Posted on 12/18/2024 10:35:04 AM PST by bitt
President-elect Donald Trump’s most striking characteristics today are clarity, confidence, and calm. This is extraordinary in a man renowned for chaos, confusion, and the thin-skinned hurling of demeaning insults. But it is a truth that needs to be acknowledged and accounted for to understand what we are witnessing as Trump prepares to resume the presidency.
His press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Dec. 16 revealed a man almost preternaturally at ease with himself, his mission, his domestic support, and his acceptance abroad. His tone was measured, even somewhat humble, despite some bragging. When he dismissed questions, as he justifiably did once or twice, it was not done angrily or in a way that looked petty but with an assurance that widened the gap between himself and his erstwhile adversaries.
The press asked questions almost deferentially, showing respect for his office and a quietude rooted in the magnitude of his political triumph and mandate. The spectacle was a stunning contrast with the media maelstrom of his first term, when the likes of CNN’s Jim Acosta, posing vainly as a modern-Danton or people’s tribune, treated Trump as though he were axiomatically as illegitimate a president as Hillary Clinton and others bitterly claimed.
But as the days and weeks of the current presidential transition pass by, the significance of the stunning electoral outcome on Nov. 5 is settling on Trump, the nation, and the rest of the world.
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There are still many moles and trojan horses lurking in the mire. Not to mention the rinos still in place.
It’s a start. Now the GOP has to follow through.
He should call in Romney, McConnell, Bill Burr and a few others of their same ilk and ask for all their recommendations.
One of the greatest things about the 2024 election was, exactly 20 years after the triumphant, game-changing launch of the “Obama myth” at the 2004 DNC, the Obamas proved themselves, finally, once and for all, to be utterly feckless and discredited. No amount of a self-righteous, self-satisfied lecturing from Barry and Mooch could move the needle whatsoever. If anything, they hurt the Dems with their tired old bromides... and hypocrisy (Mooch, from her Martha’s Vineyward estate: “I was raised not to trust rich people”).
We cannot know how Trump’s second term will pan out. But his political achievement already outshines that of Obama, who is no longer smiling.
Finally, the reason for the headline!
🤔 Yeah, NO. 😊👍
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If they’re smart, they will.
How sweet it is.
Bathhouse Barry and Big Mike are nothing but grifters and con artists.
I saw the same thing. The Time magazine reporter who covered Trump and reported on him winning Person of the Year almost sounded like a Trump fan boy. I am not used to seeing such instinctive deference from the media for any Republican since McCain.
Obama’s simple.
He’s on the gender spectrum which is wonderful.
God doesn’t make mistakes.
Where he fails miserably is his logic, creating enemies where they don’t exist.
He’s a dolt. An imbecile. A clown. A Buffoon.
And his supporters should take inventory.
And don’t tell me the Obama gang didn’t try to kill Trump twice for threatening their status.
There used to be an etiquette on Free Republic that you would post a retort with the original comment.
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Yeah, right after pigs fly and I win the Powerball lottery!
I’m reminded of BO’s effort to win the 2016 Olympic Games for Chicago....but, then he won the joke Nobel Peace Prize.
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