Trump’s Best Week (and the Democrats’ Worst)

Trump’s Best Week (and the Democrats’ Worst)

Sunday, February 2 – Kansas City Chiefs from “flyover country” win the Super Bowl over San Francisco Forty Niners from elitist sanctuary state and lawless West Coast.  The whole Kansas City team is scheduled to come to the White House.  No “resistance” absences as in prior years.

Tuesday, February 4 – Inspirational State of Union speech by President Trump with Nancy Pelosi giving republicans many campaign commercials by ripping up the speech on national TV.

Botched democrat caucus in Iowa with democrats in disarray, while the world awaits the caucus results.  Democrat caucus turnout abysmally low at 160,000, not the 240,000 hoped for.

Wednesday, February 5 – President Trump acquitted by the senate on two articles of impeachment.  Trump approval rating 10 points higher than when impeachment inquiry started.  Economic approval rating is 63%, and 90% of the country happy and satisfied with their personal life. 74% of the country feel they will be even better off in a year.

Still only partial Iowa caucus results while democrat candidates head to New Hampshire for next primary.  Both Buttigieg and Sanders claim victory, with the vaunted Biden a distant 4th

Thursday, February 6 – Dueling pressers by Trump and Pelosi.  Trump first at prayer breakfast with low key criticism of Pelosi’s “prayerful” antics and Romney’s professed excuse of faith in his defection by voting to find Trump guilty on the first count of the impeachment.  Next Pelosi presser doubling down on her ripping up the speech and “sour grapes” pontifications and rationalizations.  Then the Trump White House “victory lap”, waving the bold Washington Post “ACQUITED! headline, thanking all of his minions who helped in the impeachment farce, Thanking and apologizing to his family and laying into Pelosi, Schiff and the democrats for perpetrating a “hoax”.

Still only partial results from Iowa caucuses, now a national embarrassment for the democrats.

Friday, February 7 – A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously throws out a lawsuit by more than 200 Democratic members of Congress that alleged President Trump was improperly profiting from his presidency.  (by receiving emoluments). 

The jobs report shows 225,000 new jobs in January.  Expected were 160,000 new jobs.

Democrats hold a debate in New Hampshire which highlight major divisions in the party.  Do they nominate an avowed Marxist, the glib mayor of a poorly run small town, a nepotism tainted senior citizen, another controversial multi-billionaire senior citizen, a mercurial individual with an ever-changing plan?

President Trump fires Lt Col Vindman from the National Security Council, and EU Ambassador Sondland.  Vindman’s twin brother, Eugene also leaves.  Lt Col Vindman is being reassigned to the Pentagon.  News reports did not comment on Eugene Vindman or Gordon Sondland.

President Trump seems to be “cleaning house”, as is his prerogative, after his acquittal by the senate.  These members of the executive branch work for the President, and it only natural that he would get rid of people who do not follow his policy directives, act counter to these directives, and in fact act against him and his orders.

The leftists and the mainstream press continue to yowl against the tide of real American public opinion, 90% of whom are satisfied with their lives in this booming economy, with everyone working who wants to work, and with mid-range and blue-collar incomes at nearly record levels.  These yowls are like baying against the positive wind of the economy. Independent voters, and even some honest democrats recognize these negative “sour grapes’ as the destructive “Trump derangement syndrome” that is not accomplishing anything, and is only harming our wonderful country.

Ray Gruszecki

February 7, 2020