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Barron’s reports that the cost of the partial government shutdown has now exceeded the $5.7 billion President Trump requested for his wall. That is how stupid Democrats’ “resistance” has become.

Today marks 2 years since Donald J. Trump was sworn in as our President. To commemorate this anniversary, the White House has published a list of this Administration's most noteworthy accomplishments. Here is an excerpt from the ECONOMIC accomplishments section: "Together, we are building a safe, strong, and proud America." Donald J. Trump President of the United States IGNITING A HISTORIC ECONOMIC BOOM: President Trump’s pro-growth policies are unleashing economic growth and providing opportunities to workers across the country. Due to President Trump’s pro-growth policies, real gross domestic product (GDP) growth exceeded 3 percent over the last four quarters. Real...

President Donald J. Trump has already, within just a year, defied the expectations of even those of us who had adamantly supported him.He almost instantaneously soared to frontrunner status in a field of GOP presidential contenders unprecedented both for its size and the quality of its candidates. In virtually no time, one by one, the New York City billionaire mogul who had never held political office dispatched his competitors.  With only his army of “Deplorables” behind him, Trump defied The Big GAME (Government-Academic-Media-Entertainment complex), the Regime, to make history and become the President of the United States.The Bushes; the Clintons;...

January 20th 2017, will be remembered as the day THE PEOPLE became the RULERS of this nation AGAIN. See video. https://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/videos/10160465604700725/

After all their non stop hysteria over TRUMP IS A RACIST, a 43% approval rating is the worst CNN could manufacture. LMAO!!

The visceral and often irrational disdain for Donald Trump displayed by otherwise seemingly high-functioning adults is beyond easy explanation. Here we are a year after his inauguration and large elements of the media, academia, left-of-­centre politicians, their followers and even many centrists still recoil at the very mention of his name, treating him as a dumb, dangerous and illegitimate President. It is silly and deluded. It also plays to Trump’s strengths, affirming his claim to be a Washington outsider opposed by the broad political establishment and misrepresented by most of the media. It only under­lines his narrative about insiders resisting...

January 20 is the first anniversary of President Trump’s inauguration. I have known nine presidents, beginning with President Richard Nixon. Of those nine presidents, the only one who was as effective as President Trump in his first year was President Ronald Reagan. That judgment may surprise a lot of people because the opposition in the news media and among the left-wing “resistance” has been so strong and one-sided that they have consistently misrepresented and maligned President Trump and his administration. This effort has produced a distorted, minimized view of what has been accomplished by this remarkably energetic and controversial Commander...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In his first year in office, President Donald Trump has frequently bent Washington to his will, shattering long-standing norms, plunging politics to a new level of corrosiveness and wielding his executive power to start rolling back his predecessor’s policies on the environment, education and America’s role around the world.

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A year after President Donald Trump was sworn into office, he continues to receive historically low and highly partisan approval ratings, despite widely positive views of the economy. He gets at least some credit for the economy, but most Americans don't feel they've personally benefitted from his policies – only 22 percent think they've been directly helped. Americans overall are feeling upbeat about the economy and the President gets some credit for that. Sixty-seven percent say the economy is very or fair good – a figure that has been at the 60 percent level or higher since Mr. Trump became...

The Women’s March is mere weeks away. Women from all over the country will dress as reproductive organs, carry signs disparaging men, and pat themselves on the back for standing up against the patriarchy.Though the official event description is a bit different: On January 21, 2017, people of all backgrounds–women and men and gender nonconforming people, young and old, of diverse faiths, differently abled, immigrants and indigenous–came together, 5 million strong, on all seven continents of the world. We were answering a call to show up and be counted as those who believe in a world that is equitable, tolerant,...

With the passage of the GOP tax bill this week, the Trump administration has scored 81 major achievements in its first year, making good on campaign promises to provide significant tax cuts, boost U.S. energy production, and restore respect to the United States, according to the White House. And along the way, President Trump even outdid his own expectations and slashed at least 11 major legacy items of former President Barack Obama, including cracking down on the open border, slowing recognition of communist Cuba and effectively killing Obamacare by ending the mandate that everyone have health insurance or face a...

One year out — How does the Trump presidency compare? It depends on who you ask. It depends on your metrics. In terms of promises kept to the people who elected him? I rate Donald Trump the greatest president since FDR, including Ronald Reagan. By that standard, Donald Trump is a rock star! We’ve seen nothing like it. Most presidents campaign on one track and then do the opposite after the election. Trump has increased jobs, reduced illegal immigration, cut regulations, driven ISIS out of its cities, turned around the Supreme Court, finally fixed the worst flaws in the Veterans...

One year ago, the political earth stood still with the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States. A majority of American voters in 30 states awarded their electoral votes and the presidency to an outsider, a businessman and reality TV star with decades in the public eye, but no experience as an elected official. He won by running against the establishment in both political parties, the media, bad trade deals, and policies of countries such as Mexico and China that he believed were not in the best interest of the American people. Unlike previous GOP presidential...

On the first anniversary of her election defeat at the hands of President Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton on Wednesday said the country is on the right track when it comes to rejecting Republican ideologies. "I think the fever is finally breaking," Clinton said in an interview on "Late Night with Seth Meyers." "I think that Americans, as we saw last night, 'You know what? We really like our health care. We don't like hatred and bigotry, and we don't want to get shot wherever we go in our country,'" she added, referring to Election Day 2017.

In case you missed it, the mentally ill of society, also known as liberals, gathered outside in New York City to ‘scream at the sky’ Wednesday night to mark the one year anniversary of Trump being elected President. Fox News’ Jesse Watters was live reporting in New York and interviewed a few of the screaming lunatics. Watters asked one protester (who appeared to be intoxicated) if he wanted a pacifier after he screamed like a baby. The protesters replied, “Go f*ck yourself”. Watters said he only saw about 30 protesters; the rest of the people present were from the media.

Donald Trump had the red carpet rolled out for him on Thursday in Beijing, where he aspires to the role of global statesman weighing the fate of billions of people. Meanwhile Hillary Clinton is heading to downtown Milwaukee, promoting her book at an old vaudeville show house tucked between Mo’s Irish Pub, Planet Fitness, Potbelly, Subway and Uhle’s Finest Cigars and Tobacco. Yes, elections have consequences. A year to the day after he was declared US president-elect and responded with an unusually gracious victory speech, Trump was being feted by Chinese president Xi Jinping with a military parade and flag-waving...

The fears escalated for Harpreet Singh Kohli under the glow of a TV screen last year, when his daughter broke down at the sight of the words strung across the screen: “TRUMP WINS 2016 ELECTION.”

On the anniversary of Donald Trump’s historic election victory, there are two views of the president’s performance thus far. The prevailing media narrative is that Trump’s presidency is floundering. His approval ratings are languishing in the mid-30s and his legislative agenda has yet to get off the ground. Media outlets have been publishing buyer’s remorse pieces almost nonstop since the early weeks of Trump’s presidency. But among his supporters, Trump’s presidency is already viewed as a success. Most Trump voters credit him with at least trying to follow through on his campaign promises, particularly his pledges to boost the economy,...

A year after his upset presidential victory, critics of Donald Trump took to the streets of Eugene today. As KLCC’s Brian Bull reports, the protest went primal, fast. About 30 people with the group, Indivisible Eugene, gathered near the federal courthouse, to decry the GOP tax bill, Trump’s cabinet picks, and the President’s inaction on gun control following mass shootings in Las Vegas and Texas. With real and paper megaphones at the ready, anti-Trump activists let loose with what’s called “primal scream therapy”…a way to release pent-up frustration. "AAAAAAAaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!” This went on…. “AAAAAaaaahhhh!!!” …a couple more times… “AAAAAaaaahh!!” Activists then...