The Real Person of the Year- President Trump’s Detractors
One might think that, after 2016- an entire year of making horses’ asses of themselves, his legions of detractors would have known better than to further abase themselves by continuing to predict the worst when it comes to Donald Trump.
Remember that all of the so-called (and self-styled) “experts” once predicted that:
– Donald Trump’s candidacy was a joke
– Donald Trump would never win the Republican Nomination
– Donald Trump would be destroyed by Hillary Clinton in the debates
– Donald Trump’s candidacy won’t survive his comments on women
– Donald Trump had no path to victory against Hillary Clinton in the election
– Donald Trump’s election would result in an immediate stock market crash
– Donald Trump’s collusion with the Russians will result in impeachment
– Donald Trump will never successfully appoint a Supreme Court Justice
– There is no way Donald Trump could possibly exit the Paris Climate Accord
– Donald Trump cannot partially ban immigration from specific countries
– Donald Trump cannot possibly defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria
– Donald Trump wouldn’t dare to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
– Donald Trump cannot remove ObamaCare’s individual mandate
– Donald Trump won’t be able to sign a tax overhaul/reduction bill by Christmas
There are many, many more predictions, all proven to be wrong, made by the “experts” who still cannot manage to come to grips with the very fact of Trump’s presidency. Worse, his consistent string of successes as President has caused his many detractors to become apoplectic, practically to the point of derangement.
Regardless, dire predictions of every single aspect of Trump’s presidency have continued to the point of ridiculousness. In the midst of all of this naysaying- by Democrats, NeverTrump Republicans, academia, mainstream media and self-absorbed and self-anointed celebrities- President Trump has nevertheless achieved the most successful first year of any presidency in memory.
The secret to Trump’s success in his first year as president is the same secret he deployed in winning the Republican nomination and the presidential election in 2016.
He out-worked his opposition.
While Hillary Clinton pursued a campaign schedule that was on-again, off-again, Donald Trump participated in four to five campaign events each day, seven days a week for months in pursuit of victory, despite all of the negativity aimed his way.
Similarly, while all of his political and media opponents have fixated themselves on a Russian fantasy, the President has eliminated nearly two thirds of federal regulations in eleven months, rescinded most all of Barack Obama’s executive orders, successfully appointed a record number of circuit court judges and completely re-asserted American pre-eminence on the world stage.
So, it is altogether fitting and proper that we should celebrate the real and true Person of the Year- all of those Trump naysayers who have made complete and total horses’ asses of themselves by telling us just how bad a president Trump has been. Let’s all wish them continued success in under-estimating the President in everything they say and do, while President Donald Trump continues to…
…“Make America Great Again”
Merry Christmas, everyone (the president promised we could once again say this, too).
-Drew Nickell, 21 December 2017
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