Weekly Opinion Editorial
TRADITIONAL
& CONVENTIONAL
by Steve
Fair
Last Tuesday, President Trump delivered
his second State of the Union speech. President
Trump focused on jobs and the economy, infrastructure, immigration, trade and
national security. Trump’s speech was more
traditional and conventional- the best he has delivered since he was elected
and here is why.
First, he refrained from personal insults
and attacks in the speech. The POTUS has
never missed an opportunity to hit at his critics. He doesn’t start the fight, but he never
backs down. But at the SOTU he took the
high road. No personal attacks- no heckling
his critics-that’s refreshing.
Second, Trump has restored confidence
among the U.S. business community. Predictability
is important to business. Trump is very
pro-business. He has removed many
restrictive regulations that President Obama implemented that hurt businesses. That’s
why Wall-Street is up +25% since Trump was elected. That impacts 401K and IRA plans for all
Americans. Manufacturing is up in the
U.S., African-American unemployment is at historic lows, and three million
people have been given a bonus by their employers all because of predictability. The business community recognizes they have a
POTUS that understands business unlike the previous administration and won’t
regulate them to death,
Third, Trump has taken on the immigration
issue. An issue that has been kicked
down the road for the last thirty years, immigration is likely to be finally dealt
with by Congress in the next year. But
even before illegals are addressed, Trump has done something about
immigration. Since he was elected, illegal
crossings are down -25% at the US/Mexico border- their lowest level since 1971. Deportations are up +30% in the same
period. During the campaign, Trump was adamant
that he would build a wall to secure the border and has made it a cornerstone
of his immigration policy. The White
House has proposed a solution to dealing with the so-called ‘Dreamers’: a 10-
to 12-year path to citizenship for up to 1.8 million recipients and similarly
situated immigrants, in exchange for $25 billion for the wall.
Fourth, Trump has done a good job in
foreign policy. President Obama foreign
policy was erratic and passive. Countries
like North Korea and Iran broke treaties with the U.S., knowing they would face
no repercussions. Rivals like China and
Russia beat us at the negotiating table.
Trump, and his foreign policy team, have put America’s interests first
and America is now more respected around the world.
Make no mistake, President Trump is not
perfect, but no president has ever been perfect. Trump is loud, bold, and arrogant. He likes controversy and actually seems to
thrive on it, but no president in American history has been more an outsider in
Washington than Trump. He likes the ‘rogue’
roll and seems to delight when the insiders tell him ‘that can’t be done that
way because we’ve never done it that way.’ While the SOTU speech was more traditional
and conventional than what you would expect from Trump, make no mistake, his is
neither of those
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