Any fans of Tropic Thunder know by analogy that you never go full-Pollyanna.\u00a0 And it would be wise for me to tamp down any outbursts of unbridled enthusiasm but I gotta tell you I can\u2019t do it.\u00a0 And this isn\u2019t predicated on the IG report burying Comey & Company or Mueller calling it quits in the near future or even the Republicans holding onto the House.\u00a0 I no longer think any of those things are required for Trump to get some big things done.\u00a0 The country at large is starting to see what really is going on in their government and I think they see who is doing things that help them and who is not.\u00a0 The G7 press conference and the Singapore meeting have provided President Trump with a stage from which to address the country directly.\u00a0 They are seeing an active leader who actually addresses American concerns in the international arena.\u00a0 Even his enemies like Bernie Sanders have no choice but admire his negotiating talent and ability to get off the dime with such tough customers as China and North Korea.<\/p>\n
I think Donald Trump is intent on using his instincts for deal-making to renegotiate the globalization project in a way that re-establishes America as a manufacturing nation.\u00a0 And I think Trump wants to dump all the international relationships with countries that hate America.\u00a0 And that is my favorite side of him.\u00a0 He is a vindictive bastard who holds a grudge like nobody\u2019s business.\u00a0 By a funny coincidence, so am I.\u00a0 It would warm my vendetta-loving heart to see him giving all our many false friends in the United Nations a hearty heave-ho over the side of USS America First.\u00a0 Every tin-pot Latin American, African and Middle Eastern dictator who ever chanted death to America should get evicted from his digs on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and sent packing back to the inhuman hellhole he came from.\u00a0 And I think he intends to use the NAFTA negotiations to address the illegal immigration problem.\u00a0 After all, why would you give free trading access to a country that openly advocates flooding your country with illegal aliens?\u00a0 And I think the NAFTA negotiations are the basis for President Trump\u2019s statement that Mexico will pay for the wall.\u00a0 He will make them pay for the NAFTA agreement with a closed border and repatriation.<\/p>\n
So that\u2019s why I\u2019m a big old optimist.\u00a0 And every day The Donald says or does something that makes me smile or chuckle with unrestrained schadenfreude.\u00a0 Every shot he takes at Hollywood or The Press or The Swamp or the Dems is music to my ears.\u00a0 And now, even when I hear of the latest anti-Trump atrocity (like by that imbecile De Niro), I am only mildly amused to think that these buzzing gnats are impotently attacking a giant that doesn\u2019t even have a weapon small enough to use on them.\u00a0 They can only be mocked or ignore.<\/p>\n
Of course, this does leave me with a problem.\u00a0 Ginning up outrage is sorta my whole stock in trade.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to have to find a new source of outrage.\u00a0 Hmmmm.\u00a0 Well, I could go after nuns.\u00a0 I still owe them payback for the 8th<\/sup> Grade.\u00a0 That might work.\u00a0 Okay Sister Gertrude, put on your game face, it\u2019s on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Any fans of Tropic Thunder know by analogy that you never go full-Pollyanna.\u00a0 And it would be wise for me to tamp down any outbursts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,818,6],"tags":[26,1141,1142,1143,16,540],"class_list":["post-3262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-ocf","category-trump","tag-american-exceptionalism","tag-de-niro","tag-nafta","tag-the-wall","tag-trump","tag-trumpocalypse"],"yoast_head":"\n