Like many of you I am absorbing the shock and awe evident in the planning of President Trump’s first day after his swearing in. Sometimes there is just so much news from events, its best to just elevate, watch it all unfold and appreciate the full context of how these moments came to fruition.
So much to discuss, almost too much. Meanwhile, in the background, you can see the furious shadows of those who operate in the opaque places, behind the glass. The political calculations and lesser visible downstream effects of the Trump tsunami are happening in real time across a massive swath of offices, complexes and institutional silos. That activity is where my focus remains.
Here is President Trump delivering remarks to the assembled audience inside Capital One Arena in Washington DC. Fire for effect!
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Beyond a great President, Donald Trump is a man of legendary status. He truly makes his predecessors look small and insignificant. Anyone who resists and tries to thwart him does so from a place of jealousy that they could never, ever be 1/1024th the man he is. What a time in American history to be alive!
Trump neglected to mention the thousands of violent terrorists that have been dumped into Israel, not deported, but released into the interior of Israel where many many Israelis will die. Three hostages come back and many Israelis will now die from these released terrorists. This is something that the Israeli government was very much against and Trump forced it. Trump forced it because he wanted to get up there on a stage with some hostages and brag, because there’s no other reason to have done what he did!
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“thousands of violent terrorists dumped into Israel, not deported”? You sure about that? Not what I read. Please provide your source.
THIS is not Trump 45! THIS is something else entirely!
I’ve never had so much fun watching political events in my life!!!
Hey, old Chris Matthews, Trump is the one playing HARDBALL like you never could!
THIS is the stuff that should give you that thrill up your leg!
Me too. Been glued to the ‘net and TV all day.
Never ever did that before for any Inauguration. Not even close!
And have had calls from people around the country saying the same!
It’s a wonderful feeling once it starts sinking in that he’s really back.
And he is having fun doing it. They will quickly find out, the worst thing they ever did was steal 2020 from him. If they had left well enough alone, it would have been Pence et al kneecapping him and today their nightmare would be over.
Overcome with with emotions I could not write words for, I, just like everyone in these branches and all throughout a relieved and grateful nation…and no doubt throughout the wider world…watched every second of the day we waited so long for and wondered if we would ever see.
Tears for a lot of it and prayers of gratitude for this man Almighty God has without question chosen as His warrior for this phase of the spiritual war no one should be able to deny.
He is a different President Trump, LTB. A battle scarred President Trump who has been tested and found worthy. One who is now ready to take on his enemies…our enemies…who had to emerge from their fetid dark places to take him down so “his kind would never rise again.”
They failed and now will reap the whirlwind.
Before I turned in, I very much wanted to see our serene and gracious First Lady’s Inaugural gown, and so I waited with all of those military attendees, listening to the various speeches before she and their Commander in Chief made their appearance.
I thought it was right and proper that this ball was the first of the three they attended, and the atmosphere was electric. Excited voices could be heard, phones raised to record the historic moment, jovial banter from the higher ranks of those who spoke, smiles, smiles smiles…
But the most telling words came from a man from the ranks, highly decorated, at the podium who uttered these four words….
“Welcome back, Mr President.”
Welcome back, Mr President….
How long have these men and women in uniform whose unworthy superiors have done nothing but spit on them (and worse) from a great height for the past four years been waiting? There seemed a inordinately long time before the man who treasures them appeared, but somehow I think they didn’t mind waiting a little longer.
Those four words said it all…
And I rejoiced for them 🙏🏻 🇺🇸
Welcome back, Mr President indeed.
(By the way, our First Lady did not disappoint. Their nightmare is over…Glory to God in the Highest!! 🙏🏻 🇺🇸 )
I think someone is out of the silo (or broke down the walls) going wherever he wants. Apoplexy is going on all over DC.
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My daughter was there in the arena and said it was one of the best days of her life.
wow. Good for her.
What a great memory she’ll have!
Trump has had 4 years to prepare for his return.
Trump 2.0 was always going to be a leaner, meaner, more effective version of 1.0
And another thing…
“You take a shot at the king, you better not miss.”
A saying as old as time itself, best understood using a metaphor. Consider that all the time, effort, expense, etc invested to “take out the king” as energy. now consider the energy invested in taking down PDJT. Well, they missed, and now…as a result….all that energy transfers, by default, to the king. An effort to kill the king becomes righteous energy to take down the plotters.
Trump is VASTLY more powerful now that anyone truly appreciates. And this is witnessed in the parade of former enemies rushing for a chance to kiss the ring.
Oh, and one other thing.
As Sundance has chronicled so well, all the efforts to take down Trump have consisted of deeply dishonorable means carried out by corrupt and dishonorable people. The rats will gladly turn on one another in an effort to save their own skin. I suspect this process is already well underway.
The only people who would call the king vengeful for holding the corrupt accountable for their crimes are the very same hypocrites who cheered the corrupt on in their dishonorable, corrupt method to take out the king.
It’s time to do to them what they tried and failed to do to Trump.
Destroy them. It the only thing these depraved, rancid agents of evil understand. They must not be given a single inch or chance at political, social survival.
Oh yeah….one last thing….
A presidential pardon CANNOT be used to obstruct the pursuit of justice. A pardon intended to obstruct justice would be viewed as an unlawful exercise of this power and, as such, a violation of the presidential oath to uphold the law.
It’s really quite simple.
Biden is attempting to preemptively pardon a host of corrupt individuals, including his own family, who did the Obamination’s bidding…and profiting from same…. in a naked, blatant, and obvious effort to obstruct justice.
This is an ILLEGAL and improper use of the power of pardon and, as such, will be rendered null and void.
Watch and see.
Witkoff a great guy, a wonderful negotiator? An old good friend of Trump’s?
I guess we’re stuck with him. I guess Israel’s going to be really screwed because of this man, because he’s pro Arab!
And what’s this business about “more hostages coming home every day”. That’s a joke. More hostages coming home once a week and just a trickle of them. The rest of them were all abandoned by Trump, who swore that they should all come back or there would be hell to pay. The only entity that’s paid hell has been Israel. Trump stabbed Israel in the back, forced its government to accept what Trump ridiculed Biden for offering a year ago.
The man is full of self-congratulations, self-regard, a lack of self-criticism.
I can imagine even more hell to pay that Israel will be paying for instead of the Arabs
As far as Israelis are concerned, Trump was a shock and a completely unpleasant surprise, sided with the Arabs, sided with Hamas and Hezbollah and did the bidding of the Arab League.
There’s more of this to come, I guess, and we can thank Witkoff, Trump’s good good buddy Witkoff (w/ sarc)
spit spit 😡
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Trump neglected to mention the thousands of violent terrorists that have been dumped into Israel, not deported, but released into the interior of Israel where many many Israelis will die. Three hostages come back and many Israelis will now die from these released terrorists. This is something that the Israeli government was very much against and Trump forced it. Trump forced it because he wanted to get up there on a stage with some hostages and brag, because there’s no other reason to have done what he did!
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You crossed the line. Too disrespectful post for a Trump blog. If I were feeling this way I would simply avoid this blog.
I am Israeli and I also don’t like the deal but you need to know a few things:
1. No one knows Witkoff’s positions on the Israeli Arab conflict. I have seen a thorough review about him and it’s not clear. He attended the Bibi’s speech in Congress and said that “it was a strong speech”. He also has business ties in Qatar but it doesn’t mean that he is Pro Arab. Time will tell.
2. No one knows if this deal was forced on Bibi or he wanted it. In May I remember him saying that he wants a partial deal that will release some and enable Israel to resume the war. At that time Hamas refused, wanted to end the war first, to release only 12 hostages and to have Israel out of all of Gaza. Now it is 33 hostages. Bibi agreed to move out of North Gaza and Hamas agreed that the IDF stays in the Philladelphi corridor on Phase one.
You have to know that the time of the hostages was running out and a half of Israel supports this deal including the Chief of Staff and Head of Mossad. It is not Trump’s job to release the hostages and he can’t anyways. He can only enable Israel to be more extreme and shut off aide as pressure but that’s about it.
Today he also said that he “doesn’t know if the other phases of the deal will be done.”
If not then Israel goes back to Gaza which is what Israel wanted all along.
I also worried that Trump will give up on Israel’s war on terror in an effort to do a peace deal with Saudia. But it’s a worry, not reality.
Thank you, David, for your insight. I always appreciate your posts.
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Dragon appears to be a Hamas troll. I suspect that everybody knows that Hamas will break their agreement as they have done many times before. Hamas are completely duplicitous, deceitful, and untrustworthy. Then the Israelis can pursue the prosecution of the war to eliminate Hamas. This will all work out as planned. Gaza will become the resort and banking mecca that Beirut used to be. And under Israeli control.
They already broke the deal on day one when they refused to release the names of the three hostages that were supposed to to be released. Israel started bombarding them and eventually they did release the names.
Yesterday and before there were many videos of armed Hamas in the areas that we left. This is also a violation of the deal. Also the motion of Gazans back to North Gaza was supposed to be supervised by a US company to make sure no weapons are moving.
This was also violated. Tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of Gazans crossed with no supervision.
Israel is holding two documents from Biden and Trump where they agreed to resume the war if Phase 2 is not going anywhere. There is no Israeli government that can survive if we leave Hamas alive and rebuild their force in Gaza. Unless Trump aggressively stops Israel then this war will resume and we will be back to finish the job. Phase two is the end of war and Israel only agrees to it if Hamas is out. They will never agree.
Hamas says four female hostages will be released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners this Saturday.
There are now seven women on the list of 33 names set to be released in phase one:
🎗️ Liri Albag
🎗️ Karina Ariev
🎗️ Agam Berger
🎗️ Shiri Bibas
🎗️ Danielle Gilboa
🎗️ Naama Levy
🎗️ Arbel Yehud
No, just a superficial emotional thinker in the present.
Fortunately, Trump thinks with foresight.
Correction: The IDF is moving out of all of Gaza to a buffer zone along the border and stays in some locations of Philladelphi Corridor until day 50 that is in Phase two that is not likely to succeed.
As to your other comment. The terrorists are not released “into Israel”. Some are deported to Gaza, some abroad and those who are not convicted killers are going back to the Judea and Samaria (West Bank). There may be some exceptions if Israel agrees but this is the agreement. And yes it will cost blood and that is why I don’t like the deal. But this is what was possible because the Chief of staff of the IDF failed to create better conditions. He today announced that he is leaving the IDF on 6 March.
location
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brings prosperity, which in turn brings personal satisfaction and peace.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/01/20/president-trump-delivers-remarks-during-inauguration-day-parade-at-capital-one-arena/#comment-11494349
You like Potus 47’s method of running the corporate USA like a CEO , correct?
Or, do you prefer it remain a foundation, demanding taxable donations from hard working people with social security numbers?
if you think logically, not emotionally, you can comprehend Witkoff is an emissary with a real estate background , meaning he’s President Trump’s mouthpiece.
Trump’s lighbulb has been flashing since he moved the US EMBASSY to Jerusalem
”Gaza is a GREAT location”.
REAL ESTATE
POTUS 47’s goal is to redevelop Gaza with Qatar and Saudi financing, turn it into a Mediterranean seaside resort, likely with revenue from casinos.
The redevelopment properties will be included in the Abraham. accords.
That was the entire point of Jared Kushner’s efforts.
Every Arab and Jew was a descendant of Abraham.
Exist in the 21st century with peace and prosperity.
Business prosperity brings personal satisfaction and a peaceful coexistence.
Hamas can choose to become civil or again, to be biblically driven out of the Land, to wander in the desert Iike savages.
They will never control the renewed properties or rehabilitated government.
That’s Trump’s Excusive Agency and legacy, NOT Witkoff’s .
Thank you President Trump! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
God bless you!
So much winning!
I prayed well before 2014 that God would provide us with a leader as he has so many times in the past. I am sure that I was not alone in that prayer as we witnessed Obama destroying the country daily.
20 January 2025 was carefully planned and executed, every bit as exciting and momentous as General Patton’s breakout and run across France in WWII. Spectacular and the battle has just started! General Patton experienced severe setbacks after Sicily but the end result was having exactly the right warrior in exactly the right position at exactly the right time.
President Trump is exactly the right warrior in exactly the right moment in time. He minced no words in his inaugural address and he will not stop until the deep state is defeated.
Praise God and pass the ammunition!
Great post, monticello!
Thank you Slowcobra but i’m just observing like we all are at this point. In days ahead we may have to substantially show our support for President Trump.
The sad sabra girl behind POTUS 47 was rescued in the first release in June 2023.
Noa Argamani was the hostage seized via motorcycle from the nova dance festival
Her BF is still held, likely dead.
Her cover photo on the motorcycle is iconic.
Her mom passed from brain cancer 3 mo after her release.
Yet, she is relentless, similar to Ashlee Babbits’s mother, in DC for 4+ years.
Stop whining about your own worries!