I was struck by two stories today that seemed like excerpts from the mainstream media/Democrat narrative.
The first is a column written by Juan Williams in which he says that President Trump should be thanking president Obama for leaving him such a strong economy. This story comes under the Democrat talking point that says that "Trump gets no credit for anything good."
There is obviously some truth to what Williams has to say. A new president does not walk into the Oval Office and change the economy in five minutes. Still, it has now been almost seven months, and it is fair now to say that President Trump gets credit now for where the economy is, not 100%, but much credit. And President Trump did turn the economy in two major ways. First, he changed expectations which are now much better and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. The best proof of this is the stock market. It has gone way up starting on the day after election day last November. After all those predictions about how electing Trump would tank the economy, the market spoke and expressed overwhelming happiness that Trump won. It has continued to go up ever since. Trump's second, and often overlooked, big help to the economy has been the removal of all sorts of needless regulations. Since taking office, the President has prevented or gotten rid of regulations that were stopping domestic energy development, slowing agricultural development and much, much more. This too has helped move the economy.
The second story from the narrative is about the resignation of the CEO of drug company Merck from the President's Business Advisory Council. Merck's CEO supposedly resigned because he did not like Trump's response to what happened in Charlottesville. That's insane. Trump denounced hatred and bigotry that led to violence. He didn't call out the Nazis by name. That omission has led to all manner of criticism. Nevertheless, what the Merck CEO did is to act as if the President endorsed the hatred, something he clearly did not do. And why is that? It's part of the Democrat talking point that says that "Trump is a racist". That was a refrain often heard during the campaign even though it is not even remotely true. Somehow, it never stops though.
We need to live in the real world if we are to succeed. I wish everyone understood this.
The first is a column written by Juan Williams in which he says that President Trump should be thanking president Obama for leaving him such a strong economy. This story comes under the Democrat talking point that says that "Trump gets no credit for anything good."
There is obviously some truth to what Williams has to say. A new president does not walk into the Oval Office and change the economy in five minutes. Still, it has now been almost seven months, and it is fair now to say that President Trump gets credit now for where the economy is, not 100%, but much credit. And President Trump did turn the economy in two major ways. First, he changed expectations which are now much better and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. The best proof of this is the stock market. It has gone way up starting on the day after election day last November. After all those predictions about how electing Trump would tank the economy, the market spoke and expressed overwhelming happiness that Trump won. It has continued to go up ever since. Trump's second, and often overlooked, big help to the economy has been the removal of all sorts of needless regulations. Since taking office, the President has prevented or gotten rid of regulations that were stopping domestic energy development, slowing agricultural development and much, much more. This too has helped move the economy.
The second story from the narrative is about the resignation of the CEO of drug company Merck from the President's Business Advisory Council. Merck's CEO supposedly resigned because he did not like Trump's response to what happened in Charlottesville. That's insane. Trump denounced hatred and bigotry that led to violence. He didn't call out the Nazis by name. That omission has led to all manner of criticism. Nevertheless, what the Merck CEO did is to act as if the President endorsed the hatred, something he clearly did not do. And why is that? It's part of the Democrat talking point that says that "Trump is a racist". That was a refrain often heard during the campaign even though it is not even remotely true. Somehow, it never stops though.
We need to live in the real world if we are to succeed. I wish everyone understood this.
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