About That Media Proclamation Donald Trump Is a Lame Duck...

<![CDATA[On November 6th, a day after the disappointing results in New Jersey and Virginia's off-cycle elections, and the coronation of Comrade Zohran Mamdani to be the Marxist-in-chief of New York City, Politico came out with the headline - Donald Trump Enters His Lame Duck Era. In two weeks, Donald Trump will have wrapped up year one of his second four-year stint as president of the United States, and after the events of this past weekend alone, the only thing that's lame is the alliance of elected Democrats, their allies in Resistance Media, and Stage Four Never Trumpers who think every day that Donald Trump wakes up is a bad day. I'd like to think I had a fairly productive weekend. I took down all the Christmas lights and decorations (parts of two days), saw Avatar 3, the Stranger Things 5 finale, and reorganized the garage. By comparison, Donald Trump removed an international drug trafficker holding his country hostage through illegitimate rule, served a 6-year-old arrest warrant in person backed by the might of U.S. Special Forces, and locked him and his wife up in New York City awaiting trial. He also has economically squeezed the mullahcracy in Tehran so tight that protests have entered their ninth consecutive night. And as of last night, the protesters are approaching near parity with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps in weapons and overwhelming them in numbers. The people have armed themselves, are fighting for their country, and Trump is giving them rhetorical cover. In short, the President didn't reorganize the garage. He took great steps to reorganize the world to ensure this will once again be the American century. On March 26th, 2020, Donald Trump's Justice Department indicted Nicolas Maduro, the Venezuelan strongman, on multiple charges of narco‑terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, and possession of machine guns and destructive devices. Four-plus years later into the Joe Biden regency, Maduro rigged the presidential election in Venezuela and claimed he would never leave power. The Biden regency called the election fraudulent, and by January of 2025, when Biden was out to lunch and out the door, the regency behind him called Maduro's rule illegitimate and refused to recognize it. So did the rest of the international community, with the exception of China, Russia, and Cuba. But that's as far as Biden was willing to go. All mumble, no rumble.The difference between Trump's administration and Biden's? Biden claimed to be respected in the world once again, specifically because we wouldn't do anything to enforce our will on the world stage. Trump showed yet again he is a man of action. The final week of Never Trump, Inc.'s 2025 began with full-throated defense for Somali fraud all over the country, scorn at the journalism exposing the fraud, and defense for drug runners getting blown up by land and by sea. The first weekend of 2026 brought a virtual hydra of responses to the Maduro raid and capture. 'It was an act of war' (it wasn't), 'Trump didn't get prior Congressional approval' (he didn't have to), 'the arrest was illegal' (he was Mirandized), 'he was poorly treated while transferred to U.S. soil' (he was treated better than the Americans he took hostage late last week), 'the additional hit on the Hugo Chavez mausoleum was just gratuitous' (I wonder if his remains smelled like sulfure afterwards?), 'it's all just about oil (I'd rather have it than China and Russia), and my favorite - 'okay, well, why you were there, why didn't you arrest every terrorist drug runner working for Maduro?' Let's work our way through how the media covered the surprise raid and arrest of Maduro, because honestly, the story and related clips are just fun for the whole family. On Meet the Press with Kristen Welker, the MVP of the first year of the Trump administration by far, Secretary of State/National Security Advisor/National Archivist/USAID director Marco Rubio easily countered the charge the raid was a naked theft of another country's oil reserves. ]]>