OPINION
Overinflated Controversies Shouldn't Decide Midterms
By Judd Dunning
Monday, 28 September 2026 05:34 PM EDT
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President Donald Trump just barred reporters from CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House.
A free press needs access to the president, even when it disagrees with him. Yet Mr. Trump’s frustration is understandable.
A disproportionate amount of time is spent discussing his personality, language and controversies compared with his administration’s actual record.
With the midterms approaching, that record deserves a serious look.
Trump has become one of the most consequential deconstructionist, anti-globalist and anti-bureaucratic presidents of the modern era.
He's challenged the administrative state, decades of free trade orthodoxy, our approach to illegal immigration, and basic assumptions governing America's relationships abroad.
Whether you like Trump personally is irrelevant.
Voters should know about his enormous policy changes.
Deregulation and the administrative state may be the most important and least discussed part of Trump's presidency.
He ordered agencies to eliminate at least 10 regulations for every significant new one.
In 2025, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs counted 646 deregulatory actions against only five significant regulatory actions.
This brought about $212 billion in present and future regulatory cost savings.
Trump’s executive order called for the "deconstruction of the overbearing and burdensome administrative state."
He has certainly followed through on that philosophy.
For years Washington argued about whether the border could be materially changed without another massive piece of legislation from Congress.
Trump changed asylum, parole, detention and release policies, signed the Laken Riley Act, and designated major cartels as terrorist organizations.
The administration now reports 15 consecutive months without releasing an inadmissible migrant encountered at the border into the United States.
It seems inarguable that presidential policy is material to border security.
FBI numbers tell the story on crime and public safety.
Violent crime fell 9.3% in 2025. Murder fell 18.1% and robbery fell 18.5%.
The decline in violent crime from 2024 was the largest annual drop since FBI national estimates began in 1936. The murder rate reached 4.1 per 100,000, tying 1955 and 1956 for the lowest rate in those estimates.
Trump's tax legislation created deductions for qualified tips and overtime, additional relief for seniors, and a deduction of up to $10,000 for qualifying interest on American-made automobile loans. There are income limits and qualifications, so political slogans are simpler than the tax code itself.
The underlying policy is clear.
Regarding American energy, Trump made domestic energy production central to his economic policy. He declared a National Energy Emergency and reversed numerous Biden-era energy restrictions.
America produced an average 13.6 million barrels of crude oil per day in 2025, the highest annual level ever recorded. America remained the world's largest crude oil producer while LNG exports also reached record levels.
On American manufacturing, Trump has probably done more than any modern Republican president to destroy the old Republican consensus around unrestricted free trade.
His tariffs on steel, aluminum, automobiles and other imports have costs. Serious economists disagree about them.
His argument is America spent decades calculating the benefit of cheaper imports without adequately calculating the cost of losing factories, strategic industries and domestic supply chains.
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer asked, "How can we have a conservative economy, conservative culture, or conservative politics if we don’t have a sovereign country that controls its own destiny?"
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cryptocurrencies are components of the next economy.
The administration established an AI action plan, created a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, and signed federal Stablecoin legislation.
Trump is aggressively encouraging investment in data centers, computing and the energy infrastructure required to support them.
The larger strategy is to keep capital, technology, infrastructure and rule-making power surrounding the next economy inside America.
Trump is determined to make America healthy again.
On MAHA, Trump revived most-favored-nation drug pricing and launched TrumpRx to attack the enormous difference between what Americans and patients in other developed countries pay for identical medicines.
The administration says 26 pharmaceutical manufacturers, representing 89% of the branded drug market, have now entered most-favored-nation agreements.
The ultimate savings should be judged as results come in rather than accepting anyone’s projections.
Putting America first abroad, Trump pressured NATO allies to spend substantially more on defense, pursued the return of detained Americans, confronted Iran militarily, and increasingly used America's enormous economic market as foreign policy leverage.
The approach is transactional by design.
What is America spending and receiving, and are our allies carrying their share?
Put these policies together and the larger project becomes clearer.
Trump is attempting to reduce the reach of the permanent administrative state and reorganize federal policy around what he defines as American national interests.
Now return full circle to the press kerfuffle.
Let them in to ask difficult questions and criticize him and his personality.
Let the administration hit back hard by refocusing attention from overinflated controversies to the vastly underreported successful Trump policy record.
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READ MORE: https://www.newsmax.com/judddunning/allies-cryptocurrencies-greer/2026/09/28/id/1270983/
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