Donald Trump’s second year as president will go down as one of the most eventful in our country’s first 250 years, largely because he has time and again made fools of experts who doubted his methods.
For decades, at least since the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, we have viewed presidents as guardians of our democracy, not boosters of it, but Trump has acted, seeing the biting caution of a Congress that couldn’t pass a bill to decide where we would have lunch.
These actions have paid off, even if the traditional media doesn’t want to admit it, and they are reasons to be excited about what the next three years will have in store.
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I’ll give you five examples where the pundits said Trump was crazy, but in reality it all worked out just fine.
1. Closing the border
Before Trump took office, Democrats had assured the American people that the border could not be closed without congressional action, and experts strongly agreed.
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“A president does not have the unilateral authority to close the border,” stressed Alberto Benitez, director of the Immigration Clinic at George Washington University Law School, for example in 2024.
That has proven to be simply and objectively incorrect. According to Customs and Border Protection, zero illegal immigrants have been released into the country for seven straight months, not 1,000, not 100, but zero.
The border is closed. It’s actually unbelievable, but when something incredible happens, we all too often accept it as the norm, as if it has always been that way. No. Trump made that possible.
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2. Rates
On “Liberation Day,” as Trump called it in the spring of last year, rates went through the roof for almost every country and the stock market immediately plummeted, with experts predicting that the president’s popularity would plummet just as quickly.
We were told on every TV network and in every serious financial magazine that stockbrokers would soon be selling apples on street corners from carts in black-and-white photographs.
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“This is a disaster, and anyone who says otherwise is lying,” the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee wrote on X at the time.
In fact, Trump’s “yuge” tariffs were an opening position, and as a result, approximately four billion trade deals have been negotiated. Whether those deals are fun or not, the stock market is at record highs today and everyone on Wall Street is still in color.
3. Bombing Iran
Critics of Trump, both from the left and the right, warned that if he were to attack Iran, it could unleash unrest in the Middle East and perhaps even World War III!
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Ryan Crocker, a distinguished chair in diplomacy and security at RAND, said before the attack: “… air power alone is unlikely to eliminate Iran’s ability to produce nuclear weapons,” adding: “Perhaps U.S. military forces could convince Iran to agree to such restrictions. If not, it will widen the conflict and strengthen Iran’s determination to acquire nuclear weapons at all costs.”
Once again, Trump was right and the experts were wrong.
What actually happened was that the US military, led by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, neutralized the same nuclear program that Barack Obama and his friends wanted to contain through appeasement.
Now Iran’s murderous regime is on the brink of destruction because Trump refused to listen to the experts.
4. Crime in Washington, DC
The murder rate in Washington DC fell by 40% last year, second only to Denver at 41%. For almost half of that year, President Trump deployed the National Guard to protect the city and its citizens.
But what did the experts say at the time about deploying the National Guard?
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David Kennedy, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, said: “When communities feel they are not being properly policed, they stop helping. It is very common for what is perceived as unlawful police action to result in spikes of violence. And that is what I am very concerned about in this case.”
The experts insisted that the Guard wasn’t even in the areas where most crime occurred, but Trump, who witnessed former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s miraculous anti-crime transformation of Gotham in the 1990s, knew better.
According to The Trace, there was immediate improvement: “From August 11 to October 11 – the first two months of Trump’s rise to power – 41 people were shot in Washington, 10 of them fatally. That’s a 62 percent decrease in shootings compared to the same period last year.”
The Trump administration’s policing is working. And everyone knows it.
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5. The cabinet
Whether it was Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Sean Duffy or Pam Bondi, almost all of Trump’s cabinet picks, except maybe Marco Rubio, because everyone loves Rubio, were seen by critics on the left as sycophantic wannabes who had nothing to do with their roles.
Jonathan Hanson, a political scientist and lecturer in statistics at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, said a year ago, “We’re in untested waters,” and continued, “It’s true that people’s norms have shifted, but the question is, when is a line really crossed?”
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In practice, Trump’s administration has been one of the most effective and cohesive cabinets in modern history and has produced several successes for the president, as noted above. Not only that, but hours of televised Cabinet meetings have kept Americans quite informed about what they are actually doing.
The expert class demanded that their own people fill these coveted spots and basically ensured that nothing much would change, even though they used big words to pretend that it would.
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That’s not how Trump rolls, at least not in his second term.
The American people must hope that the Trump administration continues to confuse the expert class and the Davos conglomerates of skinny billionaires.
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The pundits are rooting for Trump, as they should be, but they’re not on top. Instead, America’s interests come first, and time and time again he always seems to prove the experts wrong on that point.
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