It
is jarring to recall how much brighter things looked just 27 months ago, after
four years of President Donald Trump’s
triumphs, and before Biden arrived and wrecked everything.
From A to Z, here are 26 things that Trump got right:
Abraham Accords: Trump
brokered four peace agreements among Israel and other countries—Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates,
Morocco, and Sudan.
Border wall: Trump’s 458 miles of concrete and steel fortified the
border and curbed illegal immigration before Biden obliterated America’s
southern frontier.
Consular offices in
Jerusalem were upgraded to a U.S. Embassy, thus enforcing the relevant statute that
Presidents Bill Clinton through Barack Obama circumvented.
Deregulation: Trump
promised to kill two old regulations for every new one imposed. American Action
Forum counts 4.7 existing rules junked per new one implemented.
Energy Independence: Trump achieved the impossible dream of U.S. self-reliance and
then made America globally dominant as a net exporter of energy for the
first time since 1952.
Freedom-of-speech protection, per Trump’s executive order, became a prerequisite for
colleges to receive federal funds.
Gorsuch,
Kavanaugh, and Barrett joined the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, 223 other constitutionalists whom Trump nominated reached the
federal bench.
Historically Black Colleges and Universities scored an advocacy office in the
White House, a permanent stream of federal funds, and year-round Pell Grants,
to aid their summer school students. HBCU presidents begged Obama in vain for
these things. Trump invited them to the Oval
Office in his fifth
week in Washington, listened, and approved their requests.
Iran nuclear deal: Killed.
Javelin anti-tank missiles that Trump provided have helped Ukraine stymie Russian
invaders.
Keystone XL pipeline: Approved.
“Little Rocket Man,” Kim
Jong Un, met thrice with Trump. While North Korea did not scrap its
nuclear weapons program, it conducted zero atomic tests after this odd couple first huddled in Singapore on June 12, 2018. Kim detonated four nukes under Obama-Biden.
Mexico,
Canada, and the U.S. signed a new trade deal that replaced the North
American Free Trade Agreement.
NATO’s finances soared, as Trump prodded U.S. allies to boost Western
collective defense by $400 billion through 2024.
Opportunity Zones incentivized $78 billion in private capital to 8,768 largely low-income, minority
communities.
Poverty fell
to a rate of 10.5%, the lowest since 1959, when federal figures were first
collected. Before COVID-19 unleashed hell on Earth, the strongest economy in 60
years drove black poverty to 18.8%, a record low.
Qassem Soleimani,
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps chief, was droned to smithereens on Trump’s
order. Tehran’s ayatollahs promptly learned some manners.
Right to Try legislation
freed terminally ill patients to use promising treatments that awaited Food and
Drug Administration approval.
Space Force:
Trump’s out-of-this world promise became reality as the Pentagon’s newest armed
service.
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: This $1.9 trillion tax reduction unleashed massive economic growth that most benefited
lower-income Americans.
Unemployment hit all-time lows for blacks and Hispanics and
triggered the lowest female unemployment rate since September 1953.
Veterans secured
broader medical freedoms through VA Choice and swift punishment for abusive VA
employees.
Washington,
D.C.’s school-voucher program was reauthorized with a $45 million
appropriation.
Xi Jinping and
other Chinese Communist Party members restrained themselves when Trump deployed
his peace through strength strategy. Under Biden, Red China does whatever it
wants, from an unprecedented mock blockade of Taiwan to spy balloons vacuuming
up intelligence over America to U.S.-based CCP “police stations” that terrorize dissidents.
Yes votes for
the First Step Act totaled 358 in the House (including 176 Democrats) and 87 in
the Senate (among them, 47 Democrats). This overwhelmingly bipartisan
criminal justice reform measure
let nonviolent prisoners, many of them black, return to their communities.
Zero American wars began
under Trump. The dovish consequences of his hawkish command were exactly
the opposite of the “Push the nuclear button NOW!” belligerence that his
deranged critics forecast.
Wouldn’t four more years of Trump be better than four
years of Biden?
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/04/21/trumps-triumphs-from-a-z/
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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