President Donald J. Trump wields America’s precise military might and economic power around the world like no other president before him. Here are eight victories that led to the 100% restoration of American leadership.
1. Operation Midnight Hammer
Seven B-2 bombers dropped specially designed precision munitions into the airshafts of Iranian nuclear weapons factories. Iran’s threshold nuclear weapons capability was destroyed. Yes, Israeli strikes had pounded Iranian air defense sites, but it took more than 100 American fighter jets and a huge bridge of refueling tankers to carry out the attack on June 22. Trump consistently said Iran would never have a nuclear weapon. “I don’t know if they took him seriously until the night the B-2 bombers went to Fordow,” U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said later. The world is safer and this will be the standout military decision of Trump’s presidency.
2. Ceasefire in Gaza
Only Trump could have accomplished this. On October 8, Trump announced that Israel and Hamas had agreed to a ceasefire and that Hamas would return hostages. Trump then gathered most of the major world leaders in Egypt to support the deal. The Gaza deal validated Trump’s tactics of ruthless negotiation, personalized and taken to the next level by the leadership of Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. There is still a lot of work to be done, but the Abraham Accords process is back on track.
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3. The F-47
After years of delays under the Biden administration, Trump on March 21 awarded the F-47 contract to Boeing to build the Air Force’s sixth-generation fighter. Air power is the backbone of America’s global power. This was proven in World War II, from Midway to Normandy and around the world. The US Air Force has shaped every conflict since. With the F-47, Trump is pushing for dominance in advanced engine technology, sixth-generation fighter aircraft and combat drones. Now if only they could buy the US Navy a new F/A-XX fighter plane to extend the attack range of aircraft carriers.
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A B-2 stealth bomber flies over Whiteman Air Force Base near Knob Noster, Missouri, in May 2003. The bombers were used in the Trump administration’s recent airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear program. (Joe McNally/Getty Images; AP/Markus Schreiber)
4. Venezuela and the Western Hemisphere
Speaking of aircraft carriers, the arrival of the USS Gerald R. Ford in the Caribbean on November 16 was a doubling down on Trump’s decision to clean up the Western Hemisphere. Secretary of State Marco Rubio scored the first victory in January when Panama limited Chinese ownership interests around the Panama Canal and agreed not to renew its membership in China’s Belt and Road program. The pressure on Maduro’s drug boats and oil tankers is aimed at taking down a dangerous cartel. This is also the start of a battle for the Western Hemisphere. Victory comes when the narco-terrorists are under attack and the US, not China, is the business partner of choice.
5. Securing the border
The numbers speak. In October 2025, Customs and Border Patrol reported a total of 30,573 encounters at borders nationwide, a number that was 92% below the Biden administration’s peak of 370,883 encounters in December 2024. That closed the pipeline for individuals on the terror watch list, as well as those mysterious Chinese border crossings.
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6. Prosperity for Ukraine
In a complete reversal from the strategic stagnation of the Biden years, Trump’s dealmaking has charted a path to prosperity for Ukraine. Step one was the Strategic Minerals Joint Venture, signed on April 30. Now the peace plans negotiated by Witkoff include quick access for Ukraine to the European Union’s common market, a goal Ukraine has long sought, plus a grain transport route via the Black Sea and access to electricity from Zaporizhia’s immense nuclear power plant. Can an AI data center be far behind?
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7. Put AI on the national security agenda
Speaking of which, Trump has rewritten the criteria for national security by involving American tech titans. Americans cannot be safe unless American AI technology wins the race for global primacy. We are ahead of China, but not by much. Some of Trump’s $20 trillion in foreign investment goes to tech infrastructure; he also recognizes that our American technology giants must be free to capture their global market shares, from chips to data centers to AI applications. Only they have the money to compete with China’s state-funded innovators.
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8 Nigeria
ISIS lost their so-called ‘caliphate’ in Syria and Iraq in 2019, but the threat has not disappeared. ISIS is a global network. Consider the December 25 attacks against ISIS terrorists in Sokoto State, Nigeria, as part of a long-term strategy to crush ISIS strongholds. Since July 2025 alone, US forces had conducted more than 80 operations against ISIS targets in Syria. “We will root out and eliminate terrorist jihadists wherever they hide,” said Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of United States Central Command. And that was before Operation Hawkeye Strike hit 70 ISIS targets in Syria on December 19. This is a war America will continue to wage against radicalism, anti-Semitism and terror.
Note what’s not on this list: China. The Pentagon’s annual report on China, released Dec. 24, says the U.S. homeland is increasingly vulnerable as a result of China’s military buildup. China is on its way to nine aircraft carriers and a thousand nuclear warheads. Trump’s policy has been to keep quiet and push for economic coexistence as he works to reset trade deals and bring crucial manufacturing back home. He’s scored points, but only a full build-out of more Navy ships, a stronger Space Force, the Golden Dome missile defenses, and a bunch of factories will bring victory.
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