Trump Touts His Tireless Winning

Last night, President Trump delivered his first address to the 119th Congress. It was decidedly not called a “State of the Union” address — signaling perhaps a revolutionary break from the legacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who renamed the Presidential address in 1934. Despite Trump-Vance being the first Republican ticket since Reagan promising not to gut New Deal entitlements, as part of rock-ribbed fiscal reforms, Trump can be seen as an anti-Roosevelt President. FDR was the architect of much of America’s unelected permanent bureaucracy. Between 1933-1945, public sector employment grew from half-a-million to three-and-a-half million. This figure remained stable until Elon Musk took a metaphorical chainsaw to the knotweed of America’s Deep State. Now, outlets like NBC lament how DOGE is ending the IRS and Department of Education’s ability to act as a patronage system for racial grievance-mongers. Trump rattled off a list of cancelled USAID programs, including millions spent on vegan activism in Zambia, circumcisions in Mozambique, and an Arab Sesame Street. The President said these were scrapped because “no one knows what that is”, but we do: a divide-and-conquer strategy to pit populations foreign and domestic against each other on the basis of race and sex. Whereas the Founding Fathers fought a revolution against taxation without representation from the English crown, the second Trump Presidency is a bloodless “common sense revolution” against administration without representation on behalf of the American public. As President Trump said, “We are draining the swamp… and the days of rule by unelected bureaucrats are over.”

House Democrats stomped up and down like Rumpelstiltskin, once his true name had been discovered. They waved signs saying “FALSE”, and “MUSK STEALS” — showing how entitled they feel to extract wealth from American taxpayers and redistribute it to NGOs and client groups. They howled and hollered when Trump pointed out he “won the popular vote by big numbers”, and were drowned out by chants of “USA” from the Republican side. Ilhan Omar’s face soured when Trump touted having “ended the tyranny of so-called Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policies … and our country will be Woke no longer”. Others looked crestfallen at the news that a terrorist responsible for murdering American servicemen during Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal had been apprehended and extradited to the US to face justice.

Speaker Johnson had Rep. Al Green removed from the chamber by the Sergeant at Arms, after the congressman refused to stop shaking his cane at Trump, like the President had set a lemonade stand up on his lawn. Green has already promised to introduce articles of impeachment against President Trump; but this time, such #Resistance reads like an impotent tantrum. Their malformed redefinition of “democracy” — to mean not one-man, one-vote, but a censorship of dissent by unelected “experts” to ensure predictable victories for progressive policies, presumed to be in everyone’s innate egalitarian interests — means that they cannot accept their repudiation at the ballot box. But if they are so determined to remain at odds with a majority of the American public, good luck to them in the midterms. In times like this, I suggest we employ the Conan Principle: you can infer victory by your enemies’ willingness to lie crushed and lamenting before you.

Trump can credibly claim victory on his policy suite alone. While Obama administration officials concern-troll that “This Isn’t the Donald Trump America Elected” at Cope and Seethe HQ (The New York Times), 70% of voters say that Trump is keeping his promises, and describe him as “tough”, “energetic”, “focused”, and “effective”. Poll numbers are especially positive among Generation Z: with Trump gaining a +10 approval rating among Zoomers. Envy is beginning to migrate across the pond to the UK, with a third of Gen Z willing to vote for Trump, and over half of the general population supporting Trump’s deportation, DEI, and energy policies.

Capitalizing on this popularity, Trump chose to invite female athletes, endangered by Democrats’ transgender activism, to the address. Payton McNabb was partially paralyzed with a traumatic brain injury, after a trans-identifying man spiked a ball at her face during a volleyball match. She sat beside Second Lady Usha Vance, and was applauded as Trump reiterated his ban on men invading women’s sports. Riley Gaines also attended, alongside Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh — both of whom have campaigned against the surgical mutilation and chemical castration of gender-confused children and adults, at significant cost to their safety. Their presence represents the administration’s commitment to reward their campaigning: as President Trump signed an executive order in January, prohibiting minors (under 19) from being prescribed puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and from being subjected to barbaric cosmetic surgeries under the euphemism “gender-affirming care”. Children like James Younger, taken to California against the wishes of his father to be sterilized by his trans-activist mother, are now protected thanks to President Trump. As he said in the speech, “Our message to every child in America is you are perfect exactly the way God made you.”

Sabers were sheathed across Europe yesterday, when President Zelensky agreed to sign President Trump’s mineral acquisition deal. Staunch supporters were astounded by Zelensky’s decision to pick a fight with Trump and Vance in front of the cameras last week, in the White House. Perhaps he overestimated the extent to which he could leverage a sympathetic media and NATO member states’ leaders against America. After an admonition on Truth social, Zelensky posted on X that “Ukraine is ready to sign it in [sic] any time and in any convenient format.” Trump can claim victory here: procuring potentially lucrative mineral deposits across Ukraine, and challenging Russia, China, and BRICS in the global rare earths trade; while also keeping his promise to his base to not deploy US troops in any more unwinnable “Forever Wars”.

This resource procurement strategy is influencing the administration’s policy on acquiring Greenland, and placing tariffs on Canada. Some may be confused as to why Trump refuses to retreat from tariffs, when it has induced a temporary dip in the US’ economic forecasts. Headlines proclaimed doom when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell over 1,300 points, after 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico took effect on Tuesday at midnight. The dollar, too, has fallen to a 16-week low against the Euro. However, Austrian economist Ralph Schoellhammer notes that the dollar has fallen this year from a 7.3% rise in November 2024 — after Trump was elected President. The economy is still strengthening under Trump, providing cushioning for the administration to use its position as global hegemon to achieve foreign policy goals. This is what the tariffs hope to achieve: prioritizing political security through economic leverage. Accessing the rest of North America’s lumber, oil, gas, gold, and mineral reserves matters just as much as repatriating manufacturing, securing Atlantic shipping lanes, and stopping the Chinese Triad and Islamist groups smuggling fentanyl and Jihadists over the northern border into Minnesota and Michigan. Hence why Trump announced plans to expand the ability to prospect and mine for rare earth minerals in the USA in the coming weeks; and the imposition of reciprocal tariffs on other nations, starting April 2nd.

Thanks to bulldog Tom Homan’s televised mass deportation efforts, the sitting administration has also achieved the lowest number of southern border crossings since records began. 8,300 foreign nationals were apprehended while attempting to cross the border in February, compared to over 130,000 encounters in both February 2023 and 2024. Unleashing ICE will spare American taxpayers hundreds-of-billions of dollars in costs, and American families like Laken Riley’s and Jocelyn Nungaray’s the grief of losing their daughters to illegal migrant crime. Two weeks ago, Trump designated the Venezuelan gang their murderers belonged to, Tren de Aragua, alongside the Mexican cartels, as foreign terror organisations. This enables the US to use lethal force in the apprehension, detention, and removal of their members from the country. As he said in the speech, “The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation — “We must have legislation!” — to secure the border. But it turned out that all we really needed was a new President.”

In a beautiful moment, President Trump signed an executive order renaming the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge in Texas — a “sanctuary for all of God’s creatures” on the edge of the Gulf of America — in honor of Jocelyn Nungaray. Her mother, Alexis Nungaray, was in the audience and thanked the President for the compassion shown to her family. While his Democrat opponents depict him as a deranged demagogue, President Trump has shown time and again that he truly does care about America’s bereaved Angel Families.

There is more to do, of course. Ill-preparedness, complacency, and infighting in the Republican party cost Trump the completion of the southern border wall in his first term. Congress must act quickly to use their slim majority to enshrine Trump’s executive orders in legislation passed through the house. But for the time being, it was enjoyable to watch the President crack jokes and maintain momentum throughout — unlike his predecessor, who would lose any coherence he had halfway through when his medication wore off. The victorious tone of Trump’s address truly was a vibe shift away from the blood-drenched divisiveness of Biden’s “Battle for the Soul of the Nation” speech. This renewed confidence is why the US Army is seeing its best recruiting numbers for fifteen years. When people feel they have a home to belong to, they feel compelled to fight and defend it. 

Truly, Trump never tires of winning, and neither, I think, will the American people.