Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet

There was a report the other day that, according to JD Vance, Donald Trump has been “constantly asking us how many days we have left.” In other words, there’s a sense in this second Trump administration that time is of the essence. They want to accomplish something every day, while they still have the opportunity. Especially for someone like Trump, the logic makes sense. More than any other president, he’s aware that nothing is guaranteed. He’s well-aware of the risk of assassination, for obvious reasons. 

In fact, just yesterday Trump discussed how the U.S. would retaliate if, hypothetically, Iran were to follow through on its threats and assassinate him while he’s in office. (He said that Iran would be completely wiped off the map. Which is the right answer.) 

There are other reasons why Trump probably wants to move quickly as well. You may remember the first impeachment trial. Democrats engineered that whole narrative because Trump merely floated the possibility of cutting aid to Ukraine. They sensed weakness, and they exploited it. That’s why, this time around, Trump isn’t simply discussing the possibility of slashing foreign aid. Instead, he’s just going ahead and doing it. Trump is eliminating billions of dollars in aid and then closing the agency responsible for it, all in a matter of days. As we talked about yesterday, he’s actually locking the bureaucrats out of the building so they can’t keep distributing the money.

This is a blitzkrieg-style approach that no one on the Left has any idea how to handle. The Trump administration is securing near-instantaneous results, and he’s doing it so quickly that in some cases, corporate media outlets are having to reverse their own reporting in a matter of minutes.

Here for example was the scene on MSNBC the other day, as recorded by the media team at TownHall. These two clips are just 40 minutes apart. See if you can spot the difference here:

In the span of less than an hour, MSNBC went from dire warnings about how “Donald Trump’s trade war” was tanking the stock market, to announcing that actually, there was no trade war and that Mexico is now going to send thousands of troops to stop the flow of fentanyl into this country — a drug that kills tens of thousands of Americans every year. If there’s anyone left watching MSNBC who’s capable of any kind of independent thought — or if there’s anyone left watching MSNBC at all — this had to be a very jarring moment. 

But this is what Democrats in the media have to contend with in Trump’s second term. Things are happening far too quickly for the press to come up with any kind of coherent attack line. Stephen Colbert delivered a whole monologue that was clearly written with the expectation that the tariffs on Mexico would destroy the U.S. economy — only to acknowledge at the end of the monologue that actually, the tariffs have already been suspended. It’s like he got handed a piece of paper mid-monologue informing him that none of his jokes work anymore. Watch:

When you’re sitting through that Froot Loops joke, it’s difficult — if not impossible — to imagine a way that this monologue could get any worse. And then somehow it happens. Colbert has to announce that Trump’s tariffs aren’t going into effect because Mexico agreed to send 10,000 troops to control the border. For context, there are currently roughly 15,000 Mexican troops at the border. So this is a substantial increase. And then after telling his audience about this, Colbert claims that, in his opinion, his jokes still work, because in a month it’s possible that the tariffs will go back into effect.

This is what happens when you really, really don’t want to have to re-write a script that you’ve already drafted, even when the script doesn’t make sense anymore. You just tack on a note at the end saying, “Trust me, it still works.” To be fair, I’d probably try that sometime if I didn’t have any amount of self-respect whatsoever. It probably makes things a lot easier. I could just write a whole week’s worth of scripts in advance, and then if they’re outdated, I can just add a line at the end saying, “Trust me, everything I just said still makes sense. Trust me, bro.”

WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show

This is what Trump is now repeatedly doing to his political enemies. He is pre-empting every single one of their outrage cycles. He is making things happen too quickly — and with too many obvious benefits to this country — for anyone on the Left to keep up with it. And that includes our political enemies in Canada.

Doug Ford, for example, runs the Canadian province of Ontario. He’s a Canadian “conservative,” which basically means, in Canadian terms, that he’s a liberal with maybe one or two fewer mental disorders. On Monday morning, Ford promised to retaliate against Trump by “ripping up” a hundred-million dollar Starlink contract. Apparently, he wanted to prevent rural populations in his province from accessing the internet, as a way to spite Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Watch:

Just a few hours later, everything changed. Like Mexico, Canada quickly caved. They announced that they’re appointing a new “fentanyl czar” to oversee a billion-dollar plan to secure the border, and they’re also listing drug cartels as terrorist organizations — which they’ll pursue as part of a $200 million “intelligence directive.” And as a result, just like in Mexico, the tariffs were suspended.

This is a development that left Doug Ford in something of an awkward situation. After all, he had just ripped up the Starlink contract a few hours earlier. And now he had to put the pieces of that contract back together.

As Canada’s Global News reported:

Ford’s team said Ontario’s retaliatory measures would be rolled back. … Asked if that meant the Starlink contract would proceed by Global News, a Progressive Conservative spokesperson replied, ‘Yes.’

So they went from destroying anything remotely related to Elon Musk, to paying his company for internet access, in the span of about four hours. Of course, Ford didn’t go on television and tape the contract back together or anything like that. He had some unnamed spokesperson walk everything back.

Putting it mildly, this is not the outcome that the Left anticipated. It’s not even the outcome that many Republicans anticipated. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), for example, went on record warning that these tariffs were a terrible idea because Canada is our ally, and the tariffs would destroy the economy for no reason. Watch:

It was just a few years ago, in his first term in office, that Trump used tariffs on Mexico and Canada as leverage in order to renegotiate NAFTA for more favorable terms with the United States. We gained greater access to Canada’s dairy markets, higher wages for auto workers and higher requirements for vehicle parts to be made in North America (in order for those vehicles to be exempt from tariffs). As you may remember, those tariffs bothered a lot of people in Washington because Canada is supposedly our “friend and ally,” even though they have no military whatsoever and define their entire identity based on being “not American.”

In fact, Canada’s prime minister just went on CNN to explain that, in his view, Canada has no national identity whatsoever.

It exists merely as the anti-United States. Watch:

How does Justin Trudeau define our deep cultural and national identity?

"Not American"

He needs to step down as PM before he embarrasses us further. pic.twitter.com/I15gRlCoOz

— Stephen Taylor (@stephen_taylor) January 9, 2025

At some level, it’s not even sporting to mock these people. It’s one of the most pathetic things he could’ve said in that particular moment. But he said it because it’s true. That’s how millions of Canadians see themselves. But in America, we don’t see ourselves as “not Canadians.” We see ourselves as Americans, with our own interests to protect. And so that’s exactly what Trump just did. And he did it very quickly. In response, all Canada could do is take our liquor off their shelves for about ten minutes (even though they’d already paid for it), and pretend to rip up a Starlink contract. It was a pretty good trade for us, all things considered.

Things are moving so quickly in the Trump administration that his opponents just don’t have time to develop a counter narrative. This may be the first presidency that’s immune to the concept of a “news cycle.” Just the other day, for example, Panama announced another major step towards restoring U.S. control of the Panama Canal.

From Fox News:

Panama’s president vowed Sunday to end a key development deal with China after meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and after complaints from President Donald Trump that the Latin American country had ceded control over its critical shipping canal to Beijing. … [Panama will] not renew a 2017 memorandum of understanding to join China’s Belt and Road global development initiative and that Panama would instead look to work more closely with the United States.

Separately, Bloomberg has reported that Panama is abandoning contracts with Hong Kong to give them access to the waterway. So we were told repeatedly that Trump would never accomplish anything by saying we’re going to retake the Panama Canal. And less than a month later, we’re closer to retaking it than we’ve been in a very long time. Meanwhile, Colombia has completely caved on accepting illegal aliens back into their country, as we previously discussed. That feels like a year ago, at this point. But it was just a couple of weeks ago.

You can understand why, faced with all of these victories in very rapid succession, Democrats have no real response. They don’t have time to come up with one. So instead, they’re reduced to full-on panic. This was the scene outside the Treasury building yesterday:

Yes, those are members of Congress declaring that we’re at “war” and that people need to “fight” this administration. You might remember that, just a couple of years ago, language like that used to be a crime. You were committing an “insurrection” if you talked like that. But again, Democrats don’t even hear themselves talking at this point. They can’t regroup. They can’t focus or deliver any kind of sustained rebuttal. They have nothing.

What Trump has already demonstrated in his second term is that the United States is the most powerful nation on the planet. And when we start acting like it, other countries have no choice but to submit. This is such a foreign concept to Democrats and the corporate press that they’re obviously shocked by what’s happened so far. Right when they come up with a talking point, it’s completely negated. And then we’re onto the next topic — like taking over Gaza and firing everyone at USAID for example.

In other words, for the first time in memory, Republicans are setting the narrative in Washington. And they’re doing it by carrying out the agenda that voters elected them to do — an agenda that puts this country before any others. This shouldn’t be a novel concept. It’s certainly not some kind of secretive strategy cooked up by Project 2025 — or maybe it is; I guess we can admit that now. Regardless, less than a month into Trump’s term, it’s obviously effective. And with every major concession we receive from a foreign country, and every unhinged rally that Democrats stage in Washington, it’s clear that none of Trump’s enemies have any plan at the moment — or any ability — to stop what’s coming next.