Trump Puts Left on Notice: 'This Administration Does Not Apologize for American Power'

For decades now, the left in this country has preached that we should feel guilty about America’s success, we should obsess over its flaws, we should downplay our positive contributions to the world, and we should talk softly and carry no stick.

Be ashamed, their message has been. And all too many Americans and virtually everyone in academia and the mainstream media bought it hook, line, and sinker, and have been selling it as hard as their little hearts can manage.

And then along came Donald Trump and blew that garbage narrative to smithereens.

In his ten-year-plus political career, he’s seen the entire weight of the U.S. government thrown at him as they attempted to throw him behind bars, he’s seen a calculated, corrupt attempt by the nation’s press to bring him down at any cost, and he’s survived two assassination attempts.

If anything, all that’s happened since he came down the Golden Escalator in 2015 has only made his belief in American exceptionalism stronger, as he reiterated Friday at the Turning Point USA “Build the Red Wall” event in Phoenix Friday.

We do not “apologize for American power,” he thundered, presumably making former presidents Obama and Biden, as well as the entire workforce at MS NOW, break out into cold sweats. “We are not ashamed of American might.”

Watch:

.@POTUS: For years, we were ruled by fools who let every third-rate country push us around and bleed us dry — but those days are OVER. America was not founded by weak and timid men who cowered in the face of evil or sat by as danger loomed. Our ancestors knew exactly what to do… pic.twitter.com/GDcd8PpTHI
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 17, 2026

Our ancestors knew exactly what to do with America's enemies — BEAT THEM and beat them good.

We’ve been proving that for the last two months with Operation Epic Fury, he said, while also slamming the fecklessness of some of our past presidents:

Unlike past leaders, this administration does not apologize for American power. We are not ashamed of American might, and we do not hesitate to defend the American people, which is what we've been doing for the last two months, because Iran CAN NOT have a nuclear weapon. It's very simple.
For years, we were ruled by fools, who let every third grade country push us around and bleed us dry on trade and everything else they could get away with. They took advantage of us on trade, [laughs] not anymore, they’re not. But those days are over, and they're gone forever.

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My favorite part of these remarks came when he reminded us of who we are and where we come from. They probably don’t teach this in many history classes anymore, because they’re busy educating our kids on “stolen land” and how they don't really know what gender they are, but it was refreshing to hear:

America was not founded by weak and timid men who cowered in the face of evil, or sat by as danger loomed, and led our country go to hell. We are descended from the likes of George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Generals Ulysses S. Grant, Douglas MacArthur, General George Patton.
Our ancestors knew exactly what to do with America's enemies: beat them, and beat them good. That's what they had to do.

Trump had much more to say in his speech, which wrapped up a short time ago, but this is the section that caught my attention so far. For too many years, we’ve been told we should be ashamed, apologetic, humiliated (not merely humble), and that we should decry American Excellence. To hell with that.

Enjoy the weekend: