I voted for Donald Trump twice. But I’ve never used the words “altruistic” or “generous” to describe him. In fact, whenever my support for Trump came up, I always hastened to add, a little sanctimoniously, that I don’t like the man personally.
I might be changing my mind. Here’s why.
Trump didn’t need to go into politics. He’s a billionaire. He had everything a man could want, including a gorgeous ex-model for a wife. (Money is a more potent aphrodisiac than power. Sorry, Henry Kissinger – you’d have known that if only you’d had money.)
Trump went into politics anyway. Sure, there was an ego factor. I hope it doesn’t surprise you that successful men have egos. So do successful women.
But Trump could have exercised that healthy ego in many other ways involving less risk and less cost. He could have bought a cruise ship, or a gold-plated 747, or donated a billion dollars to get a medical center named after him, or started a charitable foundation – a real one, not like the Clinton Foundation.
He instead chose to run for president back in 2016. That doesn’t make him Mother Teresa, but it makes him a lot closer to Mother Teresa than to Joe Biden – the guy who has spent a lifetime in politics because he’s been a failure at every other thing in life, including parenting, and whose lifetime in politics has been primarily for the purpose of lining the greasy, grafty and grifty pockets of himself and his cheesy, sleazy family.
After winning the 2016 election against all odds, Trump did a lot of good things in office. He tightened up the border. Inflation was low. Employment was high. He nominated and got confirmed three Supreme Court justices who think their job is to interpret the law, not make it.
A bit afraid of Trump, the world stayed mostly at peace. There was no war in Ukraine or Gaza. There was no humiliating stampede out the door of Afghanistan.
Trump browbeat NATO into paying more (but still not the share they’d agreed to) for the defense of Europe. He boldly moved the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem – the capital of Israel and the ancient capital of Judea.
Hamas knew that Bibi Netanyahu backed by Donald Trump were not to be messed with.
Trump achieved these things over the objections of a truculently hostile media and Democrat opposition that impeached him twice and fabricated allegations of treasonous collusion with the Russians (who the Democrats stopped liking in 1989). Those knowingly false allegations of treason were themselves treasonous, and the Dems have still paid no price for making them.
Then Trump lost his re-election bid. Maybe he lost legally, and maybe not. We do know that the Democrats used the crisis of COVID to change the voting rules in the middle of the game. Now they’re making those rule changes permanent – changes such as mail-in voting with no requirement for ID to concoct another electoral chaos not followed anywhere in Europe, Japan, Australia or other democracies.
After leaving office in the wake of that election day fiasco, Trump could have just gone back to Mar-a-Lago. As a billionaire former president in his mid-70s, he could have just played golf for the rest of his life. Most men in his position do that. Did Howard Hughes ever run for president? Did Hugh Hefner? How about a guy I admire, Warren Buffett?
No, no, and no.
Trump is cut from a different cloth. He disputed the 2020 election conducted under the COVID cloak. He did so angrily, too angrily. But he didn’t just talk the sore-loser talk. He also walked the I’ll-be-back walk. He immediately began campaigning for the 2024 election.
He has now beaten a very able pool of Republican challengers (the last of whom is beaten and doesn’t know it) before we’ve even gotten to Super Tuesday. For a non-politician, the guy’s got game.
Democrats are terrified of him, as they should be. Unwilling to engage him on substance, they’ve launched “law-fare” against him. They’ve put him on trial in a biased New York state court for bogus fraud allegations. They’ve charged him criminally in Georgia in a case already notorious for kickbacks and criminal perjury committed by the District Attorney, her incompetent boyfriend/special prosecutor, and the boyfriend’s former partner, all of whom should be awkwardly sharing a prison cell.
There’s also a BS case about Trump taking documents out of the White House, something you’re not supposed to do unless your last name is “Biden” and you put them in tattered boxes in your locked garage (ohwww!!!) and disclose them to no one except persons without security clearance who fraudulently ghost-write your book.
I would say that the jury is still out on these cases, except that quirks in the law have so far precluded even the impaneling of a jury. A weirdo New York state court judge visiting from Mordor slapped Trump with a $350 million judgement, sans jury, and refuses to stay it pending Trump’s appeal.
Altogether, Trump is looking at some half-billion dollars or more of exposure. It’s possible that he could be sentenced to prison.
He soldiers on. Not to reap small-time graft for himself and a corrupt, druggy family the way Biden does – heck, Trump could buy and sell the Biden family shake-down business a thousand times over – but because he thinks the country needs saving.
About that, he’s right.
Trump and I have different lives, different personalities, different styles, different bank accounts, and different sizes. But whatever his failings, I admire and respect him for putting at stake his life and fortune for the country I love. Thank you for that, Mr. President.
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Nice piece. But you forgot the part about listening to the weasels Fauci and the Birx and locking down an entire country while giving legal immunity to big Pharma for untested “vaccines” that kill people. Yeah, that part. PS Don’t you think the reason he runs is because of his one big gigantic ego? I don’t give him a pass. I give him a fail for what might have been.
A gigantic ego is not an unusual thing in a president, nor necessarily a bad thing. I certainly prefer it over the small-time grifters who currently inhabit the WH.
I don’t know, Who oversees the CDC? Who funds it? Who regulates big Pharma?-the executive or legislative branch. I remember Trump’s platform promises of the wall, energy, taxes, and jobs. I googled that question and the negativity made me recall the movie Bruce Almighty.
Wow, must be nice sitting in the cheap seats with your “20 – 20 hindsight”. Of course you knew that giving Fauci/Brix full control to lock the country down and give untested “vaccines” would kill people. If only you could have gotten your clairvoyant insights to the President, the world could have been spared a lot of misery and heartbreak. PS, I think your ego could give Trump’s a run for his money.
Obviously you are a democrat because you are unaware of the facts.
Mr. Brophy, Donald Trump did not lock down the country. He left that to the states, and most democrat governors pushed that to the hilt. He did not give legal immunity to big pharma, congress did that back in Reagan’s era by passing legislation. Thank you Mr. Beaton, for a very good article that reflects the majority of Americans.
Do you really think Trump had a choice? With the “drive-by” media solidly against him, if he had opened the country after those first 15 days, he would have been excoriated for every death on newspapers’ front pages and on scrolling banners at the bottom of every newscast. Fauci and Birx would have been constantly on display telling how they could have saved all those people but Trump doomed them to death. He was in a no-win situation and tried to do the best he could.
Do you really think Trump had a choice? If he had opened the country after those first 15 days, he would have been excoriated in the “drive-by” media. Every newspaper would have had front page headlines showing how many people died because of Trump. Every newscast would have had banners showing the death toll from “Trump’s inaction”. Fauci and Birx would have been constantly interviewed telling the viewers that “if only” they had been in charge so many people could have been saved. He was in a no-win situation, and did the best he could.
Six mayors in California were the first in the country to issue shelter-in-place orders on March 16, 2020. Other counties and states soon followed. It wasn’t an order from the president.
Legal immunity for drug companies was given by the government before the pandemic. Look up the PREP Act.
Trump had nothing to do with it.
As for listening to Fauci, why wouldn’t he? Don’t presidents have to depend on experts in some matters? Fauci was an immunologist that had been with the NIH since 1968, working on contagious diseases.
I don’t care about Trump’s big ego because he does love this country. The people in power now don’t, and they’re destroying it.
Have faith; the God of Abraham/Sinai, Yeshua and 1776, after empirically evidencing existence with the Convergence Matrix, is fully engaged and will not allow the two men He has chosen to protect Israel unto the end of human history as it is understood and a new beginning with Yeshua as Moshiach in 2026 Jerusalem just 856 days hence to fall…Trump and Netanyahu.
The Convergence Matrix holds that history should be looked upon as an equation fused with history and wagering Blaise Pascal’s probabilities mathematics e.g. the miracle election of Trump in 2016 has only one parallel in history; the Battle of Midway that witnessed all the right assets and all the right people in all the right places at exactly the right time for exactly the same reason…to purchase American time to rise and defeat fascism.
One can easily calculate the 856 days yields July 4th 2026 which has no meaning without context. July 4th 2026 is exactly 250 years (a key to unlock matrices spanning 6000 years derived from the deaths of Jefferson and Adams on July 4th 1826) after the signing of the Declaration of Independence…and as it concerns Netanyahu exactly 50 years after the miraculous Raid on Entebbe that resulted in just one Israeli loss; Yoni Netanyahu, brother of Bibi.
Finally, the raid on Entebbe is today’s conflict in microcosm; Marxist and Islamic terrorists took over 100 Israelis hostage…so too the Convergence Matrix which identifies Muhammad and Marx/Engels to their birth years with the formative dates in the development of western civilization squeezed in between.
The final confrontation between good and evil has begun…pitting those who adhere to the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” against those who do not; the false religion of human intellectual arrogance, Marxianity, posing as a political ideology in an utterly incongruous alliance with a political ideology, Islam posing as a religion…with both seeking to destroy the United States so as to destroy Israel.
It really is that simple.
Mr. Brophy, Donald Trumps did not lock down the entire country, he left that to the individual states and most (especially democrat) governors pushed that to the hilt. He also did not give legal immunity to Big Pharma, that was done by congress during the Reagan years. Thank you Mr. Beaton, for a very good article, and one that most of America agrees with.
Yay! Good on you, Glenn! My feelings, exactly. Thank you.
Thank you — God Bless America, Trump & You (agree and appreciate your updates on what I’ve not followed as intensely as you..)
Your description of the Biden family in your sixth paragraph is RIGHT ON!
when will we all learn that an election is not a casting call? I realize that people want to like the person they elect but fall into the trap of judging competence based on personality. The current political class is no longer made up of “girlie men.” It is made of up “mean girls” of both sexes which is even worse. Get a grip.
Re Trump’s achievements, let’s not forget that he decimated Isis quickly at relatively little cost just like he said he would after 8 years of Isis growth under geniuses Obama and Biden—and you know that the terrorists were planning to come for our necks. He responded to the medical call for Covid vaccines by overseeing their production and mass production in “miraculous” time—even though Biden claims credit, falsely, for the mass production. He did that and more, all while fighting off the Russia hoaxes, emoluments nonsense, etc. Not bad for a flawed guy.
he has done some truly altruistic things. you should go research.
Amen!
Thank you!
Another way to look at this, and put into perspective …
Joe Biden entered public service some fifty years ago and he got rich; a millionaire several times over. He did all this while being paid a government salary.
Donald Trump began building his business some fifty years ago and he got fabulously rich; a billionaire several times over. Yet, when DJT entered government service, he actually made less, a LOT less on a government salary than when he was in private business.
A crony and mendacious career politician gets rich while in public office. On the other hand a highly successful real estate and entertainment businessman goes into public office and loses money (his own personal wealth) while serving the nation.
Who is the real patriot, and who is the real crook?!?
Need I even ask? The answer should be quite obvious. G’day …
Good point! After what happened to him he really should have taken the salary.
Trump has unilaterally pledged to us as well as the Founding Fathers his life, fortune and sacred honor to make America, great again.
Trump is only interested in himself, he thinks soldiers who died serving the country were suckers, he doesn`t like wounded soldiers, he was instrumental in the Jan. 6 insurrection, he lies like a dirty rug, he stabs his former associates in the back, his closest former advisors do not support him anymore , he attacks allied NATO nations. neither he nor Biden are worthy of being president.
Glenn, you left out Trump’s magnificent foreign policy achievements. First, he ended the NoKo threat to Japan and the rest of the Orient. None of the geniuses at State had gotten anywhere with the Kims after three generations, and Trump brought Jung Kim to heel with no loss of life or even blood.
Second, he oversaw implementation of the Abraham Accords, bringing stability and peace to most of the Middle East for the first time in 76 years.
Either of these achievements by itself was Nobel worthy. That neither was even mentioned for that recognition demonstrates how corrupt even the Nobel Prize has become.