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We are all familiar with the feeling of neck muscles relaxing, jaws relaxing, and fists relaxing after prolonged periods of stress. People were understandably feeling all this while watching President-elect Donald Trump’s massive press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Monday.
Over the past four years, as America has watched President Joe Biden’s mental state decline steadily and precipitously, we’ve become accustomed to the stress of watching Scranton Joe appear in public, almost praying that he’ll pull through .
No one is really listening to what Biden is actually saying, and on the rare occasions when he speaks, we watch to see if that cold, blank look returns to our Commander-in-Chief’s eyes.
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So on Monday, as Trump engaged in more than an hour of entertaining and informative rhetorical sparring with the media, it was as if the sun of real, credible leadership finally shone on Biden’s years of cloud and ambiguity.
Ostensibly, the reporter got the call to announce that Japanese businessman and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son had announced a $100 billion investment in the United States, which he said would create 100,000 new jobs in the United States.
We’ve become accustomed to the stress of watching Joe Scranton appear in public as we watch four years of Biden’s continued precipitous decline in mental health.
The senior executive from the Far East also said that he did this because Trump’s election made him optimistic about the economic future of the United States.
That’s good enough, but wait, there’s more.
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As usual, Trump soldiered on, answering nearly every question from the press corps, including many that the current administration has struggled to effectively address.
Take the mysterious giant drone in New Jersey that has been plaguing the Biden White House for a week. What does Trump think? Here’s what he said on Monday: “The administration knows what’s going on. For some reason, they don’t want to comment. I think it’s best for them to say what our military and our president know.”
This is exactly what most people are asking for from the Biden administration, and instead we’re getting an ever-changing, wide-ranging set of answers that now condescend to, “Don’t worry, everything’s fine.”
Trump also successfully put out a fire for his nominee for Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a rather ridiculous idea, by assuring the public that his administration would not ban the polio vaccine. But even Republicans think the idea is right.
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“You’re not going to lose the polio vaccine, that’s not going to happen,” Trump said, adding, “Everything should be a concern, but I’m a strong supporter of the polio vaccine.”
This is again the tone that cautious Americans have been longing for. One might call it a scientific approach to science rather than relying on the bible of Dr. Anthony Fauci and the medical establishment.
As the minute hand on the clock fully spun on Monday afternoon, Trump addressed a potential pardon for New York City Mayor Adams, whom the president-elect said was being treated unfairly by the Justice Department in retaliation for Biden’s criticism of how the border is being handled.
Regarding the war in Ukraine, Trump reiterated his plan for a quick solution. Regarding Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, Trump said that he is making great progress. He also talked about the looming Tik Tok ban, meetings with technology executives, Getting federal workers back in offices, the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and more.
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But perhaps the best moment came when reporters asked the incoming president if he supported a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Trump’s response was, well, pure Trump, “Why would I say that? Can you imagine if I said yes or no? You would say: That’s a weird answer to that question. Would I preempt that or Iran? That’s A serious question?
It’s an extremely stupid question, but one that reveals the farcical drama between the media and the Biden administration, which is likely to respond with: “Nothing is off the table and we will continue to work with our partners in the region.” Allies chatter, blah, blah.
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That breeze you hear blowing through every branch of our politics and government is the sound of millions of Americans finally exhaling because they know we once again have a president who can lead.
I have to say, it’s great that we are now so close to having a real President of the United States again who is doing his job.
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