in the Middle East that hate our guts.  Companies including Foxconn, Broadcom, and most recently, Apple have announced their intentions to invest billions of dollars in the United States while creating tens of thousands of jobs.  Apple specifically cited the tax reform bill passed at the end of last year as a major factor in influencing their decision to invest in the United States.     

 

 

The left has tried using a wide array of tactics to remove President Trump from office.  The efforts first began in 2016, before he even took office.  A group of Hollywood celebrities begged members of the Electoral College bounded to vote for Trump to vote for someone else.   That effort failed. Rep. Al Green (D-TX) first called for the President’s impeachment on May 17, arguing that his request (not demand) to former FBI Director James Comey to end the investigation into his former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn amounted to obstruction of justice. Rep. Green introduced a new batch of articles of impeachment later in the year, after the President’s comments on kneeling NFL protesters.  When push came to shove, only 58 members of the U.S. House of Representative voted against tabling a motion to impeach President Trump.  The relentless Rep. Green introduced more articles of impeachment this morning.  Apparently, he has not learned about “the definition of insanity.”  The left has also tried to paint the President as mentally unfit to serve; they have talked openly about the possibility of ousting him using the 25^th Amendment.  If only they spent as much time working to better the lives of the American people as they did scheming to remove President Trump from office.     

 

 

Those who only rely on the mainstream media for their news might have no idea of President Trump’s successes.  The Media Research Center analyzed the three major networks’ nightly news broadcasts’ coverage of President Trump from inauguration day to December 31.  The study found that 90 percent of the news coverage of President Trump or the Trump Administration was negative, compared to just 10 percent positive.  The media had a tendency to focus on stories that made President Trump look bad, devoting more than 20 hours of airtime to the Russia scandal and just under two hours to his controversial response to the Charlottesville attack.  The media barely spent any time on highlighting stories that make the President look good; spending less than 30 minutes on deregulation, the expedition of pipeline projects, promotion of religious freedom, reform of veterans’ care, the appointment conservative justices to the Courts, and drilling in the arctic.  Then again, the mainstream media probably views these accomplishments as negatives, not positives.         

 

 

The mainstream media continued to humiliate themselves with their abusively biased coverage into the new year.  Earlier this week, the President’s doctor Admiral Ronny Jackson held a press conference where he took questions from the media about President Trump’s health.  Dr. Jackson has served as a physician to both President George W. Bush and President Obama.  President Trump had just completed a medical examination prior to the press conference.  He volunteered to take a cognitive exam, the first time any President volunteered to do so.  He ended up passing the cognitive exam with flying colors; scoring a 30 out of 30.  The President instructed Dr. Jackson to answer all of the media’s questions, many of which fell into the category of “ridiculous.”  NBC Producer Ken Dilanian later requested that President Trump step on a scale to prove that he only weighed 239 pounds.  That press conference will certainly not help the mainstream media’s effort to improve their abysmal poll numbers. 

 

President Trump could not have come up with a better way to end his first year in office than the “Fake News Awards”, which highlighted eleven examples of dishonest and/or inaccurate reporting from the mainstream media.    The top honor went to Paul Krugman, who predicted that the markets will ‘never’ recover from Trump.  The Dow hit milestone after milestone throughout 2017 while consumer confidence continued to rise exponentially.  CNN won a total of four “Fake news awards”, The New York Times walked away with two, while The Washington Post, ABC News, Newsweek, and Time won one each.  The eleventh fake news award went to the Russia collusion narrative, not specific to one particular news outlet.        

 

Overall, President Trump had a pretty good first year in office.  Hopefully, within the next 364 days, the President can work to fulfill his signature campaign promise of building a wall on the southern border with Mexico.  He faces an uphill battle as the Courts, the media and Congress will do everything they can to stonewall his America First agenda.  As Steve Bannon put it, “If you think they are going to give you your country back without a fight, you’re sadly mistaken.”  Fortunately, we have elected a leader willing to fight the good fight.