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Posted on 10/21/2026 5:49:51 AM PDT by Jacquerie
Trump’s economy has produced an all-time record-low poverty rate and record-high household income. Now nearly a million more Americans are working than just two months ago. Time to tell the story.
That’s not all. America just also hit its highest real median household income in history. The Atlanta Fed’s October 20 estimate puts third-quarter growth at a strong 3.5 percent annual rate. That’s after years of Democrats promising us that 1.6 percent was “the new normal.” It’s also after barely more than a year and a half of Trump back in office.
It gets even better. Child poverty fell to just 13.4 percent, the lowest official rate ever recorded. Hispanic poverty fell to a record low 13.9 percent. Real weekly earnings for blue-collar manufacturing workers are up 4.1 percent since January 2025; construction workers’ earnings are up an even higher 5 percent.
Now add 975,000 more Americans working in just the last two months.
It’s kind of a miracle. And it’s gathering steam.
Yet to hear the Enemedia — and some conservatives — talk, the exact opposite is true. To them it’s all “muh gas prices.” Which is funny since the average gas price under Joe Biden was higher than the average during Trump’s second term, even with the war.
Something is seriously amiss.
If incomes are rising faster than prices, it isn’t affordability. It certainly isn’t household wealth. The income figure measures the household in the middle. Elon Musk getting richer can’t drag it upward the way he could an average. And the $2,250 gain in 2025 alone is what remains after adjusting for higher prices.
People who spent years watching inflation eat their raises are finally getting ahead. Dismissing that isn’t showing concern for working families: it’s just myopic.
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It goes to show that there IS a positive message to sell to the American people.
Sadly, if you listen to the President speak at a rally, that message rarely makes up even ten percent of the content.
It’s because the left needs a good bitch slapping and Trump’s the only one willing to fight. He doesn’t wait for them to hit below the belt.
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“It goes to show that there IS a positive message to sell to the American people.”
If they would just sell it.
The bitch slapping is recycled daily and is frankly tiresome. Both MAGA and the Dems have seen this show too many times for it to have any real impact.
And it’s not much of a motivator to get GOP voters to the polls. Talking up accomplishments like growth and drug price declines have potential, not the airing of grievances à la Festivus.
Nor are the repeated comments about Republican candidates’ tushes.
Yes, grocery and gas prices are higher than we’d like (although at least with Trump and Iran theres a legitimate reason for it), but stores and restaurants are packed and road traffic heavy everywhere I go.
Are things really that tough?
For those with TDS, it might help to refresh their memory with a list of accomplishments. I posted this on a different thread about a month ago. It was compiled in July by Jeff Childers, of Coffee & Covid.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-list-wednesday-july-15-2026-c
Since then there have been other numerous accomplishments, not the least of which is the recent agreement with Greenland and Denmark.
🔥 Trump 2.0 Accomplishments (as of mid-July 2026) 🔥
*USAID and the “Institute for Peace” closed
*Negative net migration for the first time in 50 years
*2.6 million+ illegal aliens removed (including 650,000 arrests and 400,000 convicted criminals) + 2 million self-deportations induced by ending incentives
*Fentanyl trafficking crushed 56%+; overdose deaths down 21% monthly since inauguration
*Laken Riley Act signed and aggressively enforced
*Catch-and-release ended (99.9% drop); zero releases into the U.S. for eight straight months
*Record-low border encounters; Darién Gap migration cut 99%
*Largest one-year homicide drop in U.S. history; violent crime (rapes, robberies, assaults) down significantly
*Targeted crime operations in major blue cities delivering record-low murders in several metros
*Law enforcement officer deaths down 25%
*Tren de Aragua, MS-13, and other cartels dismantled; international drug cartels designated as foreign terrorist organizations
*Antifa designated a domestic terrorist organization
*Gas under $3/gallon in 43 states; record U.S. energy production and exports at all-time highs
*654,000+ new private-sector jobs (all net gains to native-born Americans);
*671,000+ jobs added since January 2025
*4.3% GDP growth in Q3 2025; largest blue-collar wage growth in 60 years; real earnings up ~$1,100 annually
*Inflation tamed to ~2.4% core CPI (down ~70% from Biden peak)
*One Big Beautiful Bill passed (July 2025) — making 2017 tax cuts permanent,
*No Tax on Tips, Trump Accounts for newborns, senior deductions
*$5T+ in deregulation savings + $215 billion in government efficiency cuts ($1,335 per taxpayer)
*$10T+ in reshored/domestic investments secured
*Trade deficit at lowest level since 2009; $300 billion+ in tariff revenues collected; Predatory global tariffs shifted in the US’s favor for the first time in modern history
*Stock market record highs
*Gaza ceasefire + hostage release secured; 12-Day War (Israel-Iran) ended; multiple additional peace deals/accords (Armenia-Azerbaijan, India-Pakistan, DRC-Rwanda, Cambodia-Thailand, Kosovo-Serbia, Egypt-Ethiopia)
*Iran’s nuclear capability destroyed + maximum pressure campaign (450+ sanctions designations)
*NATO allies leaping toward 5% GDP defense spending
*OPEC dismantling
*85+ detained Americans released; Abraham Accords expanded
*Strikes on Houthis, Iranian assets, and narcoterrorist vessels; Nicolás Maduro captured
*South America shifts rightwards; Europe shifts rightwards
*Record military recruitment goals met; largest military investment in decades with AI integration; F-47 sixth-generation fighter unveiled
*VA backlog reduced 60%; 3 million disability claims processed; 51,936 homeless veterans housed; benefits restored for vaccine-mandate discharges
*Transgender enlistment barred; DEI eliminated across military and federal agencies
*Over 269 executive orders signed in the term (230 in first year alone — highest first-year total since FDR); 81 memoranda + 158 proclamations
DOGE-driven bureaucracy cuts; IRS IT budget savings of $2B; wasteful contracts eliminated; federal retirement system automated and brought out of a literal coal mine
*DEI discrimination banned in federal contracting and agencies; race-based hiring ended
*DEI outlawed for college admissions; colleges’ patent revenue shared with taxpayers who funded it
*Federal ‘boards’ and ‘commissions’ fired and replaced with conservatives
*Washington, DC beautified; reflecting pool refinished
*Gender ideology extremism curbed in schools, medicine, and government (minors protected from chemical/surgical procedures); girls’ sports protected from creeps
*MAHA reforms launched: Presidential Commission established; Most Favored Nation drug pricing with 16+ major pharma companies; 8 artificial food dyes phased out (40%+ industry compliance); Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act; marijuana reclassified to Schedule III; childhood vaccine schedule revised from 72 to 11 consensus shots; expanded IVF access; $50M autism initiative; new whole-foods dietary guidelines
*Massive firings at CDC, FDA, NIH of sold-out scientists; Ralph Baric and EcoHealth debarred; even some arrests
*Withdrew from WHO
*Crypto regulatory framework via GENIUS Act; Strategic Bitcoin Reserve created; Operation Choke Point 2.0 ended
*Sanctuary city funding cuts implemented
*Election integrity and citizenship verification measures expanded nationwide; USPS program pending; SAVE Act drafted and run at Congress several times now
*Energy dominance unleashed: National Energy Emergency declared; 6,000+ drilling permits approved (55% increase); 13.1 million acres opened for coal leasing; record LNG exports (>100 million tons); nuclear projects advancing toward online status; major energy export deals ($100B South Korea, $200B Japan); Paris Agreement withdrawal
*US becomes a net oil exporter for the first time in history.
*Trump Accounts launched for newborns with federal seed funding + corporate matching
*Farmer aid secured; skilled trades and domestic manufacturing (semiconductors, autos, heavy equipment) expanded
*Over 100,000 fraudulent visas revoked; 275,000 illegal aliens removed from Social Security rolls; benefits terminated for 1.4 million illegal aliens; H1-B crackdowns and $100,000 application fees
*62,000+ missing migrant children rescued; Alien Enemies Act invoked against gangs
*Vice-president-led welfare fraud task force recovering billions and making mass arrests
*$2B sent to rebuild Western North Carolina
*Massive AI, space, and nuclear investment projects
*John Bolton convicted. James Comey arrested. John Brennan under investigation (probably facing a grand jury).
*RussiaGate grand jury set up and running in Florida.
*DOJ/ODNI seized Fulton County 2020 ballots. Trump is still working on Plans B, C, D, etc, with a ‘new’ integrity announcement scheduled as soon as tomorrow night.
IMHO, our country needs MORE of this. Let’s help out by GETTING OUT THE VOTE, instead of discouraging folks.
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