President Trump

“Many European leaders concede that he basically has a point”, The Times of London said in a rare concession to Donald Trump over his NATO comments that prompted pearl-clutching outrage by some.

European leaders reacted to Donald Trump’s comments on NATO over the weekend — in which he laid out his frustration at member states refusing to pay their way and yet still expecting full protection from America’s military might and hence the U.S. taxpayer — in two ways, a report in The Times reflected.

This is insane https://t.co/tKgaz0pSBZ

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 12, 2024

The woke zealotry of the Biden administration is turning vast numbers of Americans into reluctant Trumpers.

In 1931, the slogan of the German Communist Party became: ‘After Hitler, our turn.’ This kind of wishful thinking is making a comeback in contemporary America. Prominent Democrats and the ‘progressive’ apparat of the Biden administration see the nomination of Donald Trump – their version of Hitler – as the best way to mobilise their shaky coalition and to keep hold of power.

In the Goat Bar and Grill in downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, the local Republicans were having a blast.

It was only a Monday night, but with a first-in-the-nation primary vote the following day, spirits were high. America’s eyes had turned on the Granite State in search of hints of what this election season would bring.

On stage, Scott Brown, the 64-year-old former Republican senator, sang the hits of Led Zeppelin, Steppenwolf and Skid Row. As he warmed up the room for his next cover, he looked for a crowd-pleasing line.

The former president’s formidable inner circle of advisers is a far cry from the chaos of 2016 and provides a counterweight to their erratic boss

The front cabin of Trump Force One, Donald Trump’s gleaming Boeing 757, has space for eight or nine advisers on its sofa and white leather chairs, with 24-carat gold-plated belt buckles, grouped around a highly polished wooden table.

Just the right amount of room for the former president and his inner circle to plan the latest moves of an election campaign that is far removed from the chaos of his 2016 run and could carry him back to the White House.

The vengeful establishment has driven Republicans even further into his corner.

If you listen to the American national media, Donald Trump is beyond the pale, and no respectable person would even think about voting for him. But, based on last night’s Iowa caucus results, it seems that many Republican voters don’t care what the media think of them.

Is a sense of unfairness in the Biden administration’s use of criminal prosecutions against the leading Republican candidate powering the 45th president’s astonishing surge on the hustings?

President Trump’s victory in Iowa — where he won an absolute majority in a four-person race — will certainly put a spring in his step. It might not be, history suggests, a reliable predictor of who will emerge as the party nominee. The landslide by which he trounced two strong Republicans, though, is remarkable. It goes a long way in putting paid to the notion that, as Conrad Black puts it, the 45th president is a spent political force.

The Church of Trump is broad and you don’t have to be a true believer to join

Donald Trump has dominated Republican politics for so long that it can be hard to remember the time when he did not. It’s easy to forget that at the beginning of 2016 he started the Republican primary process by losing the Iowa caucuses to Ted Cruz, his more conservative rival.

“He stole it,” Trump tweeted afterwards, graceful as ever in defeat. “The State of Iowa should disqualify Ted Cruz from the most recent election on the basis that he cheated — a total fraud!” Trump went on to stun the world, of course, by winning the Republican nomination, then the White House. American politics would never be the same again.

Imagine being in President Trump’s shoes for a moment on J6 as you get word the Capitol is getting swarmed…

– You were considered a near lock to be a two-term president in February of 2020

– You delivered one of the best economies ever seen for 3 years before China unleashed a…

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) January 7, 2024

h/t DS

The Supreme Court agreed to take up whether former President Trump can be disqualified from appearing on Colorado’s ballot over his actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, setting up a historic case that could upend the presidential election.

The justices’ order sets the case up to be heard at a speedy pace, with oral arguments scheduled for Feb. 8 and a decision to follow that could spark Trump’s removal from the ballot in states across the country.

“If Trump wasn’t running,” said Joe Biden last week, “I’m not sure I’d be running.” That’s a curiously uninspiring remark for an American leader seeking to win an election to make. Yet ever since 2019, Biden’s pitch for the presidency has been essentially negative: if you don’t support me, you’ll get him.

The trouble for Joe is that, as we approach the start of another election year, it’s beginning to look as if he can’t stop Trump. Brace yourselves, then, for the Great Election Freak-Out of 2024.

Heeee’s baaaaaack!

Donald Trump is the clear favourite to return as the Republican candidate for US president, and opinion polls also give him the edge in a rematch with the visibly ageing Joe Biden.

If it seems like Trump never went away, that’s because his enormous ego refused to let go of the job that he claims to this day was stolen from him in a rigged election. He has never conceded defeat.

Nothing says don’t take us seriously like Colorado’s Supreme Court decision ostensibly taking Donald Trump off the November 2024 presidential ballot. The split 4-3 decision by the far-left wing of the far-left court did the bidding of the Democrats’ fringe lawfare crowd by proclaiming without evidence or precedence that the former president is a dyed-in-the-wool insurrectionist.

A new survey of Americans suggests that a felony conviction of President Trump could be a deal breaker for most Americans, despite the fact that most Republicans say they would vote for him even if convicted.

The survey, conducted by Ipsos for Reuters, found that just 25 percent of Americans say they would support Mr. Trump in the event of a felony conviction. Another 59 percent of Americans say they would not vote for Mr. Trump if he is convicted. About 16 percent say that they “don’t know.”

With the West in a desperate search for leadership, the prospect of Donald Trump returning to the White House next year might be just the fillip it needs.

US president Joe Biden’s three-year tenure in the White House has largely been characterised by his penchant for capitulation, from overseeing the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan to his constant dithering over the Ukraine conflict. His failure to provide Kyiv with the military kit it requires to make a decisive breakthrough in the conflict, informed, in part, by his fear of provoking the Kremlin, has been a key factor in creating the current stalemate.

There’s a huge difference between some chud with a username like @MagaBeefcake8008 insisting that Trump can win in the general election, and some neutral guy who’s earned a little bit of respect for actually performing adequately over time with his predictions saying so. Well, that’s happening. People who are not bizarre weirdos who previously thought Donald Trump was doomed in the general are now arguing that Donald Trump might well win. Is it true? That’s debatable, and I am not convinced. But what’s not debatable is that some intelligent and reasonable people who are not involved in Trump’s campaign and who have no dog in the fight have changed their minds about Trump’s ability to win in November. Wherever you stand on an issue, you have to consider all the evidence, even if it challenges what you think. Especially if it challenges what you think.