Prez makes history as news made a mockery
It’s been a full year of cultural and political DEFCON 1 in America. Much of the country on both sides was in a soft panic, living their day-to-day lives with some level of protracted stress and anxiety.
Mercifully, it’s over and we can now step back from the red-hot seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks and months and evaluate the year on the sum total of the facts, minus the toxicity injected daily by powerful elites.
2017 saw the making of a president and the breaking of the media.
Cheers to that. President Trump clawed his way into the White House in full-pitched battle with the press, establishment elites and hysterical progressives. His honeymoon period simultaneously began and ended on Inauguration Day, trampled over by a zombie media horde all too thrilled to talk about his “dark speech,” “small crowds” and his uncouth manner around Melania. Any little thing. Every second of every day.
I’ll bet you never knew how many Diet Cokes President Obama drank every day or what footwear Michelle Obama wore to disaster areas. No, this kind of coverage was reserved for the Trump administration, a constant and dark chorus.
It has not stopped for a year.
But you know what else has not stopped for a year?
The historic pace of progress the Trump administration has made.
While the media continually jockeyed for a political kill shot, they missed everything else.
The thunderous rate of judicial appointments Trump has made has been unprecedented and will have a long-lasting impact on the American legal environment far beyond Gorsuch on the Supreme Court. But the media is more concerned about his lack of a presidential pooch, making the Trumps, in the words of CNN, “the only first family in modern history without a pet.”
Trump’s regulatory reform has been astounding. He has unburdened Americans in both the public and private sectors. Trump signed an executive order demanding that two regulations be killed for every new one created. But he went above and beyond, cutting 16 rules and regulations for every one created. That’s estimated to be $8.1 billion in lifetime net regulatory cost savings, the equivalent of $570 million per year.
All the while on CNN: “Trump gets 2 scoops of ice cream, others get 1.”
He encouraged energy production. Remember the Dakota Access Pipeline? An eight-year slow roll to death under Obama is already up and running under Trump. Add to that kissing the Paris climate agreement goodbye and easing restrictions on domestic energy. Seventyseven million acres in the Gulf of Mexico are now set to be open for oil and gas drilling.
While CNN reporters were hard on the case of Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ chocolate pecan pie, Trump worked with Congress on historic tax reform, rolling in the end of the Obamacare individual mandate and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. There was a time when ANWR was the biggest story in the country. Now, not a word. Jake Tapper and Carl Bernstein were too busy giggling about Trump and fictitious Russian prostitutes.
In fact, when the media wasn’t telling us that Trump needed to be removed for sedition, they were always happy to remind us of how stupid he was: “Yes, Donald Trump really did look into the sky during the solar eclipse” — CNN.
You know what else he really did? Last January he ordered his generals to put together a plan within 30 days for defeating ISIS. They did. And then the most powerful military in the history of man was unleashed on the most vile, wretched monsters on Earth and it was lights out for the Islamic State.
But a truck is obstructing CNN’s view of Trump playing golf this week, and that’s what is really important.
Many Americans will see an increase in their paychecks this year for the first time in a long time. Job creation is booming. The GDP rose at a rate of more than 3 percent in the third quarter, the most in years, and much faster than expected. Unemployment has been cut to 4.1 percent. The Dow is through the roof. The situation along our southern border is vastly improved. Americans are freer in every way than they were a year ago.
2017 was a good year for the good guys, a bad year for the bad guys.
The truth is all around us — we don’t need the Beltway media to tell us what’s going on. In fact, 2017 has taught us to dismiss news outfits like CNN. Don’t watch it. The allure is always there to look, but the result is always regrettable. Kind of like staring at a solar eclipse.