Proof he means to get the ‘jobs’ done

ON President Trump’s f irst Monday in the Oval Office, he delivered on one of his core campaign promises: killing the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.

It’s not an easy thing to walk into office and undo what your predecessor hailed as his primary economic platform for trading with the Asia-Pacific region. But Trump didn’t run on easy, he ran on results.

The American worker can compete just fine around the globe with what I like to call “Fair Free Trade” not “Faux Free Trade.” Trump knows that — and it’s why he won.

The real reason Hillary Clinton got wiped out in the Rust Belt is because nobody believed she’d fight for them. The people of Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Ohio, typically Democratic strongholds, care much more about jobs and their future career paths than they did about the DNC’s leaked e-mails or Jim Comey’s announcement or the desperate faux Russia propaganda.

As a Clinton should have known, it’s the economy, stupid!

And it demonstrated why Trump was able to beat the establishments of both parties: his ideological independence.

Politicians love to tout their supposed practicality — they don’t care about Red Team, Blue Team stuff, they say. They just want what works. But Trump actually meant it. Trump’s move on TPP shows that he’s governing as he campaigned. No two-faced doublespeak. What he said to the American worker, he meant.

The voters understood him, and he understood them.

Monday, hopefully, got the point across to anyone who still didn’t get it.