Brace Yourselves: The World’s Already Getting Better, and Trump Isn’t Even Sworn In Yet!

by Jeff Childers

Finally, there’s simply too much winning to report in a single post! The “Trump Effect” is real: the world is already improving in eager anticipating of Trump taking office. So here is a stream of quick headlines for you, one after another. Get ready. First, the Democrats are busy little spiders, spinning the web of a blame narrative, which is keeping them from causing much other trouble. This morning’s New York Times lead op-ed:

 
Some legacy. The gist seemed to be, Biden told everybody democracy was in peril, but he didn’t act like democracy was in peril by stepping aside sooner. I also enjoyed a tacit admission in the article that Kamala Harris was so awful that as I have always said, she was President Cabbage’s impeachment insurance: “Perversely, Ms. Harris’s apparent weakness as a potential presidential candidate was an asset to Mr. Biden. It helped insulate him from calls to step aside.”

Haha, I told you so. But, if they’re going to blame Biden, how about blaming all Biden’s enablers, the folks who covered for his obvious cognitive decline until it was too late? Oh well. File that under questions that will never even be asked.

Now let’s move beyond the Democrats’ narrative spinning to the really good part. The Trump Effect. He’s not even been sworn in yet, and already the world is getting better, like that scene at the end of the Wizard of Oz when everything turns back from black and white to full color.

First, as I reported yesterday, Trump’s already shattering records. WSFA-12 News:

 
Trump’s as bad at being a misogynist as being a dictator.

Our economy is already starting to heal. This morning, in the Detroit Free Press:

 
Look, don’t get wrapped up in how over-valued the market is; that is a separate discussion. Today’s point is about how the market responded to Trump’s election. Wall Street’s over-the-top enthusiasm is the tip of an iceberg of badly needed consumer confidence.

Next, yesterday I also reported how New York City announced the end of its pre-loaded debit card system for illegal immigrants. That was good enough. Then on Thursday, the NY Daily News ran this even more encouraging headline:

 
In other words, New York City will not become a ‘sanctuary city.’

Outside the US, prospects for world peace began blooming like spring wildflowers. As soon as Trump was elected, the Taliban immediately announced it wanted to ‘strengthen relations’ with the US, and get itself off the terrorist list. Agence France Presse, Wednesday:

 
Yesterday, President Putin of Russia, with whom the United States is currently battling in a Proxy War, said the West is not an enemy:

 
The article reported that, while the Kremlin dismissed the notion of a peace deal in 24 hours as being overly optimistic, it conceded that peace is better than continuing the conflict. That’s more progress than Joe Biden has made in three years.

Like a cuddly Koala, China’s President Xi also extended the olive branch of peace. Fortune Magazine headline, Wednesday:

 
Very suggestively, China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning announced, “We respect the choice of the American people.” By contrast, things under Biden are so bad the Chinese won’t even pick up Tony Blinken at the airport. They’re always busy.

Next, things are already heading in the right direction south of the border. We found out Mexico’s migrant “caravans” began breaking up the day after Trump’s election. Imagine that. Reuters headline, Thursday:

 
On Monday, President Trump said he would soak Mexico with a 25% tariff on all goods unless that country seals up its porous northern border. They didn’t even have to think about it. The Mexicans believe Trump will do it, and that he has the political capital to make it stick. Real America’s Voice News reported the caravans were breaking up with help from the Mexican government:

CLIP: Real America’s Voice reports on Mexican border response after Trump win (2:05).

How about the Middle East? Huge developments, and Trump doesn’t even hold the presidential pen yet. Qatar, which has provided safe haven for terrorist group Hamas for years, suddenly switched positions on Thursday, and told them to get the hell out. Headline from Jerusalem Post:

 
“Allegedly” due to US pressure. Allegedly. Or, Qatar’s sudden policy shift was due to Trump-like writing on the wall. You decide.

For its part, Hamas issued a statement calling for an immediate end to the war with Israel. Newsweek, headline Wednesday:

 
Contrast that with the other possibility; that Hamas could have issued a defiant statement promising to fight till doomsday or something. Everybody’s talking peace.

In Europe, the EU isn’t planning to wait around to see if Trump means what he says about tarrifs, either. They believe President Trump will do it. So they’re making the first offer. Politico (EU Edition), headline yesterday:

 
I mean, you don’t even need to be a negotiating genius like Trump to work with eager trading partners like this. They’re already queuing up.

In other words, neither Trump nor the rest of the world are wasting the next two months. I’m not sure anything like this has ever happened in history before. The closest I can think of is when the Iranians released the hostages right after Reagan was elected. What we saw this week is much like that pre-emptive victory, except on a global scale.

Trump is playing a long game. He has in view permanent structural changes to extend far beyond his next term. For example, yesterday’s EconoTimes headline:

 
Trump is proposing a constitutional amendment for Congressional term limits: 12 years each for Congress (3 terms) and the Senate (2 terms). With any other president, you’d sigh and say yeah, that sounds nice, but nobody can pull off a Constitutional Amendment, it’s too hard. But look at what Trump just did.

Finally, it’s so hard to pick a favorite, but I admit a thrill of schadenfreude ran up my leg when I read this story: Wednesday headline, Barrons:

Haha, great moments in understatement—uncertain!

According to the article, Moderna —which only makes mRNA drugs— has an “uncertain future” because President Trump was re-elected and plans to inject Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. directly into the government health agencies. Apparently, the thought of losing its friendly government agencies made Moderna’s prospects suddenly become poorer.

If I were a day trader, I would short MRNA.

But after much thought and careful consideration, I decided to award the top Trump Effect to this last story, reported in Voz News under the headline, “Is this the Trump effect? Target ditches ‘Happy Holidays’ and brings back ‘Merry Christmas’ in store decorations.” As recently as 2021, Liberty Counsel listed Target on its annual “Naughty Retailer List” for businesses that “mute and censor Christmas.”

 
Get it? Trump already rescued Christmas!

We are looking forward to a very Merry Christmas, indeed. Praise the Lord. Now, we must earn the mercy and grace He has bestowed on a fractured nation.

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