Saturday Politics : Trump Whirlwind Blitzes the Prog-Dems

Saturday Politics is sometimes about the new guy in town. • • • TRUMP HAS BLITZED WASHINGTON. President Trump is moving so fast that even the mainstream media is having trouble attacking every word and order coming from the Oval Office. Trump is proving that his campaign whirlwind was not a one-of-a-kind publicity stunt -- that is who Trump is every day, and American is already better for it. “It’s a robust schedule,” one White House aide said, “He isn’t wasting any time. He said he was going to go to work for the American people, and that’s what he’s doing.” This week, Trump had jampacked days meeting with business leaders and auto industry executives and calling world leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India. He invited Senate leaders to the White House and had individual meetings, including one with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. He went to Philadelphia to address the Republican annual congressional retreat. He met with British Prime Minister Teresa May. And, while doing all that, he signed on so many Executive Orders (EO) aimed at sorting out and turning around the Obama failures that it's hard to keep tabs on them. A pretty heavy load for a "first week on the job." • • • CHICAGO, CAN I HELP? Remember the old pop song that promised, "If your child needs a daddy, I can help." President Trump made a variation on those words when he asked Chicago if it needs help with its horrible street crime and murder record.Trump declared he was ready to help Chicago by offering to "send in the Feds" if Chicago can't reduce its homicides. On Tuesday night, Trump tweeted: "If Chicago doesn't fix the horrible 'carnage' going on, 228 shootings in 2017 with 42 killings (up 24% from 2016), I will send in the Feds!" Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Obama's first chief of staff, answered that he would take help in the form of money and programs, but he warned against deploying the National Guard, saying it would hurt efforts to restore trust in the police -- we may pause here to ask, what trust. Trump had not detailed what kind of federal intervention he was suggesting or if it could involve troops, but the mayor cautioned that using the military could make matters worse, telling reporters : "We're going through a process of reinvigorating community policing, building trust between the community and law enforcement. Sending troops is antithetical to the spirit of community policing." He said he welcomed federal help battling "gangs, guns and drugs." • It is very clear that whatever Mayor Emanuel is doing in Chicago, it isn't working. In 2016, the death toll skyrocketed to 762 -- the most killings in the city in two decades and more than New York and Los Angeles combined. Emanuel said the Chicgo police department already partners with federal agencies such as the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration to combat crime, including efforts to halt the flow of illegal guns pouring into Chicago from elsewhere. He said he would like to see that cooperation "expanded dramatically" -- but, it looks like that effort isn't working either. On Tuesday night, the mayor told WTTW's "Chicago Tonight" that he welcomed government assistance in the form of more money to hire officers and more resources to track illegal guns. But he also said the federal government has not done nearly enough. He said, when it comes to after-school activities, summer jobs and other youth programs, the government "has walked away." • Of course, as with all Progressive Democrats, the issue for Emanuel is not street crime but police violence, as stated in an Obama Justice Department report, and that always leads to the favorite Progressive Democrat whipping boy -- gun control. Representative Luis Gutierrez, a Chicago Democrat, said Trump would "rather spend his time on Twitter" than look for ways to reduce gun violence : "The President wants publicity and to be seen beating up on Democratic elected officials and appearing hostile to a big city like Chicago in the eyes of his suburban and rural voters." Another Chicago Democrat, Representative Mike Quigley, called Trump's threat "reckless and misguided" and a "gross overreach of federal power," calling on the President to increase funding for federal programs that he said were cut by Republicans but would help local law enforcement [didn't Obama sign off on every budget while he was President??]. Quigley also called on Trump to support "commonsense, pragmatic gun laws" -- once again,Chicago politicians like to forget that Chicago has some of the tightest gun control laws in the US, but the crime and murders continue. Money cannot be the answer -- especially money tossed into the pockets of the Democrat machine that is Chicago politics. Trump is nobody's fool in that regard. • • • SANCTUARY CITIES. While Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was telling President Trump to stay out of his city -- just send money -- he was also defying Trump's EO call for sanctuary cities to be stripped of federal funds if they do not enforce federal immigration laws. In effect, Emanuel's illogical position is that he will take federal money to fight crime while harboring illegal immigrant criminals who are responsible for some of that crime -- sometimes Progressives are just plain crazy. • Mayor Emanuel says that his city intends on openly operating as a sanctuary city : “I want to be clear. We’re gonna stay a sanctuary city. We welcome people, whether you’re from Poland or Pakistan, whether you’re from Ireland or India or Israel and whether you’re from Mexico or Moldova, where my grandfather is from, you are welcome in Chicago as you pursue the American Dream.” Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, another Progressive Democrat, said : “[It’s an attack] on Boston’s people, Boston’s strength and Boston’s values. If people want to live here, they’ll live here. They can use my office. They can any office in this building.” Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, another Prog-Dem, meanwhile, said that his city could withstand legal challenges from the Trump administration over the matter : “This city will not be bullied by this administration. We believe we have the rule of law and the courts on our side.” • Mister Mayors, repeat slowly after me -- the rule of law does not include harboring illegal immigrant criminals. • • • TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS COMING ON UN FUNDING. While confronting Chicago and sanctuary cities, the Trump is also preparing EOs to reduce the US role in the United Nations and other international organizations, the New York Times reported Wednesday. According to the NYT : "the draft order establishes criteria that would trigger the US-defunding, including organizations that give full membership to the Palestinian Authority or Palestine Liberation Organization, or support programs that fund abortion or any activity circumventing sanctions against Iran or North Korea." The draft order also calls for terminating funding for any organization that is "controlled or substantially influenced by any state that sponsors terrorism" -- or that conducts persecutions or violates human rights, the NYT reported. In December, after the UN Security Council anti-Israel resolution passed because Obama directed the US ambassador to abstain, Trump was sharply critical of the UN, tweeting : "The United Nations has such great potential but right now it is just a club for people to get together, talk and have a good time. So sad!" The NYT noted that the United States provides about a quarter of all funding to UN peacekeeping operations in Europe, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia. • And, according to the NYT, a different Trump draft EO will call for a review of many treaties with multiple countries -- with the goal of determining which ones the United States should exit. • • • THE PROG-DEMS ARE STYMIED. Sean Hannity of Fox News aptly described President Trump’s first few days as a “shock and awe” experience for the Left, a military tactic resulting in disorientation and a growing sense of helplessness. The Hill calls it a “dizzying pace.” Richard Baehr is more direct : "The left is going to have nervous breakdown soon. The wall, cutoff of funds to sanctuary cities and the UN, the cutoff of Syrian refugees and temporary freeze for all refugees, the pipelines,a new court nominee next week and no doubt several more things today. He is flooding the zone." • Trump is the real thing and by being true to his promises, he now has 57% approval on Rasmussen. • Leadership is taking action to show that policies start at the top. Trump is a far more proactive leader than either Obama or GW Bush. This can help the economy by energizing Americans and by creating the impression that he may take forceful action if talk fails, something Obama clearly did not do. Trump's Friday plug-pulling on the visit of Mexico's president is a clear example of this. Trump is moving so fast that the Prog-Dems and their MSM have resorted to hysterical overkill, calling him Hitler, a fascist, a threat to democracy, and a misogynist -- insulting and criticizing everything he does in exaggerated terms. Average Americans, thank goodness, correctly perceive that nothing Trump does will please the Prog-Dems and MSM, so their hysteria is discounted or simply ignored. If every word out of Donald Trump’s mouth is greeted with horror and rage and despair and hysteria by his opponents -- and by paid professional demonstrators following him around like mindless puppets, the Prog-Dems will never be able to offer any alternative to the Trump whirlwind. • • • DEAR READERS, that brings me to my lingering mix of pity and disgust at Madonna's rage on Friday, leading to her saying she had often thought about "blowing up the White House." An idea like that may seem slightly foolish when uttered by a 50-something has-been pop star apparently turning to Progressive politics to keep her name in the media spotlight. But, her statement is, in truth, an admission of the inability of the Left to get any hook into Trump and the American majority he represents. And, it could be the beginning of a frightening period in which political opposition takes an increasingly violent turn. How do the Prog-Dems and MSM fight against Trump's proof that constitutional America has survived their most devilish efforts to kill it? The media is fragmenting. Chicago is proof that the Obama Prog-Dem agenda failed inner cities and black Americans. Political Correctness is dead. Business is being returned to its rightful place as the engine that drives jobs and American commercial excellence. Foreign affairs are once again in the hands of pros who understand that America is their prime client, before the rest of the world. Israel has been returned to its rightful place as a key American ally. The Constitution is alive and well and soon to be protected by a conservative Supreme Court majority. Patriotism is no longer a dirty word. And, foremost, America's Christian foundation is being re-established. The Progressive Democrat Left has been bested bigtime by a New York businessman who dared to take them on in the name of America. He won and they have nowhere to go. The danger is that they will become increasingly violent. The most shocking thing I read this week came from Germany and speaks to this penchant the Left has for using violence as a tool to grab or keep political power. Newspaper publisher Josef Joffe came up with a truly frightening idea to remove Donald Trump from office -- have someone in the White House murder him. After a caller to a TV show he was a guest on asked if there was “still a way out of the Trump catastrophe” to remove him from office, one female panelist began discussing how she thought Trump might be impeached before his first term was up. But, she added : “There has to be a qualified two-thirds majority of the Senate in order for a removal of office to take place. These are politically and legally pretty high hurdles, a lot would have to happen for it, we’re far away from that.” Joffe then calmly responded : “Murder in the White House, for example.” The woman panelist said : “Josef, remain serious.” The host of the show moved on quickly. What you should realize is that Joffe is not a wild-eyed anarchist. He is is the publisher-editor of Die Zeit, the most widely read weekly German newspaper. He is also a courtesy professor of political science at Stanford University. The same Progressive Leftists who would have been outraged at anyone even hinting at violence against Barack Obama blithely talk about assassinating Donald Trump. Think about that this weekend. • And just one last Saturday Politics note after watching the Trump-May news conference -- Trump has found his "Thatcher" and the world is on notice...look out, the Anglo Saxons are coming.