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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For the moment, I would prefer Trump to wipe the smirk off Little Johnson’s face.
Mike did that a long time ago.
Barack had to be the man Bill O’Reilly said was “the hardest working President in our era.”* Avoided domestic time.
*Yes, Joe is the laziest.
Someone said every black person’s mother has displayed in her home portraits of Jesus, Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy. Now Obama was added.
It’s up to us to not let the GOP weasel. Our efforts cannot stop.
Lol, did you read about the CR?!
he was a proxy for soros
that was a brilliant post
i leave it there
True enough, but he still did it.
And no one stopped him; every single alphabet agency and internal security apparatus just let him subvert us.
System failure all around.
And we’ll be paying for his treachery for decades now.
they will hunker down for three years and then emerge, like Pauxatawny Phil, to the sample the wind direction.
A bow can only propel an arrow forward if the string is pulled backwards. The further the pull, the farther the flight.
In other words, you are correct in your assessment.
😊
I just want to see the fear in his eyes in the presence of Donald Trump.
Yes!!
I am 74 also, and punk has been in my mouth since my youth also. You are right, he is “diminished.” A diminished P-U-N-K!!!!
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He’s an evil piece of crap scum.
Welcome Home, brother!
Merry Christmas.
| One of the biggies for me is the number of high tech executives who attended the Inauguration and other events around that day. Most notably: Don't see Bill Gates, but I think Gates hates Trump and all he's doing. Wonder why. . . |
indeed, perfect post! 2020 was for Trump a very painful but necessary learning experience—he was naive and too trusting and decided to play it safe with his choices, and they were almost to a man, dreadful and disloyal-—they were as bad as his current ones are good and GRATEFUL for the job and the serious challenges uncovered on a daily basis.
Well said. He now has probably the best team in our history.
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