January 22, 2026

Trump’s First Year

Donald Trump gets up every morning determined to make America’s influence greater.

The White House is celebrating the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term. And they have a lot to celebrate! The president’s accomplishments in 2025 were unprecedented.
 
Joe Biden got up every morning for four years trying to figure out how to shrink America’s influence. Donald Trump gets up every morning determined to make America’s influence greater.
 
It would take a book to include every one of Trump’s accomplishments here. You can read the White House’s list for a thorough review. Here are Trump’s accomplishments on a few issues in the news today.
 
Joe Biden let millions of illegal aliens in the country—12, 15, 18 million—nobody knows for sure because our borders were wide open and Biden wasn’t counting! We suffered through four years of record-breaking illegal immigration as criminals, drugs, gangs, and terrorists poured across his open border.
 
Donald Trump stopped that invasion within weeks. And he did it without any new legislation from Congress. Instead of record-breaking illegal immigration, we now have record-low illegal immigration.
 
Now, President Trump is focused on methodically removing criminal illegal aliens, really bad people, out of your community, keeping you and your family safe.
 
And what are the results? Drug overdoses, which hit a record high under Biden, are down 20% after Trump secured the border and started blowing up cartel drug boats.
 
There has been a historic drop nationwide in the murder rate after Trump deployed federal law enforcement, and even the National Guard, to cities that refuse to keep their streets safe. President Trump deported 7,000 gang members last year.
 
Conservatives now cheer the vast majority of Supreme Court decisions because Donald Trump appointed three constitutionalists to the high court. The radical anti-parent bureaucracy at the Department of Education is being dismantled.
 
Thanks to President Trump’s policies, the economy is booming, real wages are up, and inflation is down dramatically.
 
In Davos yesterday, President Trump shared all of these winning results with globalist big shots. Europe’s socialist leaders sat there while Trump told them how to grow their economies. (Hint: Less regulation, lower taxes, and less global warming nonsense.)
 
He told them people don’t recognize Europe any more because they are allowing millions of Third World migrants to walk into their countries. He had fun!
 
 
 
Everybody Relax
 
Okay, everybody can relax now. We’re not going to invade Greenland. Speaking in Davos, Switzerland, President Trump announced yesterday morning that the United States won’t use force to acquire Greenland from Denmark.
 
The confusion and hysteria over Trump’s rhetoric must be intentional ignorance on the part of his critics. They’ve seen him operate now for five years. He prepares the table for negotiations in a way that leaves people guessing what he might do, and he does this to the advantage of the United States.
 
It’s understandable that hostile media and hostile Democrats would go crazy because they have a direct interest in saying, “He’s insane! He’s going to get us into a war!” What is harder to explain is why some Republicans fall for this.
 
Sen. Mitch McConnell went to the floor of the Senate and said he couldn’t understand what Trump was doing, saying Trump’s rhetoric about Greenland could “shatter the trust of our allies.”
 
There are a gazillion articles that can be found with a simple Google search explaining the strategic importance of Greenland and the Arctic. Here’s an idea for those confused about Greenland: Go look at a globe. Breaking news: the world is round.
 
 
 
Why Greenland
 
Greenland is strategically positioned in the Arctic Circle. President Trump perfectly laid out why Greenland has everything to do with our security during his Davos speech yesterday.
 
It is a much shorter distance for our enemies to attack the U.S. if they fire missiles over the Arctic into the U.S. than if they fire from central Russia across the Atlantic or from communist China across the Pacific.
 
Here are some disturbing facts: Russia maintains a fleet of at least 40 icebreakers, including eight nuclear-powered icebreakers, that can clear a channel through the Arctic ice. Communist China has five icebreakers and is building more. How many icebreakers do we have? Three. That’s not a typo.
 
President Trump reminded the Davos audience that when Nazi Germany attacked Denmark in World War II, the Danish military was so weak that the country surrendered in six hours. Not much has changed since then.
 
Today, Denmark has only 20,000 active-duty military personnel. That’s not the size of the Danish army. That’s 20,000 personnel across all military branches—army, navy, and air force.
 
Denmark is not going to stop Russia or communist China from seizing Greenland. Once again, the United States would be expected to bear the burden of defending Europe.
 
 
 
Trump’s Contradictory Critics
 
It’s amazing how the media and Trump’s critics make contradictory arguments simultaneously.
 
In one breath, they’re screaming about Trump getting us into a war over Greenland. In the next breath, they’re screaming that Trump hasn’t given Ukraine long-range missiles to hit Moscow.
 
President Trump believes Europe should be taking care of Ukraine, which is in Europe. Trump is trying to protect us from the growing threat of communist China. And Greenland, which is in the Western Hemisphere, is critically important to our national defense.
 
 
 
BREAKING NEWS
 
Yesterday midafternoon, President Trump made a major announcement on Truth Social. He said:
 
“Based upon a very productive meeting that I have had with the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, we have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic Region.
 
"This solution, if consummated, will be a great one for the United States of America, and all NATO Nations. Based upon this understanding, I will not be imposing the Tariffs that were scheduled to go into effect on February 1st.”
 
So, for a month leading up to Davos, the president said, “America needs Greenland. I may do this. I may do that. I’m imposing new tariffs.” Politicians and pundits on both sides of the Atlantic were running around with their hair on fire. Financial markets crashed Tuesday. Yesterday, they rallied.
 
After the president’s Davos address, I listened to two so-called “international experts,” fretting about how could we ever improve relations with Europe. Well, calm down and wait a few hours.
 
 
 
Outrage Of The Week
 
The most outrageous thing that has happened in recent days is not Donald Trump’s comments about Greenland. That’s not a new idea. The United States has been interested in acquiring Greenland since 1867.
 
By the way, how does the Kingdom of Denmark own Greenland today? That’s colonialism. I thought everyone was against that now. But I digress.
 
The most outrageous thing that has happened was Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney kowtowing to Xi Jinping in communist China. Carney said if Trump is going to be a “bully,” Canada will seek better relations with Beijing.
 
Are you kidding me?! The communist Chinese are the biggest bullies on the planet!
 
And Carney wasn’t alone. Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron said he wanted more direct Chinese investment in France.
 
Carney, Macron and other European socialists are demanding that we protect them. All the globalists in the United States, all the liberals in Congress, all the media talking heads and foreign policy pundits insist we have an obligation to defend Europe.
 
But Europe is groveling before our enemies, buying Russian energy and begging for more communist Chinese investments! They are also restricting civil liberties and allowing mass migration from Muslim majority countries.
 
The insanity of this should be obvious to everyone. And if we had a truly independent media, every major newspaper would be blasting Europe right now, instead of smearing Donald Trump.
 
By the way, our NATO “allies” have already made it clear that if there’s a war with communist China, they have no obligation to help us.
 
 
 
The Invisible Coup
 
Investigative journalist and author Peter Schweizer just released a new book titled The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon. It’s chilling.
 
Schweizer argues that “We need to think not just about immigration as an issue, but about weaponized immigration and how our foreign adversaries are using it against us.” One example of “weaponized immigration” cited by Schweizer is how Mexico has interfered in America’s domestic politics to influence immigration policy.
 
Another example is the long-term planning in communist China to bring America down through “civilizational warfare,” including using “birth tourism” and birth-right citizenship against us.
 
According to Schweizer, atheist Chinese leaders believe they are at war with the Christian civilization of the United States and our emphasis on individual rights.
 
Like Comrade Zohran Mamdani, Beijing’s Communist Party bosses are all about the “warmth of collectivism,” which really means surrendering individual rights to a totalitarian regime.
 
 
 
Radicals Exposed
 
We’re learning more about some of the anti-Christian radicals who desecrated Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, Sunday.
 
One of the organizers of the disgusting attack currently runs a marijuana store. That’s really helping her community. NOT! But before that, she made more than $200,000 a year running an organization that was supposedly dedicated to supporting anti-poverty initiatives. Evidently, she was the anti-poverty initiative she cared most about!
 
Another of these radicals is William Kelly, a vicious Marxist who travels the country spewing his bile. Kelly has repeatedly demonstrated outside of Christ Church in Washington, D.C., where Secretary of War Pete Hegseth attends Sunday services.
 
One member of Christ Church said, “William Kelly is a regular outside our church, he screams incredibly vile and gross things at families, at children, at people. He’s called my wife a c—, a whore, and a Nazi breeder, all sorts of fun things.”
 
Again, what happened at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, was not a demonstration against federal immigration police. It was an attack on Bible-believing Christians peacefully worshipping Jesus in their church.
 
The demonstrators are in favor of abortion on demand, LGBTQ ideology, trans insanity, open borders, and Marxism. Each day, they check their calendar to see which cause is on the agenda. They intend to take over America.
 
 
 
Vance Family Grows
 
Congratulations to Vice President J.D. Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance! The couple announced Tuesday that they are expecting their fourth baby, a boy, who is due in late July.
 
The Vances were married in 2014 and have two sons and a daughter. In addition to welcoming their fourth child, the Second Couple is making history. The last time a vice president had a child while in office was 1870—156 years ago!
 
In response to their announcement, the official White House X account posted, “The most pro-family administration in history! CONGRATULATIONS!”

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