Gary Varvel: Trump 2.0 – shock and awe

President Trump has uncorked a barrage of executive orders in his first two weeks dwarfing all former presidents. The Democrats hardly have time to respond to one policy initiative before they are hit with ten others. It’s like watching Charlie Brown getting knocked off the pitcher’s mound.

AXIOS – Charted: Trump’s unprecedented executive order blitz

WOMEN’S SPORTS

The Democrats woke war against women is over. Trump signed an executive order banning biological men from playing in women’s sports. Even Charlamagne, the host of the nationally syndicated iHeartRadio hip-hop show The Breakfast Club agreed with Trump’s executive order. He said, “Not going to get any complaints on me about that. I can’t even believe that had to be signed because this should have never been a thing,” Charlamagne said. “I totally agree with that one.”

The New York Post writes, “NCAA officially bans trans athletes from women’s sports just a day after Trump signs executive order.” This is the impact of Trump’s common sense leadership. He had the courage to tell the woke Democrats that their insane trans agenda is over. He won, they lost.

The Bible says God made us male and female (Genesis 1:27). Transgender transition, which is sexual mutilation, is an offense to God. People are free to do whatever they want until they invade the rights of others. Biological men should never be allowed into women’s restrooms or locker rooms.


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DOGE FINDINGS

Here are only a few examples of USAID’s WASTE and ABUSE:

NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST

Trump spoke about America’s Godly Heritage at the National Prayer Breakfast. He also announced a new national park called the National Garden of American Heroes. It will be full of statues of the greatest Americans who ever lived.

“We’re going to be honoring our heroes, honoring the greatest people from our country. We’re not going to be tearing down. We’re going to be building up.”

Trump called for a return to God in his comments. See below.

“From the earliest days of our republic, faith in God has always been the ultimate source of the strength that beats in the hearts of our nation.

We have to bring religion back. We have to bring it back much stronger. It’s one of the biggest problems that we’ve had over the last fairly long period of time. We have to bring it back.

Thomas Jefferson himself once attended Sunday services held in the old House Chamber on the very ground where I stand today, so there could be nothing more beautiful than for us to gather in this majistic place — it is majestic — and reaffirm that America is and will always be “one nation under God.”

PERSONAL NOTE:

Never-Trumpers have maintained the presupposition that Trump is a racist, misogynist, immoral, ignorant, blah, blah, blah. They also hold a presupposition that a Christian, like me, cannot possible support Trump because they think he is such a vile sinner.

My answer is always the same — conservative policies. I didn’t vote for Trump to be my pastor. No, I voted for him to be our president because America needed him to do what he is doing right now. He’s stopping the insane woke policies of the left, reversing the damage done by Biden’s failed presidency, cutting the size of the federal government, closing the border, taking criminals off the streets, establishing an energy policy that enriches our citizens, protecting women’s sports and making America great again.

And he’s doing it faster than anyone imagined. He’s calling the nation to return to faith in God, he’s supporting Israel’s war against Iran’s proxies and proposing peaceful solutions in the Middle East. Trump is running his administration as a CEO running a business that needs downsizing.

But Gary, Elon Musk wasn’t elected. Most of the millions of people who work for the federal government weren’t elected. Elon works for and answers to President Trump. And Trump supports what Musk is doing and so should every taxpayer who hates our money being wasted on immoral projects.

President Trump is the Bob Knight of politics. I’m a long-time Indiana Hoosier men’s basketball fan. I have fond memories of the late Bob Knight’s teams. He won 3 NCAA championships and coached the 1984 gold-medal winning Olympic team.

Knight had a snarky sense of humor. He also had a contentious relationship with sport writers. Like Trump, coach Knight also had his haters. Knight said things that people were thinking but are too polite to say. So does Trump. Knight verbally lambasted referees when he thought they were wrong. Trump verbally lambasted his political opponents, judges, prosecutors and anyone who he thought were wrong. I admit that I didn’t like everything Knight said or did, but he was a winner. So is Trump. That reminds me a lot of coach Knight.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

During a press conference with Trump and Japan’s Prime Minister, the president was asked if he had a response to the Time magazine cover that shows Elon Musk sitting behind the President’s desk?

Trump: “Are they still publishing?”

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