One of the more impressive things about President Donald Trump is his endurance.
Democrats, media, even some of his former supporters, have come after Trump on virtually every one of the 3,677 days since he announced his presidential campaign. It was a ridiculous announcement, of course, much mocked by people in the know.
No way would the political rookie, a Fifth Avenue billionaire and New York real estate mogul, be able to convince American voters that he was fit and qualified to become commander in chief — once, let alone two times.
They hoaxed him, doxxed him, impeached him, indicted him, tried him, convicted him, sentenced him, shot at him. And yet here we are after 10 years, nearly four weeks into Year 11, and he's still going strong.
You may not like how strong Trump is and how he wields that strength. But you can't not see the strength. An overwhelming majority of Americans, way more than voted for him, now say they like that the man is doing in office precisely what he said he would do before returning to office.
No one does that in Washington. Until now.
We discovered this spring that after one long work day and just before another, Trump was watching C-SPAN at 2:30 a.m. to see how some of his appointees had done up on Capitol Hill. Remember in 2020, President Brandon was calling it a day by 10:30 in the morning. And there was Trump doing three major campaign rallies in as many states.
This week's audio commentary, which you can click below, is about standing up. Joe Biden could barely stand up, period.
Trump is standing up to a wide variety of new challenges and opponents. Recently, we saw him confront Iran directly over its ambitions to develop nuclear weapons of mass destruction aimed at vaporizing millions of infidels into sudden martyrdom.
Now, comes another win from President Trump, standing up to the arrogant mainstream media that weaponizes the news. He delivered to them a rare commodity in American politics, accountability.
That's what got me going in this week's audio commentary. For decades, I was a card-carrying member of this country's imperfect but fairly diligent mainstream media. And proudly so. I described here how radically that media has changed in the 21st century, for the worse.
To right the balance, Trump is now delivering Judgment Day. I couldn't be more pleased. Here's why:
This week's Sunday column catalogued in one place an impressive list of the stunning stupidities that Democrat leaders and some of their elected officeholders are offering Americans these days as convincing proof that they are still not up to the responsibility of presenting a realistic political alternative to voters.
There's a reason the GOP controls the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives.
This has been quite entertaining. Democrats may get back on their feet sometime. That's been the historical pattern. But right now, that old party looks like a 21st-century Gong Show.
The most recent audio commentary examined the increasing volume of profanity in American public life, specifically in politics, and what that might reveal — besides a weak vocabulary.
To make the point in a different manner, we had some seemingly NSFW fun with bad words on the audio tape, available here.
In case you missed them, we also wrote two more of the Malcolm Memories recently. One on the amazing tech I encountered during a day on a nuclear fast-attack submarine in the Pacific Ocean.
And the other Memory was on the innocent, but unexpected reaction of my son to his first July 4th fireworks celebration.
