“Trump became the Muhammad Ali of Politicians.”
Posted on 07/29/2018 4:45:43 PM PDT by Hojczyk
As the Trump Administration continues, it’s obvious the ranks of former-opponents-but-now-Trump-supporters are growing.
Editorial cartoonist Gary Varvel, of the Indianapolis Star, recently wrote a column titled, “How I went from a Trump critic to a Trump supporter.”
Like me, Varvel began by not taking Trump seriously, although I will admit he was much harsher on the president than I was, “When Trump announced he was running for president, I admit that I didn't take this millionaire, hotel magnate, reality TV show celebrity as a serious candidate. I doubted his ability to do the job. So I drew him as a clown. In fact, my cartoons were as critical of him as many of my liberal cartoonist friends.”
Again, in agreement with me, Varvel felt the name-calling, the flood of tweets and the “braggadocio” was unpresidential and beneath the dignity of the office Trump aspired to fill. Varvel concluded, “Trump became the Muhammad Ali of politicians.”
Then a strange thing happened after Trump was sworn in and moved into the Oval Office. He changed Varvel’s mind by “keeping those promises.”
The list of kept promises is long. Approval of the Keystone pipeline. The rule that eliminated two existing regulations for each new one proposed. The tax cuts. The economic expansion. The end of the Obamacare individual mandate. And best of all, the Constitution-following list of judges.
Varvel concludes, “I admit that I was wrong about Trump. He's not a clown. He's a businessman, entertainer and now the president that I didn't want but now think we need… In my opinion, Trump has had the most successful 18 months as president than any other I've ever drawn.”
. Yet there are still prominent Never-Trumpers holed up like Imperial Japanese troops found decades after the end of WWII, still carrying on the fight.
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Just walkaway.
“Trump became the Muhammad Ali of Politicians.”
Just walkaway.
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Many are doing just that.
Michael Reagan surrenders to the obvious.
I’ll take it.
As correspondent Brit Hume commented to Never-Trump Generalissimo Bill Kristol who is claiming to be pro-Kavanaugh while remaining “anti–Trump,” “I suppose you can also be pro-tax cuts, pro deregulation, pro-defense increases, pro gun rights, pro-life and anti-Trump. But at some point, it begins to seem ridiculous.”
and there it is...
Beautiful!
Imagine a President who is delivering on what he promised. Pinch me as I must be dreaming. God Bless our President......we’re growing in strength and have his back!
Dang, that’s well said.
My son was a never-Trumper. He no longer is.
Varvel will be fired tomorrow morning.
I thought Trump was a strange guy but I voted “anyone but Hillary”
Now I thank God he’s in charge. Brilliant man with a major pair!
I know he’s no Regan but I think even Regan couldn’t handle todays political climate. Count our blessings we have someone who can but to be on the safe side...Keep praying!
And the one who predicted this with 100% accuracy is his fellow cartoonist, Scott Adams. Trump in fact is running ahead of Adam’s predictions in terms of converting critics to supporters.
Keep praying!
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I’m hoping he can fulfill two terms.
Here’s another thing: Trump has won over many former critics but how many former supporters has he lost? Very few, because you know every one would be trotted out by CNN and MSNBC.
In fact, his critics remain the same old NeverTrumpers and left-wing nut jobs that are not persauding anyone to change their opinion.
I agree.
I thought he would be good, but I did not think he would be this good.
A quote from Jonathan Swift: “When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.” Reminds me of President Donald Trump.
And the assassins of G. Julius Ceaser.
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