While President Donald Trump has enjoyed a very successful first six months in office, there is currently division in the ranks of his supporters based on certain choices he has recently made and accusations he has leveled.
He was enjoying win after win, restoring common sense and sound policies. In the first month in office, he was successful at closing the southern border, after hearing for years that the only way that could happen was through congressional action on the old bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform. Within days of Trump’s inauguration, it was clear that wasn’t true. A few executive orders and a mindset that it was unacceptable to continue allowing hundreds of thousands of unvetted people to enter the country each month, virtually unimpeded, was what was needed. In closing the southern border, Trump has also prevented many deaths, rapes and other crimes.
He also did everything in the president’s power to end biological men participating in women’s sports and having access to girls’ bathrooms. He has made great strides in ending the practice of indoctrinating children, as young as kindergarten, with transgender ideology, leading them on a path towards genital mutilation and hormone blockers, often while hiding it from their parents. And he has begun the process of shutting down the Department of Education, returning control of schools to local, state and parental control.
He also undid the Biden executive orders that were intended to strangle U.S. energy dominance. Trump should really go all the way on this and put a stake in the heart of the climate change hoax instead of dancing around it. Yes, he calls it the “green new scam,” which it is, but he should also bring the scientists around to prove once and for all the lie of human-caused climate change as an existential crisis, or any kind of crisis at all. This chance may not come again.
Trump has also prevented many deaths and injuries through his work to end the wars that littered the planet upon Biden’s departure from the White House, and prevent others from gaining traction. He stopped wars or about-to-be wars between India and Pakistan, between Congo and Rwanda, between Israel and Iran, though that one requires a deeper dive.
He ended the appeasement and enrichment of Iran, which occurred in spades under Biden. And he has arguably prevented a war in the Balkans, between Serbia and Kosovo, largely through diplomacy and economic threats. While Trump has been nominated more than once for the Nobel Peace Prize, it won’t happen. They don’t want to get their offices bombed, plus they hate Trump as much as Stephen Colbert does, and everyone at MSNBC.
The tariff wars and impact of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” appear to be working to America’s advantage, but time and perspective will help better understand that. While the spending wasn’t cut nearly to the satisfaction of most Trump supporters, it prevented a massive tax hike by ensuring the tax cuts from his first term were made permanent, rather than allowing them to expire. But his team is counting on a major supply-side growth rate, fueled in part by the trillions of new dollars of investment coming into this country, to actually reduce the deficit.
Trump has thankfully withdrawn the U.S. from the World Health Organization, the Paris Climate Accords and UNESCO.
But what is now starting to fracture Trump’s base of support and giving the left – the media, the Democrats, the district judges, the blue states, and the deep state – hope that Trump’s approval ratings are about to drop, which could lead to a Democratic pick-up of the House next year in the midterm elections, are about a half dozen issues that his administration has been conflicted on and unclear in their messaging of exactly where things stand.
These are among those issues: In light of Russia’s refusal to agree to a ceasefire and engage with Ukraine, Trump has started to back Ukraine with weapons again, though Europe will be paying for them; Israel-Iran; the Butler, Pa. assassination attempt; Epstein; spending levels; the national debt; and the need to hold people accountable, where provable, who engaged in lawfare against Trump; and those who were paid tens of millions of dollars from Communist China, such as the Biden family.
An unfortunate number of MAGA people have turned against Israel, arguing that Israel is leading Trump around by the nose and dragging him to more Middle East forever wars. It’s not true, and Trump is defying those critics, making it clear how much he respects what Israel is facing, and his commitment to stand with them, as they are on the front line every day. Israel and the U.S. are allies and partners, with Israel taking the brunt of Iran’s wrath, facing down the jihadist universe, as the recent Iranian-backed seven-front war that they have beaten back demonstrates, with the help of the U.S.
Israel is a beacon of freedom and democracy in a region of the world where there is very little of either. As an ally for the U.S., the benefits in return from Israel are great. No one has better intelligence on the region, including the terrorist organizations, nor more experience and knowledge of how to defeat them. Israel is a laboratory for the use of weapons and other technology to prepare the West for the Middle East’s lurking threats.
The positions Trump has taken on these issues are a tall order for a lot of people who supported Trump and now feel betrayed. Most people who support Trump, or just prefer him to the Democrats, will accept these things. Where he may have crossed a line and lost some people is with his team’s handling of the Epstein matter, particularly his Truth Social post that people on his side who are carping about Epstein are playing into the hands of the Democrats, and are weak and stupid, and he doesn’t want their support. He started backing off that late last week, ordering Attorney General Pam Bondi to start a process to have the courts release as much of the Epstein grand jury testimony as possible.
Also, what Trump has working for him is that Epstein was arrested six years ago this month on federal charges under the Trump administration, locked up in prison, and set to be tried when he allegedly committed suicide, which many if not most Trump supporters don’t accept or believe. And secondly, if the Biden administration had anything that implicated Trump in Epstein’s sexual scandals, they certainly would have gone public with it, or at least would have leaked it. Why didn’t they release the files?
Is Trump going after his political enemies? Perhaps, but based on the declassification by DNI Tulsi Gabbard late last week of the evidence of a plot hatched in 2016 led by Barack Obama, which included the participation of Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, James Comey, Jim Clapper, Andrew McCabe and more, to undermine the presidency of Trump based on deliberate lies and manufactured evidence, it would be wrong not to go after them. After all, no one is above the law, not even ex-presidents. Trump certainly wasn’t given a pass, as the Biden administration spent years trying to put him in prison and break him.
Trump will probably hold his base, and with the Dems at or near an all-time low in terms of public approval, and angry and confused about how they lost to Trump, they are in turmoil over which way to go from here. Pretend to be moderate? Or go full Mandami, complete with the language of no prisons, controlling the means of production, globalizing the intifada, climate change hysteria, cashless bail, transgender ideology, sanctuary cities, and open borders?
Epstein could be the landmine that separates Trump from his base of supporters, though he’s banking on the fact that it won’t. The left finally has something they think they can ride all the way to the midterm elections next year and beyond. Let’s see what the next six months bring!
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