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Tuesday night’s State of the Union address was an appropriate celebration of perhaps the single best first year of any administration in modern history.
Amazingly, only one year into President Trump’s second term, a lot of people forget what we endured under four years of Joe Biden, and some are already asking, “What have you done for me lately?”
After a record-breaking triumph at the Winter Olympic Games and bringing home the gold in men’s and women’s hockey, the State of the Union was a perfect time to remember all the victorious turnarounds the administration is achieving in a short amount of time:
The Southern Border was effectively closed within about a month of Trump taking office, because the brave men and women of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection were finally allowed to do their jobs. As Trump is fond of saying, “It didn’t require new legislation; all we needed was a new president.”
A secure border brings with it a natural return to law and order. Americans are no longer subjected to a never-ending stream of defiant foreigners demanding to be let in and taken care of, and removing the criminal alien population caused soaring crime rates to plummet in just 10 months.
Border czar Tom Homan reported recently that “authorities have located more than 145,000 unaccompanied alien children who were previously unaccounted for following their release to sponsors under the prior administration.” The Biden administration lost track of more than 300,000 children during its four-year reign, but Trump’s people found nearly half of them in one year, because they cared to.
During his victory lap, Trump invited every legislator in the chamber to stand with him if they agreed that “the first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.”
Most of the Democrats remained scowling in their seats, a visual reminder of how the Biden regime targeted and harassed Americans they considered political opponents.
Trump’s Department of Justice Civil Rights Division quickly ended the Biden war against local police departments, concerned parents, and pro-life Catholics, and started handling actual civil rights issues such as “ending DEI,” protecting women athletes, fighting for parents’ rights and battling antisemitism on campus.
When Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon sent memos describing the new direction, more than 200 of the division’s 400 attorneys quit in protest.
Shedding 200-plus insubordinate troublemakers at Justice is a huge victory in itself!
Trump remains serious about returning America’s judicial system to a strict adherence to the Constitution, rather than using the law to execute a particular political agenda.
A law professor comparison between Trump-appointed judges and other presidential appointees published in November 2024 found that “Trump judges outperform other judges, with the top rankings predominantly filled by Trump judges,” whereas, “none of the Biden appointees, even when we try to control for their lower amount of time on the bench, make it to the top tiers in our rankings.”
While Trump focuses on law and order at home, he has transformed our military to again project “peace through strength” to the rest of the world.
The disastrous pullout of Afghanistan under Biden’s military directly resulted in the murder of 13 American soldiers, emboldened Iran and its terrorist network, and led to the October 7Hamas terror attack on Israel.
Following that humiliation, Biden’s inexplicable admission that, if Russia were to invade Ukraine, “It’s one thing if it’s a minor incursion,” caused hundreds of thousands of deaths on both sides in a years-long war, and billions in American taxpayer dollars squandered without any accountability.
Yet, in his first year in office, Trump has resolved eight conflicts in contentious areas around the world: Armenia and Azerbaijan; the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda; Iran and Israel; India and Pakistan; Cambodia and Thailand; Egypt and Ethiopia; Kosovo and Serbia; and Hamas and Israel.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is weeding out the woke military brass and instilling a confidence that inspires young people to serve their country again. Within months, the military overcame its recruitment struggles across all branches under the Biden administration.
National pride is returning across many areas of American life because it’s genuinely refreshing to have a president who just loves to revel in American greatness.
Trump did not stand at the dais to lecture Americans and denigrate our founders. No, Trump stood triumphant at the microphone to proclaim that “less than five months from now, our country will celebrate an epic milestone in American history, the 250th anniversary of our glorious American independence.”
America is in a much stronger position in 2026 than at any point during the Biden administration, and he makes it fun.
Imagine trying to celebrate our 250th birthday with President Biden, Kamala Harris or Tim Walz at the helm, downgrading American greatness at every turn.
Let’s all just breathe a sigh of relief that we have so much to be proud of again.
