As expected, former President Donald Trump announced his third campaign for president last night. And as expected, the usual hate-Trump suspects announced that he shouldn’t run for office, and that they will see to it that doesn’t get near the White House again.
Leftist Twitter and establishment Republicans were united: Trump must be defeated.
The leftist Mainstream Media, except CNN and Fox News, ignored the announcement, which was boilerplate Trumpism. The Lincoln Project scamsters had a hate-Trump advertisement ready to go.
The Speech
Trump spoke to supporters at his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, and after touting his own record, delivered a damning indictment of President Joe Biden.
“We are a nation in decline,” he said, “a failing nation for millions of Americans. The past two years under Joe Biden have been a time of pain, hardship, anxiety, and despair”:
As we speak, inflation is the highest in over 50 years, gas prices have reached the highest levels in history….
Joe Biden has intentionally surrendered our energy Independence. There is no longer even a thought of dominance, and we are now begging for energy help from foreign nations, many of whom find us detestable.
Not surprisingly, he also attacked Biden for opening the southern border to millions of illegal aliens, more than one million of whom Biden has released to colonize American cities and towns.
“Our Southern border has been erased and our country is being invaded by millions and millions of unknown people many of whom are entering for a very bad and sinister reason,” he said:
We will be paying a big price for this invasion into our country for years to come. Hundreds of thousands of pounds of deadly drugs, including very lethal fentanyl, are flooding across the now open and totally porous Southern border.
The blood-soaked streets of our once-great cities are cesspools of violent crimes which are being watched all over the world.…
How sad the United States has been embarrassed, humiliated and weakened for all to see.
Biden, he said, is “leading us to the brink of nuclear war.”
But “it does not have to be this way,” he continued to applause.
Trump said he would “immediately demand” election reforms that require voter ID, paper ballots, and same-day voting.
Trump rightly listed those who will fight him: the “combined forces of the establishment the media, the special interests, the globalists, the Marxist radicals, the woke corporations, the weaponized power of the federal government, the colossal political machines, the tidal wave of dark money, and the most dangerous domestic censorship system ever created by man or woman.”
But “together we will make America powerful again,” he concluded:
We will make America wealthy again. We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. We will make America glorious again. And we will make America great again.
“No.”
Laughably, President Joe Biden tweeted that “Donald Trump failed America” over a video with a litany of leftist lies about his predecessor.
Jeb Bush, Jr., whose father Trump shellacked in the 2016 GOP primaries, called the announcement “low energy,” with the pointed barb #SleepyDonnie.
Democrats predicted “he will lose again” and said they’re ready to fight him again, while the establishment conservative National Review panned Trump even as it admitted his singular accomplishments.
“To paraphrase Voltaire after he attended an orgy, once was an experiment, twice would be perverse,” the editorial began. The “editors” delivered their verdict under a single-word headline: “No.”
But again, the website was forced to admit the truth:
Trump killed off the Clinton dynasty in 2016, nominated and got confirmed three constitutionalist justices, reformed taxes, pushed deregulation, got control of the border, significantly degraded ISIS in Syria and Iraq, and cinched normalization deals between Israel and the Gulf states, among other things. These are achievements that even his conservative doubters and critics — including NR — can acknowledge and applaud.
But then NR bashed Trump for his style, “erratic nature and lack of seriousness,” and averred that he “had a limited understanding of our constitutional system, and at the end of the day, little respect for it.” The editorial also blamed Trump for the GOP’s lackluster performance in last week’s election, and pushed the leftist narrative of what occurred during the mostly-peaceful protest at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Not surprisingly, the Lincoln Project — also known as the “National Man-Boy Lincoln Project” because its leaders protected a homosexual groomer — prepared a hate-Trump advertisement before the speech.
“We said this day would come,” the pedo-friendly scamsters tweeted:
Trump has announced his candidacy for 2024. We’ve announced our intention to continue leading the fight to stop him.
“Donald Trump is back,” the ad says, “angry, vengeful, ready to take back the White House and wreck America again.”
Senator Ted Cruz, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and Tesla tycoon Elon Musk are “weaklings and losers” who will “bend the knee and write the checks” to elect Trump.
What Trump’s chances are is anyone’s guess. But the unified reaction to his candidacy suggests that leftists and their establishment conservative allies worry that he might pull off another victory.
Maybe they should be.
H/T: New York Post
