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   Recently, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, “2025 was setting the   
   table; 2026 is the banquet.” Yesterday, to celebrate the first anniversary   
   of his second term, President Trump popped up unannounced at the daily   
   White House briefing, like a presidential Jack-in-the-Box, and spoke for   
   an hour and a half. You couldn’t find a single story on corporate media   
   platforms about it this morning. The Times ran a long front-page story   
   about Crotch-Gate (more on that later), but nothing about Trump’s list of   
   365 first-year wins, not even to quibble or fact-check them. So we shifted   
   to Pennsylvania’s CBS-21, which ran the story below the headline, “‘365   
   wins in 365 days’: Trump touts major accomplishments so far during second   
   term.”   
      
   Yesterday, the White House published a major document and briefing titled   
   “365 WINS IN 365 DAYS: President Trump’s Return Marks New Era of Success,   
   Prosperity.” The White House’s press release correctly called it “the most   
   accomplished first year of any presidential term in modern history,” with   
   the President himself holding up the thick binder during yesterday’s   
   nearly two-hour surprise briefing.   
      
   It’s not even a complete list. Comparisons are being made to FDR’s   
   revolutionary first term, but FDR enjoyed a Democrat supermajority in   
   Congress, and whether the effects of FDR’s progressive reforms were   
   beneficial or just broke America and made everything awful remains up for   
   debate.   
      
   Trump’s second-term launch fundamentally shifted the playbook for American   
   governance, turning the presidency into something far more like a high-   
   speed, pre-planned military-style operation than the traditional slow-   
   motion policy rollout. He arrived at the Inauguration podium with a   
   detailed plan that was launched like a blitzkrieg tank invasion. It’s a   
   whole new era where incoming administrations must arrive with a fully   
   loaded 180-day playbook (e.g., what Project 2025 provided), complete with   
   pre-vetted personnel, ready-to-sign orders, and targeted agency overhauls.   
      
   Here are just ten from the list of 365. You might find others on the list   
   that you like better.   
      
   Achieved negative net migration for the first time in 50 years— Reversed   
   decades of border jumping, restoring U.S. control over immigration for the   
   first time in a generation.   
   Removed over 2.6 million illegal immigrants— Through record deportations   
   (622,000+) and voluntary self-departures (1.9M+), the largest mass removal   
   effort in U.S. history.   
   Delivered the largest one-year homicide drop on record— Launched federal   
   crackdowns, ended “non-enforcement,” and deployed resources to slash   
   violent crime nationwide.   
   Brokered peace deals ending multiple wars— Including Gaza/Israel   
   conflicts, Israel-Iran tensions, India-Pakistan war, Armenia-Azerbaijan,   
   and other halted global conflicts. (And he even got a Nobel Peace Prize,   
   sort of.)   
   Attracted over $10 trillion in reshored investments— Including $1   
   trillion+ in AI and chipmaking, with major deals forcing companies back to   
   the U.S.   
   Achieved record energy production and dominance— Boosted oil/gas output to   
   historic highs, dropping gas prices below $3/gallon in most states and   
   making America the world’s top energy exporter.   
   Signed the largest middle-class tax cut in history— Via the “One Big   
   Beautiful Bill” and Working Families Tax Cut, eliminating taxes on   
   tips/overtime/Social Security benefits and saving families thousands.   
   Dismantled the administrative state with massive bureaucracy cuts— Created   
   DOGE, fired thousands of civil servants, rolled back regulations, saving   
   $180 billion+ (with trillions more projected).   
   Halved fentanyl trafficking at the border— Designating cartels as   
   terrorist organizations, slashing seizures by half, cracking down on   
   precursors, and saving countless American lives.   
   Forced NATO allies to boost defense spending dramatically— Ending free-   
   riding with behind-the-scenes diplomacy and beating Europe like a   
   reluctant mule to meet and exceed its existing commitments.   
   As you can see, even that impressive list omitted blockbusters like the   
   construction of his tariff dashboard and its revenue, military culture   
   changes, ending DEI at universities, transgender policy bans, merit-based   
   hiring overhauls, cutting Bidenflation to the core, stock market surges,   
   unplugging USAID’s wacky regime-change machine, bottoming out the price of   
   eggs, Ford running plants in 24×7 shifts versus Volkswagon shuttering   
   manufacturing centers, a myriad of MAHA moments, and on and on and on.   
      
   In a different timeline, corporate media would have published their own   
   “one-year anniversary lists,” and the White House wouldn’t have to do it   
   for them. If an Obama-like president were infesting the Oval Office, media   
   would run infographics, charts and graphs, analyses, retrospectives, and   
   panels of op-editors giving glowing opinions about the imminent golden   
   age. But now? Meh.   
      
   Alice, we’re all the way down the rabbit hole.   
      
   Maybe corporate media will ignore the most historic first year in living   
   memory, but we won’t. Kudos, President Trump, you’ve over-delivered.   
      
   ?? With reports of presidential plane electrical problems escalating the   
   drama, media anxiously awaited President Trump’s WEF address like an in-   
   trouble teenager waiting for daddy to get home. NPR and Politico called   
   Trump’s WEF speech “highly anticipated.” Business Insider went further,   
   calling it “hugely anticipated.” It will be live-streamed from inside the   
   room. Yesterday, gallons of media ink were spilled speculating about   
   Trump’s geopolitical intentions, the faint rumblings of pushback, and how   
   often the President called European leaders flaccid (or words to that   
   effect).   
      
   CNN, yesterday:   
      
      
   But Trump surprised everyone. His speech was blunt, especially about NATO   
   and Greenland, but non-confrontational. They’ll probably say he “chickened   
   out” because he explicitly dismissed any military option for Greenland,   
   limiting his threats against Denmark to merely promising that “we’ll   
   remember.” It’s early, but maybe the most remarkable thing he said was to   
   expect prosecutions over the 2020 election. I’ll have a lot more about it   
   tomorrow.   
      
   ?? There was one thing glaringly missing from all the breathless   
   “anticipation” over this year’s WEF: any green sweatshirts. Kyiv   
   Independent, yesterday:   
      
      
   Yesterday, various warmup acts delivered their own speeches at the World   
   Economic Forum.   
      
   Canada’s Prime Minister Mark “Big Top” Carney, fresh from his trip to make   
   deals with authoritarian communists in China, perhaps unaware of the   
   irony, delivered a rousing speech in which he repeatedly quoted iconic   
      
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