Commentary
Since the one-year mark of President Trump’s second term, I have been musing the reviews from my stack of stuff. You’ll get a sense of what the media thinks in the mixed bag of thoughts I’ll share with you.
“Trump’s many 2025 wins clearly showed why we were right to vote for him,” Nicole Russell, USA Today
“From the moment Trump began his second term, we saw one of the busiest administrations in recent history enact changes for the better at a frenetic, unprecedented pace.
“Critics predicted that in 2025, Trump would upend constitutional norms and provoke the demise of our democracy. He disappointed them in many ways.
Foreign Policy
Listening to the president, he continues to believe the U.S. is again admired around the world, and that President Biden was the laughingstock. With that, however, some in the media have been critical of the time he spends on foreign policy while seemingly neglecting the economy here at home.
Pew Research reported, “a year into his second administration American’s views of President Donald Trump – already more negative than positive – have continued to slip.”
“Where Trump is Loved and Loathed Around the World,” – Newsweek
“The Pew findings highlight a complex and increasingly polarized world attitude toward U.S. leadership under Trump,” reported Newsweek.
Despite the Pew findings, “Trump Is Surprisingly Good for the World” was the headline in the Wall Street Journal over a column by Walter Russell Mead.
Mead began citing 2025 as a tough year, “With the Trump administration breaking every rule in the diplomatic playbook and generally upending long-established pillars of American policy.”
That shouldn’t have surprised Mead. Trump has been critical of previous U.S. foreign policy, especially that of Biden, Blinken and Sullivan.
“After decades of appeals to democratic solidarity failed to move either European or Japanese leaders to face reality, Mr. Trump resorted to harsher methods,” wrote Mead. “So far the results look promising.”
Dueling Opinions
USA Today gave two gentlemen an opportunity to opine on Trump’s first year of the second term:
“Trump had a messy year, but you can’t deny his successes on our behalf,” – Tim Swarens, Deputy Opinion Editor
Swarens was especially high on Trump’s actions on illegal immigration but cited how well he has handled foreign policy as “one of the great and welcome surprises of his second term.”
While mentioning some pros and cons on Trump, Swarens said, “But he still beats the alternatives.”
“I’m a conservative who didn’t vote for Trump, and I don’t regret it,” – Dace Potas, Opinion Columnist
Clearly a sufferer of Trump derangement syndrome, Potas wrote that Trump “failed to even meet my extremely low expectations for responsibility competence and decency.”
Enough said.
Noonan Comments
Just as I have taken some printed comments made about Trump and added a note or two, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan chose to query acquaintances she claims were of “mixed political disposition.”
Her column, What’s New in Trump Two, was surprisingly positive when you consider what Noonan, an east coast elite, really thinks of Trump.
“He’ll be a trope, an instantly recognizable figure, to America and the rest of the world for the rest of this century and beyond,” she declared.
She wrote of two Trump supporters who said, “He is more confident” and “hjs capacity to stick to the script and at the same time drive a wider range of concerns.”
Crediting the GOP
In a carryover from his first term, Trump has fulfilled his promise to cut regulations, but the Daily Caller credited Congressional Republicans for undoing 22 regulations issued in the final months of the Biden presidency.
“By reining in Biden’s heavy-handed bureaucrats, we are saving Americans $180 billion, Senator Barrasso said in a floor speech. “That pencils out to over $2,000 in savings for each and every family.”
Final Thoughts
A foolish fringe of Minneapolis-St Paul residents, augmented by paid outsiders, including Antifa, seem to prefer having dangerous illegals remain loose among them. They have succeeded in creating optics with their chaos over the existence of ICE agents that the leftist media are more than happy to televise.
Unfortunately, there are viewers of ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MNOW, easily swayed by reporters and anchors echoing the rhetoric of the governor, attorney general and mayor, who preach resistance.
While referring to ICE agents as Gestapo and jack-booted thugs, choice names that find their way into surveys driving Trump’s approval ratings down, it’s part of the plan to hurt the Trump administration in the midterms.
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
