President Donald Trump had a huge Mother’s Day weekend, fitting in a perverse way since so many potty-mouthed Democrats like to refer to him as a mother(something).
While most celebrated their mothers in recent days, Trump and his people were busy negotiating the framework to a trade deal with China; producing a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, a couple of nuclear powers shooting at each over their border; getting Hamas to free an American hostage; and, just for the icing on the cake, Trump signed an executive order to reduce drug costs.
Also, Trump has Qatar offering him a free replacement Air Force One, since Boeing can’t seem to get its act together on the plane it is contractually obligated to deliver for this purpose.
Predictably, the media and Democrats are having a cow over the Qatar plane, interrupting their current mission of grandstanding outside ICE detention facilities, or even interfering with ICE arrests on the street, to gripe about this gift and lament its appearance of Trump being bought off.
Funny, none of them had problems about Hunter Biden’s “jobs” seemingly on the strength of Daddy Joe’s political office.
As one text message on the Monday night Jesse Watters program asked, does this mean we need to give the Statue of Liberty back to France?
It’s got to be tough to be an anti-Trumper. Oh, were there long faces on CNBC Monday. You’d think a business channel would be giddy on a day the Dow Industrials were up 1,100 points or so with similarly large gains in the NASDAQ and S&P 500 indices, owing largely to the China trade progress.
But, no, these Cassandras were caught with their pants down after predicting doom since Trump came out with his tariff plans in early April. Surprise, the initial negative kneejerk reaction, resulting in large losses in the stock markets, has been largely recaptured, with interest.
Truly CNBC’s Steve LiesMan had a bad day.
As noted on this blog last month, the only way to lose during the tariff overreaction was to panic sell. If you kept your wits – and your positions — you are fine today.
Trump told people not to be Panicans. Did they listen? Some, perhaps.
I lost some of my net worth Monday due to the collapse of the gold price by about $100 an ounce. But the metals and mining stocks have run up hard in recent weeks — one of my IRA’s hit a multi-year high Friday — and this pullback likely is little more than a pause that refreshes.
Regardless, I’m glad to take one for the team, that being the United States. Funny, I don’t see similar sentiments emerging from the cabal of leftist freaks that now makes up the Democrat party.
And the anti-America domestic crowd figures to have a tough few days coming as Trump embarks on a Mid-East trip that likely will produce more good news. Already, some pundits are trying to get ahead of it, saying Trump had things lined up in advance to be announced on the trip.
But, even one of these naysayers offered that just maybe there will be something huge. After all, that’s Trump.
Trump famously has said during his campaigns that his supports will get tired of all the winning his terms produce. His first term was notable, until COVID-19 was weaponized to hamstring him. Now, this second term is producing at a much higher tempo.
But, no, I’m not nearly tired of winning yet.
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