I watched Trump’s speech before the America First Policy Institute and it was as usual a masterful performance. He spoke for almost two hours flawlessly and relatively low key. It was not a Trump rally and he behaved accordingly and in fact spent very little time on the fraud in the last election.

There are a few things I want to comment on. First when Trump talked about how he told Mexico that they either put 28,000 soldiers on the border or everything thing they sell in the US will have a 25% tariff and amazingly it only took Mexico about ten minutes to acquiesce. Similarly with other Central American countries that refused to receive back their citizens, and particularly MS-13 gang members, he cut off their aid and amazingly they were happy to take back the gangbangers. And it reminded me of something I briefly ranted about a while back. Namely that even though Magoo will still be president, if the republicans take back congress, they can still wield a lot of power by following Trump’s lead. If Magoo won’t reinstate Keystone XL then refuse to fund the Department of the Interior except for the National Park Service. If Magoo doesn’t champion school choice and end CRT and pedofile transgender curriculum, then refuse to fund the Department of education. And as an aside, I think the Department of Education should be defunded anyway. States should determine the education of their children. Now I could go on from department to department but you get the idea. Will they have the balls to do it. I doubt it because there are too many eunuch RINO’s.

Next I believe that Trump understands that he can’t unilaterally impose his Schedule F and I believe he said he wanted Congress to give him the authority.

Next I have to take exception to his assertion that it takes 15 years to fire an incompetent or corrupt federal employees. Now I know that I haven’t been involved for a number of years, and one of you has had more recent experience and can notify me if things have changed that dramatically, but in my day I don’t recall it taking more than a year and usually less than that.

And lastly Trump did everything but announce his candidacy for 2024. There is no doubt in my mind that he will run again and I’m torn between whether he should announce before or after the midterms. Before could energize the left because they know that if the republicans take back Congress and then trump wins they are relegated to the ash heap of history. But it could also energize the right.