I remember reading about Trump’s life in a book by his niece, that awful Mary Trump, and the book was meant to make people like me — resistance libs — hate Trump even more than we already did.
“Nothing they ever said he would do, he did. There are no mass graves or body bags. No one was thrown in jail for protesting. He didn’t start World War III. There are no real “concentration camps.” The case against Trump by the left exists in their collective imaginations. “
But those things are ALL on the list of things they want to do to us, and in many cases already have, (Jan 6th protestors hunted down and tossed into prison, igniting the Ukraine/ Russia war, killing seniors in nursing homes, trying to imprison AND assassinate the president), and they’ll do far worse if they ever taste power again. They’ve said it OUT LOUD themselves.
It is eerie how the projections of the Left work. You are right Suzie that these items are on their list. Heck Hochul and others in NY State suggested camps for those that refused the COVID vaccine. The street violence is already a “feature” courtesy of the Left/Dems/radicals. As is censorship (to wit the Twitter Files and CISA, still underway in Europe btw). The amount of propaganda based on outright lies (Russiagate) as well as lawfare, well heck, President Trump is one tough cookie despite all the attacks. In fact, he looks younger now than he did in Jan 2021.
Notably, even with the Iran War Trump has stopped bombing to pursue peace multiple times, despite the intransigence of the mullahs, IRGC, Basaaj and whomever else is running that country to the sorrow of their citizens.
To hear what real violent fascism is in fact, I recommend listening to “The Rest is History” podcast episodes on the rise of the Nazis. Many echoes of EXACTLY what the Dems/Left are doing. I doubt that the two Brit hosts even grasp how serious an indictment of the globalist/progressive Left their narration provides.
The constant attacks on Trump are all about Democrat party power. That is all it is or ever was. To get the People to turn on Trump, especially those marginal voters which went for Trump in 2024, the Democrat party media must smear him and paint him as an "existential threat" to America and even pay to bring TDS-infected podcasters like Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens or ex-politicos like MTG, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, into their camp. In reality, all that is threatened with irrelevance is the Democrat Party. This is also the reason the party apparatus now embraces the Far Left, the Marxists and Anarchists it used to disavow / ignore. Now, the Dems need their enthusiastic fringe and so they play to them, pushing aside moderates. We have seen that this round of primary elections, like Leftist Raman catching Karan Bass, herself an avowed Communist, just not adequately extreme for the new party mojo. It seems to me this sprint to the Far Left will fail. There are too many sane Democrats who at some point will say "no mas" to their party's extremism and will either vote for some independent or even secretly for a GOP, who are almost all moderates today.
Batya has a really great column up today about Europeans, here for the World Cup, are discovering an America (a red America) that is nothing like the America portrayed by the elitists in our (and their) media and they are loving it. Little things like free refills on coffee, biscuits & gravy, Ranch dressing, the vastness & quaintness of flyover America, country music, and of course, the abundance that too many of us take for granted.
In some ways, the Real Trump is like the Real America. When you get to know them, you find that they are not what the opposition want you to believe.
"the abundance that too many of us take for granted", especially Millennials and GenZ, who have never wanted for anything. They think that executive homes and Doordash delivered gourmet food should be guaranteed with no effort required. Us Boomers and GenXers all had to struggle. We entered the work force as America was hit by late 60s dysfunction and then massive inflation which required a deep and long recession to quell. Half of my college graduation class could not find a job. I was fortunate to get a couple offers and took the one paying the most, $22.5K in 1982 (my other offer at an Ad Agency was for $13K). Even in the $ of that era, it was hard to buy a car and pay rent on two of those incomes. We struggled for the next 15 years until I advanced up the ladder to a point where income made us comfortable. That is just the way life is.
Exactly. And our first home, 980 square feet in an old Scrubby Dutch neighborhood in South St. Louis, cost $30,000 with an FHA mortgage at 13%. (That's THIRTEEN percent for you youngsters who think 5 percent loans are a ripoff.)
Yes! And our furniture and furnishings were hand me downs and used at out first 2 or 3 residences (rented, mostly)... It was many years before we could buy new cars and new furniture and appliances.
It took me years to get a TV, and then when I got one, it was a small-screen black & white. I used a milk crate to sit it on, because I didn't have any furniture except a few hand-me-downs from some kind people at work.
I’m still surprised at how people we think are reasonable intelligent professionals who can wish death absolute death and assassination with no concern about who might get in the way of that bullet— and they’re respected and admired local upstanding pillars of their society and it’s just gut wretchedly awful
I always supported Trump people would say oh he’s grass he’s brash he can’t shut up. He gets in his own way and I would say yes, but you know who he is that is who he is and he is a New Yorker that is a New Yorker who has worked in that state building buildings that are phenomenal and gets it done and that’s what you want in a president to work past all of the stuff, the stuff they wanna throw up in your way and get it done. I’m so happy he’s doing the ballroom. I’m happy he’s cleaning up the reflecting pond. I’m happy he’s getting DC cleaned up. Its crime rate is Down normal. People are safer. He’s fixing remodeling the Kennedy center all those people that were cheering the taking down of his name, how many people there had attended the building had expressed their concerns about the disrepair that that building was in nobody cared until he put his name on it now they’re all up in arms. It is it is the height of hypocrisy.
Anyway, your thoughts were right on thank you as always, and I’m thankful to God for people like you who have a voice for people like me who don’t have that audience
Happy birthday President Trump on this wonderful Flag Day
And happy 250th anniversary of the founding of this country. It is a wonderful time.
Thanks for resharing your Trump's Hero Journey. I missed it 2 years ago but it's perfect to celebrate his 80th birthday. I appreciate your creativity in telling good stories.
Washington DC is scoundrel central. Trump hate is purely about him being an outsider. Before running and beating Hillary he was loved by the liberal A crowd. But the Clintons were the Obama's before the Obama's. Bill was "the first black President" before the first half black President. Hillary was Bill's Queen and allegedly the brains behind Bill's winning personality. The Clintons loved to call Trump whenever they needed money for whatever grift they were working on.
Then all of a sudden Trump was not welcome in progressive polite society. He was banished for daring to challenge the queen. One day Oprah is calling just to chat. The next day you're Hitler. What a head twist!
Trump's would be the greatest Presidential memoirs ever written. Probably the only one I will ever buy. Talk about your slings and arrows! I would be curled up on the floor of my cell in some mental institution by now if I had to fend off attacks from the whole of the world progressive media-political elite. He has a lot of FU money and can't be bought unlike Nancy, Hill and Bill. But at one point he was spending 90K per day on lawyers. (some of it donated- but still!) But the boobs only succeeded in getting him re-elected. The problem is who could be trusted to write the story? The publishing houses are snobby, woke asshole central; every bit as bad as Hollywood- maybe worse. He needs someone who writes great crime novels from a police perspective. I don't really know her politics; but Karin Slaughter seems like the right fit. If 6 degrees of separation is real Sasha could probably bring Trump and Karin together.
You should read Eric Trump's book UNDER SIEGE. It's very good. Eric is a devoted, loving son and he sounds like a remarkable person, as well. I was very impressed with his recording of this history.
My two sisters are very unhappy about the UFC fighters being accorded high military honors as they left the Lincoln Memorial last night. Our dad was a naval officer, retired as a three star, and the youngest of us, as a commander. It does seem pretty tasteless to me, and it undercuts what Trump is accomplishing.
“Last night…Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fighters held a press conference at the Lincoln Memorial in advance of the UFC cage matches to be held at the White House on Trump’s 80th birthday on Sunday. Trump sent the United States Army Herald Trumpets, the U.S. Army ensemble chiefly responsible for playing the entrance and exit fanfares for the President of the United States, to open the event.
The fighters walked from Lincoln’s statue down the steps of the memorial through the Armed Forces Full Honor Cordon, a pathway formed between two groups made up of sixteen service members in dress uniforms. This is the U.S. military’s highest ceremonial formation, usually reserved for heads of state, foreign dignitaries, senior officials, and funerals for military heroes.”
If you like Trump as a rule-breaker and shit-stirrer you have to take him no matter which rules he breaks. He does many cringy things. He loves boxing and fighting. It captures who he is. In his mind, this is the creme'-d-la-creme' of fighting and they deserve the honors. Most military people love UFC because they are also fighters at heart and in fact. I doubt many of them will be offended.
Trying to work in a Peace in the Middle East deal guarantees that there that there will not be a No Nukes deal, in the non-short run. Politics is the art of the possible. And so is war. What we have here is A Bridge Too Far. Once the Iranians have their money, they will resume straining every nerve to get their will.
You say that "Politics is the art of the possible" and then you declare taking away nuclear capability from Iran is impossible. So which is it?! I think with our Navy parked off Iran's shore and our Air Force ready to go in Kuwait and Bahrain, we can keep Iran under our thumb. If they so much as fire one missile, all hell will rain down on them again. Do you know they have lost over 300 of their leadership? You think the next tier once to get obliterated? These IRGC talk a good game but what is the point of defrauding your people for billions $$ if you can't enjoy it? They just need to be allowed to say whatever they want to save face. We don't care
Jenny Holland, who I now follow thanks to a great discussion she had with Sasha, had a great line today in a Substack interview about Belfast. It basically was said by the other gal, but struck me as perfect for how we have felt about the left since they began to expose themselves. "You know when you are being condescended", not an exact quote but like when Hillary referred to us as deplorables, no ,matter how clever they are with choosing the perfect words or argument, their delivery always reeks of condescension. Trump has never had a hint of that towards all of us, and no matter his human faults, we know he loves America for the same reasons we do. This was a wonderful way to celebrate his birthday and our flag. thank you again Sasha!
“Nothing they ever said he would do, he did. There are no mass graves or body bags. No one was thrown in jail for protesting. He didn’t start World War III. There are no real “concentration camps.” The case against Trump by the left exists in their collective imaginations. “
But those things are ALL on the list of things they want to do to us, and in many cases already have, (Jan 6th protestors hunted down and tossed into prison, igniting the Ukraine/ Russia war, killing seniors in nursing homes, trying to imprison AND assassinate the president), and they’ll do far worse if they ever taste power again. They’ve said it OUT LOUD themselves.
It is eerie how the projections of the Left work. You are right Suzie that these items are on their list. Heck Hochul and others in NY State suggested camps for those that refused the COVID vaccine. The street violence is already a “feature” courtesy of the Left/Dems/radicals. As is censorship (to wit the Twitter Files and CISA, still underway in Europe btw). The amount of propaganda based on outright lies (Russiagate) as well as lawfare, well heck, President Trump is one tough cookie despite all the attacks. In fact, he looks younger now than he did in Jan 2021.
Notably, even with the Iran War Trump has stopped bombing to pursue peace multiple times, despite the intransigence of the mullahs, IRGC, Basaaj and whomever else is running that country to the sorrow of their citizens.
To hear what real violent fascism is in fact, I recommend listening to “The Rest is History” podcast episodes on the rise of the Nazis. Many echoes of EXACTLY what the Dems/Left are doing. I doubt that the two Brit hosts even grasp how serious an indictment of the globalist/progressive Left their narration provides.
The constant attacks on Trump are all about Democrat party power. That is all it is or ever was. To get the People to turn on Trump, especially those marginal voters which went for Trump in 2024, the Democrat party media must smear him and paint him as an "existential threat" to America and even pay to bring TDS-infected podcasters like Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens or ex-politicos like MTG, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, into their camp. In reality, all that is threatened with irrelevance is the Democrat Party. This is also the reason the party apparatus now embraces the Far Left, the Marxists and Anarchists it used to disavow / ignore. Now, the Dems need their enthusiastic fringe and so they play to them, pushing aside moderates. We have seen that this round of primary elections, like Leftist Raman catching Karan Bass, herself an avowed Communist, just not adequately extreme for the new party mojo. It seems to me this sprint to the Far Left will fail. There are too many sane Democrats who at some point will say "no mas" to their party's extremism and will either vote for some independent or even secretly for a GOP, who are almost all moderates today.
They will most certainly get back in power which is the scary thing.
Snort— really what year? if you are going to throw out vague silliness then have the balls to be specific.
If that them getting back in is bad, do something! But it is fair to observe that how can you when the game is rigged. And it is SO rigged.
Batya has a really great column up today about Europeans, here for the World Cup, are discovering an America (a red America) that is nothing like the America portrayed by the elitists in our (and their) media and they are loving it. Little things like free refills on coffee, biscuits & gravy, Ranch dressing, the vastness & quaintness of flyover America, country music, and of course, the abundance that too many of us take for granted.
In some ways, the Real Trump is like the Real America. When you get to know them, you find that they are not what the opposition want you to believe.
"the abundance that too many of us take for granted", especially Millennials and GenZ, who have never wanted for anything. They think that executive homes and Doordash delivered gourmet food should be guaranteed with no effort required. Us Boomers and GenXers all had to struggle. We entered the work force as America was hit by late 60s dysfunction and then massive inflation which required a deep and long recession to quell. Half of my college graduation class could not find a job. I was fortunate to get a couple offers and took the one paying the most, $22.5K in 1982 (my other offer at an Ad Agency was for $13K). Even in the $ of that era, it was hard to buy a car and pay rent on two of those incomes. We struggled for the next 15 years until I advanced up the ladder to a point where income made us comfortable. That is just the way life is.
Exactly. And our first home, 980 square feet in an old Scrubby Dutch neighborhood in South St. Louis, cost $30,000 with an FHA mortgage at 13%. (That's THIRTEEN percent for you youngsters who think 5 percent loans are a ripoff.)
Yes! And our furniture and furnishings were hand me downs and used at out first 2 or 3 residences (rented, mostly)... It was many years before we could buy new cars and new furniture and appliances.
It took me years to get a TV, and then when I got one, it was a small-screen black & white. I used a milk crate to sit it on, because I didn't have any furniture except a few hand-me-downs from some kind people at work.
Europeans are the most provincial people in the world.
Sasha, you are awesome!
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Happy Birthday Mr. President 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
You are such a good person! Always a delight!
Oh, that’s a great story
I’m still surprised at how people we think are reasonable intelligent professionals who can wish death absolute death and assassination with no concern about who might get in the way of that bullet— and they’re respected and admired local upstanding pillars of their society and it’s just gut wretchedly awful
I always supported Trump people would say oh he’s grass he’s brash he can’t shut up. He gets in his own way and I would say yes, but you know who he is that is who he is and he is a New Yorker that is a New Yorker who has worked in that state building buildings that are phenomenal and gets it done and that’s what you want in a president to work past all of the stuff, the stuff they wanna throw up in your way and get it done. I’m so happy he’s doing the ballroom. I’m happy he’s cleaning up the reflecting pond. I’m happy he’s getting DC cleaned up. Its crime rate is Down normal. People are safer. He’s fixing remodeling the Kennedy center all those people that were cheering the taking down of his name, how many people there had attended the building had expressed their concerns about the disrepair that that building was in nobody cared until he put his name on it now they’re all up in arms. It is it is the height of hypocrisy.
Anyway, your thoughts were right on thank you as always, and I’m thankful to God for people like you who have a voice for people like me who don’t have that audience
Happy birthday President Trump on this wonderful Flag Day
And happy 250th anniversary of the founding of this country. It is a wonderful time.
Thanks for resharing your Trump's Hero Journey. I missed it 2 years ago but it's perfect to celebrate his 80th birthday. I appreciate your creativity in telling good stories.
Washington DC is scoundrel central. Trump hate is purely about him being an outsider. Before running and beating Hillary he was loved by the liberal A crowd. But the Clintons were the Obama's before the Obama's. Bill was "the first black President" before the first half black President. Hillary was Bill's Queen and allegedly the brains behind Bill's winning personality. The Clintons loved to call Trump whenever they needed money for whatever grift they were working on.
Then all of a sudden Trump was not welcome in progressive polite society. He was banished for daring to challenge the queen. One day Oprah is calling just to chat. The next day you're Hitler. What a head twist!
Trump's would be the greatest Presidential memoirs ever written. Probably the only one I will ever buy. Talk about your slings and arrows! I would be curled up on the floor of my cell in some mental institution by now if I had to fend off attacks from the whole of the world progressive media-political elite. He has a lot of FU money and can't be bought unlike Nancy, Hill and Bill. But at one point he was spending 90K per day on lawyers. (some of it donated- but still!) But the boobs only succeeded in getting him re-elected. The problem is who could be trusted to write the story? The publishing houses are snobby, woke asshole central; every bit as bad as Hollywood- maybe worse. He needs someone who writes great crime novels from a police perspective. I don't really know her politics; but Karin Slaughter seems like the right fit. If 6 degrees of separation is real Sasha could probably bring Trump and Karin together.
You should read Eric Trump's book UNDER SIEGE. It's very good. Eric is a devoted, loving son and he sounds like a remarkable person, as well. I was very impressed with his recording of this history.
Funny, I always think it’s the left that will put us in concentration camps.
👍🏻❤️🙏🏻🇺🇸
Brilliant.
Happy birthday Mr. President.
The worst thing that could ever happen to Mary Trump is that her uncle could die.
Sasha, you are the best! Don’t ever change.
My two sisters are very unhappy about the UFC fighters being accorded high military honors as they left the Lincoln Memorial last night. Our dad was a naval officer, retired as a three star, and the youngest of us, as a commander. It does seem pretty tasteless to me, and it undercuts what Trump is accomplishing.
“Last night…Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fighters held a press conference at the Lincoln Memorial in advance of the UFC cage matches to be held at the White House on Trump’s 80th birthday on Sunday. Trump sent the United States Army Herald Trumpets, the U.S. Army ensemble chiefly responsible for playing the entrance and exit fanfares for the President of the United States, to open the event.
The fighters walked from Lincoln’s statue down the steps of the memorial through the Armed Forces Full Honor Cordon, a pathway formed between two groups made up of sixteen service members in dress uniforms. This is the U.S. military’s highest ceremonial formation, usually reserved for heads of state, foreign dignitaries, senior officials, and funerals for military heroes.”
If you like Trump as a rule-breaker and shit-stirrer you have to take him no matter which rules he breaks. He does many cringy things. He loves boxing and fighting. It captures who he is. In his mind, this is the creme'-d-la-creme' of fighting and they deserve the honors. Most military people love UFC because they are also fighters at heart and in fact. I doubt many of them will be offended.
Trying to work in a Peace in the Middle East deal guarantees that there that there will not be a No Nukes deal, in the non-short run. Politics is the art of the possible. And so is war. What we have here is A Bridge Too Far. Once the Iranians have their money, they will resume straining every nerve to get their will.
Or not. You just read/watched about a man who takes on all comers and wins, and you think the Iranians will beat him? Guess again.
You say that "Politics is the art of the possible" and then you declare taking away nuclear capability from Iran is impossible. So which is it?! I think with our Navy parked off Iran's shore and our Air Force ready to go in Kuwait and Bahrain, we can keep Iran under our thumb. If they so much as fire one missile, all hell will rain down on them again. Do you know they have lost over 300 of their leadership? You think the next tier once to get obliterated? These IRGC talk a good game but what is the point of defrauding your people for billions $$ if you can't enjoy it? They just need to be allowed to say whatever they want to save face. We don't care
Jenny Holland, who I now follow thanks to a great discussion she had with Sasha, had a great line today in a Substack interview about Belfast. It basically was said by the other gal, but struck me as perfect for how we have felt about the left since they began to expose themselves. "You know when you are being condescended", not an exact quote but like when Hillary referred to us as deplorables, no ,matter how clever they are with choosing the perfect words or argument, their delivery always reeks of condescension. Trump has never had a hint of that towards all of us, and no matter his human faults, we know he loves America for the same reasons we do. This was a wonderful way to celebrate his birthday and our flag. thank you again Sasha!