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COLUMNS_ Donald Trump Reshaping the World at Record Pace

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Donald Trump Reshaping the World at Record Pace

Tom Tradup | Dec 14, 2024

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When the startling news broke on Thursday that China’s President Xi Jinping had accepted an invitation from President-elect Donald J. Trump to attend Trump’s Inauguration on January 20th, it barely moved the needle in America’s newsrooms…because it was only a small blip on the worldwide radar screens monitoring Trump’s pending return to the White House.

In just the past few days, our 45th—and soon to be 47th—President has received calls from foreign leaders…saw Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau grovel before him at Mar-A-Lago on tariff issues…rang the Opening Bell at the New York Stock Exchange and was featured on the cover of TIME Magazine as its “Person Of The Year” (infuriating lefty kooks including occasional cable personality Don Lemon and MSNBC’s #1 Trump-basher Nicolle Wallace. You might include them in your prayers and maybe gift them with bottles of smelling salts since January 20th is still several weeks away.)

Meantime, incoming Cabinet picks like Secretary of Defense-designate Pete Hegseth and Trump’s nominee to head the FBI Kash Patel appear to have weathered the legacy media-generated “controversy” over their nominations and may be on glide paths to fairly easy confirmations. Current FBI director Christopher Wray can read the tea leaves: after what he called “weeks of careful thought” he announced this week he’s resigning at the end of the Biden administration “to avoid dragging the bureau deeper into the fray” of politics. A/k/a being walked out the door with his personal items in a banker’s box by Donald Trump.

Yes, the old elections-have-consequences bromide is also playing out on Capitol Hill. On the Salem Media Group weekly news program “This Week On The Hill with Tony Perkins,” U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson applauded bipartisan House passage of the Fiscal 2025 National Defense Appropriations Act. Johnson noted this NDAA reflects the fact that there’s a new sheriff in town, adding “One of the things we were really focused on was to return the emphasis of our nation defense policy to just that: national defense.”

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