Aug 7, 2025 08:35 PM
(This post was last modified: Aug 8, 2025 04:49 AM by Yazata.)
President Trump's had a really remarkable first six months in office:
1. Trump is succeeding in killing federal regulations at 10-1 rate, which tops his first term’s 4-1 cut.
2. The Department of Interior has terminated Biden-era preferential treatment for unreliable, China-dependent wind energy. EV mandates and subsidies are going away, at the federal level at least. (California still has them.)
3. Seemingly nobody is talking about "climate change" any longer. It used to be everywhere in the media, now... crickets.
4. The Agency for International Development, which had somehow become a multi-billion dollar plausible-deniability slush-fund for activists and deep state spooks, is shut down. And most of the covert deep state attempts at media censorship and control have been or are being shut down.
5. The FBI and the CIA are being returned to their original purposes. No longer will parents who speak up at school board meetings or Catholics who prefer the Latin mass be classified as possible "domestic terrorists" unless they actually do something to warrant the label.
6. The Treasury and Social Security have been forced to clean up their acts and do more to eliminate massive amounts of fraud. Basic financial controls and accounting methods already familiar in private industry but unknown in the federal government are being installed. 1960's-era main-frame computer systems are finally getting long due upgrades.
7. Nuclear energy is back in the conversation.
8. Federal lands are being opened up to mineral and energy exploration, incuding millions of acres in Alaska. The US is on its way to once again being a net energy exporter. Regulatory hurdles are being removed. Europe has agreed to replace their natural gas imports from Russia with imports from the US.
9. The White House unveiled America’s AI Action Plan
10. The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has banned men from competing in women’s sports.
11. President Trump signed into law legislation establishing a regulatory framework for stablecoins and helping to ensure the U.S. remains the global leader in cryptocurrency.
12. President Trump secured a historic agreement for NATO members to raise defense spending to 5% of GDP – a foreign policy feat long thought impossible! Far from smirking at his warnings as the Germans did during his first term, and far from shrieking (falsely) that he was destroying the north Atlantic alliance, now the Europeans are all praise. (Amazing how the Ukraine war focused their minds.)
13. Inflation is down, around the Fed target.
14. The stock market is up.
15. The Trump Administration has rolled out new merit-based federal hiring plans.
16. President Trump has announced a draft architecture and implementation plan for a Golden Dome system of systems that will protect the U.S. homeland from a wide range of global missile threats. This could be a very big deal, given the notable success that the Israelis recently had in intercepting hundreds of Iranian missiles. Anti-ballistic-missile technology has advanced tremendously, to the point where a national missile defense system becomes possible.
17. SCOTUS ruled the Trump administration can enforce the transgender military ban, thereby bolstering President Trump and Secretary Hegseth’s efforts to restore a military that is focused on the ability to fight and win modern high-intensity combat like we are seeing in Ukraine, rather than woke gender ideology.
18. The formerly wide-open border has been closed, with illegal border crossings down to their lowest levels on record. (Something we were told would be impossible.) The Wall is once again being built, the Border Patrol and ICE have received huge funding boosts and the US military is now patrolling the border.
19. Large numbers of illegal aliens have been deported. Remittances to Mexico are way down. Tens of thousands with serious criminal histories are gone. Taxpayer funded public assistance rolls are being cleansed of illegals. And as their access to free stuff is choked off, and as their fear of ICE increases, self-deportations are increasing as migrants choose to go home.
20. President Trump secured a major agreement with Brown University in which Brown will pay $50 million over ten years to state workforce development organizations, will adopt the biological definitions of male and female, and will not engage in unlawful racial discrimination in admissions or university programming. Columbia University agreed to pay the federal government a $200 million settlement, improve campus safety (particularly for Jewish students), and eliminate DEI considerations in faculty hiring, admissions and academic decision-making.
21. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified a report revealing then-President Barack Obama directed the intelligence community to publish “implausible” intelligence suggesting Russia hacked the 2016 election, keeping President Trump’s promise to demolish the deep state.
22. Contrary to all the hysterical predictions of doom, Trump's rather mercantilist fair-trade tariff policies to eliminate trade imbalances are working so far. Mutually beneficial and less one-sided deals have already been signed with the European Union, United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Pakistan and even China.
23. As tariffs rise on imports, literally trillions of dollars in investments have been pledged to re-shore American manufacturing here in the US. These new factories will bring jobs back to rust-belt locations devastated by the off-shoring craze of the last 20 years. Hopefully soon the US won't have to be dependent on imports from rivals and adversaries of products and materials of critical importance to the US economy and national security, like computer chips.
24. President Trump ordered a precision US air strike on the hardest-to-kill Iranian nuclear weapons site, despite widespread shrieks that it would ignite another endless mideast war. None of which came to pass. No US losses or casualties were suffered.
25. President Trump has successfully negotiated cease-fires in the long-standing confrontation between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan in their recent war, and most notably between Israel and Iran in their war. Just in the last few weeks, President Trump negotiated the end of another war, this one between Thailand and Cambodia. And while it hasn't resulted in success, the US is one of the few countries actually working to end the Ukraine war. So far, Israel, Pakistan and Cambodia have all nominated President Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize (which he's unlikely to win, because those prizes only go to leftists.)
Bottom line: Many commentators are starting to say (grudgingly in many cases) that Trump's second term might turn out to be one of the most consequential and transformative presidencies in United States history.
1. Trump is succeeding in killing federal regulations at 10-1 rate, which tops his first term’s 4-1 cut.
2. The Department of Interior has terminated Biden-era preferential treatment for unreliable, China-dependent wind energy. EV mandates and subsidies are going away, at the federal level at least. (California still has them.)
3. Seemingly nobody is talking about "climate change" any longer. It used to be everywhere in the media, now... crickets.
4. The Agency for International Development, which had somehow become a multi-billion dollar plausible-deniability slush-fund for activists and deep state spooks, is shut down. And most of the covert deep state attempts at media censorship and control have been or are being shut down.
5. The FBI and the CIA are being returned to their original purposes. No longer will parents who speak up at school board meetings or Catholics who prefer the Latin mass be classified as possible "domestic terrorists" unless they actually do something to warrant the label.
6. The Treasury and Social Security have been forced to clean up their acts and do more to eliminate massive amounts of fraud. Basic financial controls and accounting methods already familiar in private industry but unknown in the federal government are being installed. 1960's-era main-frame computer systems are finally getting long due upgrades.
7. Nuclear energy is back in the conversation.
8. Federal lands are being opened up to mineral and energy exploration, incuding millions of acres in Alaska. The US is on its way to once again being a net energy exporter. Regulatory hurdles are being removed. Europe has agreed to replace their natural gas imports from Russia with imports from the US.
9. The White House unveiled America’s AI Action Plan
10. The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has banned men from competing in women’s sports.
11. President Trump signed into law legislation establishing a regulatory framework for stablecoins and helping to ensure the U.S. remains the global leader in cryptocurrency.
12. President Trump secured a historic agreement for NATO members to raise defense spending to 5% of GDP – a foreign policy feat long thought impossible! Far from smirking at his warnings as the Germans did during his first term, and far from shrieking (falsely) that he was destroying the north Atlantic alliance, now the Europeans are all praise. (Amazing how the Ukraine war focused their minds.)
13. Inflation is down, around the Fed target.
14. The stock market is up.
15. The Trump Administration has rolled out new merit-based federal hiring plans.
16. President Trump has announced a draft architecture and implementation plan for a Golden Dome system of systems that will protect the U.S. homeland from a wide range of global missile threats. This could be a very big deal, given the notable success that the Israelis recently had in intercepting hundreds of Iranian missiles. Anti-ballistic-missile technology has advanced tremendously, to the point where a national missile defense system becomes possible.
17. SCOTUS ruled the Trump administration can enforce the transgender military ban, thereby bolstering President Trump and Secretary Hegseth’s efforts to restore a military that is focused on the ability to fight and win modern high-intensity combat like we are seeing in Ukraine, rather than woke gender ideology.
18. The formerly wide-open border has been closed, with illegal border crossings down to their lowest levels on record. (Something we were told would be impossible.) The Wall is once again being built, the Border Patrol and ICE have received huge funding boosts and the US military is now patrolling the border.
19. Large numbers of illegal aliens have been deported. Remittances to Mexico are way down. Tens of thousands with serious criminal histories are gone. Taxpayer funded public assistance rolls are being cleansed of illegals. And as their access to free stuff is choked off, and as their fear of ICE increases, self-deportations are increasing as migrants choose to go home.
20. President Trump secured a major agreement with Brown University in which Brown will pay $50 million over ten years to state workforce development organizations, will adopt the biological definitions of male and female, and will not engage in unlawful racial discrimination in admissions or university programming. Columbia University agreed to pay the federal government a $200 million settlement, improve campus safety (particularly for Jewish students), and eliminate DEI considerations in faculty hiring, admissions and academic decision-making.
21. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified a report revealing then-President Barack Obama directed the intelligence community to publish “implausible” intelligence suggesting Russia hacked the 2016 election, keeping President Trump’s promise to demolish the deep state.
22. Contrary to all the hysterical predictions of doom, Trump's rather mercantilist fair-trade tariff policies to eliminate trade imbalances are working so far. Mutually beneficial and less one-sided deals have already been signed with the European Union, United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Pakistan and even China.
23. As tariffs rise on imports, literally trillions of dollars in investments have been pledged to re-shore American manufacturing here in the US. These new factories will bring jobs back to rust-belt locations devastated by the off-shoring craze of the last 20 years. Hopefully soon the US won't have to be dependent on imports from rivals and adversaries of products and materials of critical importance to the US economy and national security, like computer chips.
24. President Trump ordered a precision US air strike on the hardest-to-kill Iranian nuclear weapons site, despite widespread shrieks that it would ignite another endless mideast war. None of which came to pass. No US losses or casualties were suffered.
25. President Trump has successfully negotiated cease-fires in the long-standing confrontation between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan in their recent war, and most notably between Israel and Iran in their war. Just in the last few weeks, President Trump negotiated the end of another war, this one between Thailand and Cambodia. And while it hasn't resulted in success, the US is one of the few countries actually working to end the Ukraine war. So far, Israel, Pakistan and Cambodia have all nominated President Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize (which he's unlikely to win, because those prizes only go to leftists.)
Bottom line: Many commentators are starting to say (grudgingly in many cases) that Trump's second term might turn out to be one of the most consequential and transformative presidencies in United States history.
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