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May 16, 2025

Night & Day

If you think of America like a business, Biden was the slacking employee. Trump is the guy who’s the first one in every morning and the last one out every night.

Over the past four years, a national scandal unfolded right before our eyes. With each passing day, it was obvious to the American people that Joe Biden was not capable of being an effective president of the United States.
 
But powerful people in the White House, Democrat leaders in Congress, and the leftist media were gaslighting and manipulating us. “Joe Biden is fine; sharp as a tack,” they insisted. “Don’t believe your lying eyes.” Anyone who suggested otherwise was spreading disinformation.
 
Now, we’re getting more and more evidence that Biden never really was president. A third book will soon be released about how Democrats covered up Biden’s mental decline.
 
Three books about what Democrats knew and tried to hide from you! Let that sink in. Clearly, there’s a lot to be learned about this scandal.
 
This cover-up is criminal behavior! Biden’s “presidency” was a total fraud! Republicans can’t just let this go. There must be a full investigation.
 
Biden was rarely seen in the mornings. He’d show up for one brief scripted event in the afternoon and then disappear for the rest of the day. Contrast that to what we’re seeing now. It’s night and day.
 
President Trump is scoring unbelievable accomplishments in the Middle East, racking up victory after victory for our nation.
 
The incredible economic deals he has secured will bring trillions of dollars into the United States, creating millions of new jobs. He’s promoting peace in a key region of the world while warning our enemies that they’ll regret challenging us.
 
In virtually every foreign trip Joe Biden took, there were incidents of his wandering off. It’s like the heartbreaking call from a family member, “Dad has wandered away from the nursing home again.”
 
We saw him wander off into the jungle. We saw him wander away from world leaders. When he came back from foreign trips, he would disappear for days, “recovering” from jetlag.
 
Donald Trump flies the same distance, gets off Air Force One, and immediately gets to work. He crams 36 hours of work into a 24-hour day!
 
If you think of America like a business, Biden was the slacking employee. The guy who was always late getting in and who always cut out early. Donald Trump is the guy who’s the first one in every morning and the last one out every night.
 
He’s working tirelessly to make America great again.
 
 
 
Trump & The Troops
 
Yesterday, President Trump spoke to U.S. troops at Al Udeid Air Base – the largest U.S. military base in the Middle East. It was one of the most awe-inspiring and patriotism-inducing events I have ever seen. The president said:
 
“My trip is four and a half days, but this [event] is the one I was so looking forward to, because I’m with the people that I really love and respect. We love and respect you.”
 
But you only saw this if you got up early and turned on Fox News. Trump’s address to the troops wasn’t on CNN, MSNBC, or any of the morning network shows.
 
If you want to understand why the country is so divided, this is why.
 
The left-wing media only wants to tell you fake news about Trump mocking and insulting our heroes. (He did not!) And it refuses to show you the president praising our men and women in uniform in one of the hottest of the world’s hot spots.
 
The idea that Donald Trump is causing the divisions in America today is ludicrous! The Left knows that if the American people see an unbiased view of him, they are doomed. So, they censor the news at all costs.
 
 
 
Terror Attack Thwarted
 
Ammar Abdulmajid-Mohamed Said was arrested Tuesday for planning to attack a military base in Michigan. Said is a radical jihadist and a former member of the Michigan Army National Guard. Think about that. The base Said targeted manages 60% of the Army’s equipment supply chain.
 
Thankfully, undercover FBI agents had been monitoring Said for weeks. The FBI let the investigation play out all the way to the day of the planned attack. When Said drove to the base, what do you think he did first? He got a drone out of his car and launched it to surveil the base.
 
This has been happening at American bases for years now, and no one has any explanation for why it’s happening. But it is exactly what our enemies would do. We should assume that every American military base has already been mapped out by multiple enemies of the United States.
 
When U.S. bases in Iraq or Syria are attacked, we just shrug and move on. I guarantee you we will see the day when U.S. bases in America are attacked again, just like Fort Hood, by enemies within.
 
 
 
Solar Sabotage
 
The radical Left in America is obsessed with climate change and “green energy.” The Biden administration was all in on forcing America to abandon fossil fuels for so-called “renewable” energy sources, including wind and solar power.
 
I have consistently warned that these technologies are too expensive, insufficient, unreliable, and even dangerous. They are dangerous because communist China has cornered the market on solar panels and wind turbines. Why would we ever surrender our energy production to a communist enemy? And that’s exactly what they are.
 
U.S. engineers recently discovered that Chinese-made solar panels contain “communication” devices that have no reason to be there. Once the panels are installed on a home, a business, or on a solar power farm and connected to the grid, we have no idea what these devices could do to the grid.
 
One report described them as “kill switches.” An energy expert told Reuters the Chinese devices could be “a built-in way to physically destroy the [U.S. power] grid.”
 
This is the same thing the communist Chinese have done with drones and the cranes at our ports. And they have admitted that they hacked into our critical infrastructure.
 
This is the bitter fruit of the people who for decades told us that “free trade” and globalism would give us more prosperity and turn the Chinese Communist Party into the Chamber of Commerce. Even now, with all we have learned, they still think Trump’s tariffs are the danger to our future.
 
 
 
Buttigieg Gets Busted
 
The 2028 presidential contest is already under way. Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who held a town hall event in Iowa this week, is clearly contemplating a second run at the White House.
 
He is distancing himself from Joe Biden, who is now despised by Democrats, and paying homage to Kilmar Garcia, the Left’s patron saint of open borders. But he might want to think twice because his record as transportation secretary is coming under scrutiny.
 
When the tragic crash between a civilian jetliner and a military helicopter occurred at Reagan National Airport, Buttigieg denied any responsibility and blamed the Trump administration, even though Sean Duffy had been transportation secretary for one day.
 
In reality, Buttigieg bears the blame. And the Washington Post has the receipts:
 
“A hotline connecting air traffic controllers at Reagan National Airport and their counterparts at the Pentagon has been ‘inoperable’ since March 2022, a Federal Aviation Administration official confirmed Wednesday, further evidence of poor safety coordination between federal agencies responsible for the airspace where a midair collision in January killed 67 people… [the FAA] was not aware of the outage during the three years it was down.”
 
Who was transportation secretary in March 2022? Pete Buttigieg. He was also the transportation secretary in 2023 and 2024. He spent his time talking about “racist” highways and DEI. He was nowhere when a train derailment decimated working-class families in East Palestine, Ohio.
 
It takes an incredible amount of chutzpah for Buttigieg to blame Trump and Duffy. But the Left has no shame, and it will ALWAYS politicize tragedies.
 
 
 
The President v. The Judges
 
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday in a case challenging President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment. But the precise meaning of the 14th Amendment wasn’t the main subject of yesterday’s emergency hearing.
 
The Trump administration explicitly asked the justices to rein in the abuse of nationwide injunctions by 677 federal district court judges. Every one of those judges seems to believe they have more power than the president.
 
While the court’s conservative justices have expressed frustration over the increasing use of nationwide injunctions, yesterday’s arguments offered no clear indication of which way the majority of justices might rule.
 
Constitutional Law professor Jonathan Turley said, “If the oral argument in the Supreme Court is any indication, there is more heat than light so far.”
 



 
Honoring Fallen Heroes
 
This week is Police Week, and yesterday the country observed National Peace Officers Memorial Day to honor the law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty over the past year.
 
Sadly, we have added too many names to the memorial of fallen officers in the past because of the anti-police ideology that dominated the last four years. Never forget that the Left wanted to defund the police.  They want to defund ICE now.
 
The Left routinely uses demonizing rhetoric against police officers and immigration enforcement agents that will inspire more thugs to kill more of these brave men and women.
 
All the passion we see from Democrats in Congress, the media, and left-wing advocacy groups about the treatment of illegal aliens in our country we never see when an American citizen is killed by an illegal alien. Nor do we see that kind of passion when a police officer is gunned down in the line of duty.
 
The next time you see a local police officer or a federal law enforcement officer, thank them for the extremely difficult job they are doing to keep us safe.
 

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