Op-ed:
The First 100 Days...Finally It's America First
By:
Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio
"To keep America safe, we must
provide the men and women of the United States military with the tools they
need to prevent war. If they must, they have to fight, and they only have to
win." -
President Donald J. Trump’s words said at his Address to Congress
This past
Saturday, April 29th, was President Donald J. Trump’s 100th day in office, and
while that is a media driven arbitrary milestone of sorts, the fact remains
that so far it has been one hell of a ride...a ride from sellout to greatness
as Trump works to undo the Washington establishment's status quo and Obama's dangerously misguided policies of the past.
And what a joy it is to actually now have a president who keeps his campaign
promises...or at least tries to...even with the roadblocks thrown in his way
by members of both sides of the political aisle, by activist judges, and of
course by the media itself who still cannot accept the fact that Hillary
Clinton is not president.
The first
100 days were hard for sure, no one can say they were not, and the next 100 days
will probably be just as hard what with the world ticking like a time bomb
ready to explode...ready to explode as a very unstable man-child in North Korea
acts like he owns the world as he does what he wants when he wants and everybody
else be damned, and with France this upcoming Sunday getting the chance to
become the vanguard of turning back the muslim invasion of Europe...if only the
French take that chance and elect Martine Le Pen president. Ready to explode as Israel is still being
threatened by those wishing to wipe her off the face of the map, and Iran is
still making a mockery not only of a nuclear agreement they never had any intention
of honoring all while they relish in still being the world’s leading sponsor of
terror. And surely ready to explode as Syria remains a conundrum of who is really the bad guy and who is the
even badder guy...as in whose side should America really be on.
And in the
midst of all this comes a setting of the ticking bomb countdown back a bit as China
finally is starting to realize that maybe we are right about the threat North
Korea poses not to just us but to them as well for they, too, are now placing
sanctions on coal delivery to the North and are moving their great armies to
their shared border...just in case the man-child does decide to bite the hand
that feeds him.
One hundred
days of pure hell on the international front that no new president should have
to face...all courtesy of the previous president doing nothing but siding
with each and every enemy of the country he was supposed to be the leader of. And
yet even with all this President Trump had a key shining moment as he moved
our country forward and shifted her to the right in one very important way...a way which not only will affect
us today, but will affect many generations to come. And this he did with
his appointing and having been confirmed now Supreme Court Justice Neil M.
Gorsuch...a Conservative’s conservative...a true follower of and believer in
Constitutional law with not an activist judge bone in his body...as it should
be.
And President
Trump has shown bright in other areas as well. Here are but seven additional
ways, I believe, President Trump has triumphed in his first 100 days in office on
both the all-important economic front and in his increasing our national security... which
was put at great risk by Obama’s constant caving to islamist regimes, tying the hands
of U.S. law enforcement agencies, and his weakening our military and our troops ability to
not just fight but to fight winnable wars.
· 1. President Trump has already started
to increase the number of immigration officers and law enforcement personnel,
especially along our southern border, which has led to a 36% drop in illegal
border crossings and in 21,000 illegals already here being arrested...a 32.6%
increase in number from these same months last year while Obama was still in
office. And know that just this past February alone Trump’s tough immigration stance saw 17,226
illegals being deported, the majority of them felons and gang members. Also,
Trump plans to hire 5,000 more Border Patrol agents and 10,000 more Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers over the next few years to help enforce
his executive orders on immigration and current laws already on the books... the
very laws Obama and his ilk turned a blind eye to.
· 2. President Trump has called for a
proposed $54 billion increase in defense spending, which will raise spending
for the Department of Defense (DOD) to $639 billion for fiscal year 2018...a
full much-needed 10% boost to the military...as well as demanding cuts to
non-defense spending at the State Department, the Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and many other
federal money-wasting programs...basically a rebuilding of our Obama decimated military
without adding to the federal deficit.
· 3. As our new president, Donald Trump
has issued more than 40 executive orders, actions, and memorandum to reverse the
America-hurting policies of Barack HUSSEIN Obama, especially in regards to
regulations that stunted our economic growth...as in irrational,
counterproductive regulations emanating from numerous power-hungry federal agencies...agencies
like the EPA for one.
For example, under the Congressional Review Act, President
Trump has signed 13 specific resolutions nullifying said unnecessary
regulations and blocking agencies from reissuing them. One important case in
point is how Obama’s regulations crippled our coal industry. Mandated by Obama
and finalized in 2016, these regulations actually worked towards putting domestic coal extraction companies out of
business, but thankfully that has all been undone. And Trump has also rolled
back Obama’s last minute Stream Protection Rule that would have placed a burden
on coal companies to test streams before, during, and after mining, and was
followed up by his undoing the 2015 Waters of the U.S. Rule, a rule that broadened the
definition of a body of water. And to date, since Trump took office, 300 miners have been re-hired out of
the 36,800 coal miners who lost their jobs thanks to Obama’s most vicious of
regulations to help shutdown our coal industry in his goal to keep us dependent
on Arab oil.
·
4. President Trump’s budget proposal eliminates
the farce known as the Global Climate Change Initiative (an umbrella program
that paid for dozens of assistance programs to help other countries working on things
like 'supposed' clean energy) and fulfills his promise to stop payments to the
United Nations...the U(selss) N(ations)...climate change programs by doing away
with U.S. funding related to the Green Climate Fund (the U.N. money wasting effort
to help countries adapt to non-existent climate change or develop low-emission
energy technologies) and its two precursor Climate Investment Funds...all
products of Obama’s perpetrating the myth that climate change is real...it is
the weather and nothing but the weather...weather cycles that began when the
Earth first formed and weather cycles that will continue happening until the Earth is no more.
· 5. Since Trump won the election on November
8th, U.S. stock markets have sharply risen. The S&P 500 index is up about
10% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average is 13% higher passing the 20,000 mark
for the first time in its history after Trump took office. And when the markets
are up more businesses are opened and more jobs get created, and according to
the latest numbers available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that is to
the tune of 533,000 new jobs added to the U.S. economy during the Trump
presidency months of January, February, and March...jobs which not only put
people back to work but also increased consumer confidence as well.
·
6. President Trump has withdrawal the
U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the trade deal between the U.S.
and 11 Pacific Rim countries...China was not included in this deal...finally bringing an end to the many multinational trade agreements that had defined global
economics for decades and took American companies
out of America. And thanks
to Trump’s withdrawal from TPP, American workers are now protected from
competition from low-wage countries, and should slow the number of jobs leaving
the U.S. as American companies had sought cheaper labor abroad, like in Viet
Nam for example.
· 
7. President Trump has called the lying,
biased, truth denying, islamic condoning media to task and rightly so. Still
whining over the fact that their darling, Hillary Clinton, was not anointed
president after all their hard work to try and make it so, the media has now engaged
in everything it could to help take down the Trump presidency, but like Hillary
they come up losers. The purveyors of the coloring book, bubbles, and therapy puppy
crowd...aka the snowflakes...the media has pushed forward the laughable blaming
of Russia for Hillary’s loss and for all the ills now befalling our country
instead of looking in the mirror and seeing that they are one of the chief
reasons we are where we are today for when one perpetrates lies as truth
eventually a champion emerges to help set things right again...and that champion
has now come in the guise of a president who will counter every lie the media
tells with something as simple as a ‘tweet’ and with policies that truly do put
America first.
But while
President Trump has truly had great success in his first 100 days in office,
the truth must be told that he also has had some failures, most of which were
not of his doing. And this includes his wholehearted try at repealing and
replacing ObamaCare in stages, and it failed because of those supposedly on our
side who do not understand the logistics of how ObamaCare was passed and that
repealing it could not be done in one fell swoop. And part of this failure must
also be placed on the many concessions made to placate the hard line, far right conservatives...concessions
that in turn rightfully caused concern amongst moderates who feared a voter
revolt come re-election time from the millions who were forecast to lose coverage.
Another
failure...more like a temporary setback actually...was having his immigration and travel
bans blocked by the uber liberal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals which is stacked
with Obama appointees...hopefully the Supreme Court will right that wrong. And
President Trump also failed to get Congress to approve the construction of
the border wall let alone get funding for it, and he unfortunately is also now facing the Democrats
stalling his tax reform plan.
But as far
as the first 100 days goes when all is said and done and the wins are balanced against
the losses, I think Vice President Mike
Pence said it best at last Saturday’s ‘100-Day Rally’ in Harrisburg, PA..."In just 100 days, President Trump has
turned America around – and he's just getting started." And to that I
say thank you Mr. President and I am looking forward to the next 100 days and the
almost eight years of days thereafter.
Copyright © 2017 Diane
Sori / The Patriot Factor
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One hundred
days of pure hell on the international front that no new president should have
to face...all courtesy of the previous president doing nothing but siding
with each and every enemy of the country he was supposed to be the leader of. And
yet even with all this President Trump had a key shining moment as he moved
our country forward and shifted her to the right in one very important way...a way which not only will affect
us today, but will affect many generations to come. And this he did with
his appointing and having been confirmed now Supreme Court Justice Neil M.
Gorsuch...a Conservative’s conservative...a true follower of and believer in
Constitutional law with not an activist judge bone in his body...as it should
be.
· 1. President Trump has already started
to increase the number of immigration officers and law enforcement personnel,
especially along our southern border, which has led to a 36% drop in illegal
border crossings and in 21,000 illegals already here being arrested...a 32.6%
increase in number from these same months last year while Obama was still in
office. And know that just this past February alone Trump’s tough immigration stance saw 17,226
illegals being deported, the majority of them felons and gang members. Also,
Trump plans to hire 5,000 more Border Patrol agents and 10,000 more Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers over the next few years to help enforce
his executive orders on immigration and current laws already on the books... the
very laws Obama and his ilk turned a blind eye to. 
· 3. As our new president, Donald Trump
has issued more than 40 executive orders, actions, and memorandum to reverse the
America-hurting policies of Barack HUSSEIN Obama, especially in regards to
regulations that stunted our economic growth...as in irrational,
counterproductive regulations emanating from numerous power-hungry federal agencies...agencies
like the EPA for one. 
7. President Trump has called the lying,
biased, truth denying, islamic condoning media to task and rightly so. Still
whining over the fact that their darling, Hillary Clinton, was not anointed
president after all their hard work to try and make it so, the media has now engaged
in everything it could to help take down the Trump presidency, but like Hillary
they come up losers. The purveyors of the coloring book, bubbles, and therapy puppy
crowd...aka the snowflakes...the media has pushed forward the laughable blaming
of Russia for Hillary’s loss and for all the ills now befalling our country
instead of looking in the mirror and seeing that they are one of the chief
reasons we are where we are today for when one perpetrates lies as truth
eventually a champion emerges to help set things right again...and that champion
has now come in the guise of a president who will counter every lie the media
tells with something as simple as a ‘tweet’ and with policies that truly do put
America first.
But while
President Trump has truly had great success in his first 100 days in office,
the truth must be told that he also has had some failures, most of which were
not of his doing. And this includes his wholehearted try at repealing and
replacing ObamaCare in stages, and it failed because of those supposedly on our
side who do not understand the logistics of how ObamaCare was passed and that
repealing it could not be done in one fell swoop. And part of this failure must
also be placed on the many concessions made to placate the hard line, far right conservatives...concessions
that in turn rightfully caused concern amongst moderates who feared a voter
revolt come re-election time from the millions who were forecast to lose coverage.
RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS...LIVE!