I joined in mid-2016 when DJT was beginning to win more primaries then anyone else. I voted for Ted Cruz in the Maryland primary thinking that DJT was only running as a PR stunt. I had not followed DJT at anytime prior to that, neither his Apprentice TV show nor any interviews – I simply was not a political TV junky outside of Fox News and infrequently catching a talking head show on some other networks.

I felt the Democrats were too Leftwing and no good on any issues, but IMO the Republicans were BS-ing wimps and lacked spine to stand up for Americans’ constitutional rights on all matters.

But I DID listen to Rush Limbaugh on a daily basis; usually at night as a member of Rush 24/7, where that day’s (or any previous day’s) radio show could be replayed in full without the local news, weather, and advertising breaks. The 3 hour show was thus condensed to a bit less than 2 hours.

Rush didn’t warm to Donald Trump as a legitimate presidential candidate until some time after the Maryland primary, which was April 26, 2016. In our state, DJT won every county (and the independent city of Baltimore) for a total of 38 delegates. Cruz won no county at all.

THAT was a wake-up “smack to my face” so I began paying closer attention and immediately liked Trump’s New York-style brashness and his unafraid, politically incorrect language and retorts to the press. ❤️ I’ve never wavered since then.

About the same time as I warmed to D J Trump, Rush also turned and then he never looked back, using cautious praise in the beginning, but then becoming increasingly enthusiastic about the potential good from having Trump as president right through to the November 2016 victory.

I joined after the Republican debate when I saw how blatantly biased Fox was. That opened my eyes. The scales fell off when all the other candidates except Carson and yes Christie pulled off their masks and revealed they were part of the fix being in to install Jeb Bush. Christie’s and Trump’s falling out is personal. Old friends getting crosswise with each other. IMHO Rubio 2.0 comes from Marco catching on during Biden’s admin that the Dems have no interest in sharing power and would have treated him exactly as they treated Trump.

I joined the Trump train after he defeated Ted Cruz for the nomination, and he was the only person standing between me and the utter devastation of a Hillary Clinton presidency. But I knew he was a legitimate contender from the beginning because he was talking directly to the Republican base on the two issues that really mattered: trade and illegal immigration. I told my colleagues that they should not discount him as a celebrity candidate because the base of the party was tired of being lied to by its politicians that they were going to go to Washington, D.C., and change the way our government operated. I told them that the base of the party was tired of sending Charlie Brown’s to D.C. to kick the bipartisan football offered by the Lucy Democrats, only to have that football swept away at the last second, and were looking for a Charlie Brown who would run up, and instead of the football, kick the holy living sh*t out of Lucy (envisioned as Nancy Pelosi).

Ironically, the candidates for the Republican nomination were excellent from the standpoint of comparison with their predecessors. I gave favorable consideration to Ben Carson, Governor Scott Walker, Governor Bobby Jindahl, and could see myself voting for Senators Marco Rubio and Rand Paul. Having a much higher opinion of President George W. Bush at the time, I would have voted for Governor Jeb Bush, although he did not inspire a great deal of enthusiasm due to my frustration with his older, I thought well-meaning brother.

In effect, Trump was running Perot’s campaign as an independent in 1992 and 1996, but doing so as a Republican in the party’s 2016 primary, and he had the benefit of not only having agreed with Perot on the likely dire impact of NAFTA, but also twenty years of the base’s dire experience and frustration with that agreement. Nevertheless, I voted Cruz in the primary because I just wasn’t confident that then candidate Trump would govern conservatively, particularly from a social perspective, and Cruz, whatever his faults, had always articulated some opposition to the McConnell wing of the party that engendered such hatred for the Swamp. I also thought Cruz would pick better Supreme Court justices.

I still think, had the Democrats sought to co-opt Trump once he won, he would have comfortably reached a “deal” on immigration similar to Reagan’s and modified his complaints regarding NAFTA. But they didn’t, and instead attacked him, his family, his businesses, and his voters in the most outrageous manner, driving him into our foxhole, where he has been ever since.

Suffice it to say, I am not the Republican now that I was then. My eyes have been opened by the malevolence directed against the only man who has governed with my interests at heart, who has governed with the consent of the governed, for which he has been pilloried by every one and thing I despise. I thank God that he has sent a man to stand in the breach. A man with as many faults as have I, but a man who loves this country as much as do I, and who has taken the slings and arrows to prove it.

One last analogy. Back when I was making the Charlie Brown analogy, I also referred my colleagues to the movie My Bodyguard (1980), starring Adam Baldwin and Matt Dillon. Baldwin played a fairly menacing student at the local high school and Dillon played the school’s bully who on the first day of school threatened a new student with violence if he did not give him his lunch money on a regular basis. The student tried to stand up for himself unsuccessfully, and also unsuccessfully tried to get the school’s teachers and administrators to intervene to protect him. When he realized that Dillon was scared of Baldwin, he approached Baldwin and offered him half of his lunch money if Baldwin would protect him from Dillon. Baldwin accepted and beat up Dillon the next time he threatened the student. Ultimately, Dillon got his own bodyguard who beat up Baldwin, but then Baldwin came back and rescued the student from both Dillon and his bodyguard. Thus ended the movie.

Trump has always been our bodyguard. Dillon represented the Democrats. And the teachers and administrators represented our Republican politicians with no interest in protecting their constituents. VDH has always referred to Trump as Shane or Gary Cooper’s sheriff in High Noon–decent, but hard men who save the community from bad guys only to be shunned by the community they saved. Same type of vibe. We hired Donald Trump to be our bodyguard. To protect us from the a**holes in the Swamp who do nothing but steal from and take advantage of us, both Democrats and Republicans. But when you hire someone to protect you, you really can’t complain about how they do it. You can’t complain if he fights a little dirty or issues mean tweets. Because he is fighting for you and because your antagonists’ calls for adherence to the Marquis of Queensberry’s Rules just don’t matter a whole lot since they’ve ignored them in antagonizing you.

I have come to not only respect President Trump, but to love him. I think he is chosen by God to protect this nation and bring it back to greatness, and I consider anyone complaining about how he is doing so to be someone not worth listening to.

Thank you for your consideration.

Diamond and Silk got me on the Trump Train.

I was a Treeper starting from a bit before Teh Wan‘s (you know, the guy that needs a new personal chef that can swim) second term. I was not retired at the time and I was a big fish in a small pond. Very busy. I also was fully aware of the splitter strategy (thanks, Sundance) being used to give the nomination to JEB! (please clap).

Well, Mrs. H.R. was already all aboard the trump train and I was trying to carve out some time to consider the field. Anyone but JEB! (please clap) and I had crossed off some egregious Rinos, so I was still considering who was left and leaning towards Dr. Carson.

I was busy around the house and the Mrs. had some event on the tube with Trump included, maybe a debate? The YSM made the mistake of interviewing Diamond and Silk, no doubt expecting them to reject Republicans or if not, maybe back Carson.

Instead, Diamond and Silk were all aboard the Trump Train, very enthusiastic, and I knew right then that Trump had the policies and skills to communicate what he would do for the country if he could make inroads into the black female demographic that was always hardcore Dimocrat.

I was well aware of the Dem strategies and policies that kept blacks on the Democrat Plantation, but Trump was able to talk to and persuade black Americans that they were being screwed by the Dems and it was time to leave the Plantation for MAGA. Diamond and Silk sealed the deal.

That’s when I knew for sure that Candidate Trump was THE guy to lead our nation. He could persuade Americans that MAGA meant ALL Americans.

Later, thing calmed down at work and I had more time to get into the details of the various campaigns and candidates, but it was always from the perspective of, “Well, if that (whatever obstacle thrown at DJT), how do we get Trump across the finish line?”

That chance viewing of Diamond and Silk being interviewed was the proof of Candidate Trump’s MAGA policies and his ability to lead the nation.

When he came down the golden escalator.

I was on board the Trump Train the night he came down the Golden Escalator. I had not paid much attention to him before that. I knew of him, but did not know much about him except he was a builder of sky scrapers and a TV show I had never watched.

I knew long before he appeared in politics that our country was on a downhill slide, and needed a massive change post haste. I somehow knew, call it a gut feeling, that Donald J. Trump was the right man at exactly the right time to make that change happen.

I can honestly say that I’ve not been disappointed having voted for him to be the candidate and as the candidate each and and every time.

Thank you so much Mr. President. You have done, and remain doing, a fantastic job of getting our beloved country back on the right track.

So, when did you join the Trump train?

I was watching as he rode down the escalator and I told wife he would be next President.

Why says she?

Because says I he is a man who gets things done.

I had been with Cruz. I felt Trump might be Ross Perot 2.0, whom I supported back in 1992. However, Cruz went too Bible Thumper for my liking and by Fall of 2015 Trump had made his mark. He simply made sense. I became a full blooded Trumper. Never have I wavered .

Megyn Kelly TICKED ME OFF. Trump took no guff- you could see right off he was a fighter. Make America Great Again, a breath of fresh air. My 2 car mates on the way to vote in the primaries voted for Cruz, I voted for Trump, never looked back. LOVE THE GUY.

I’ll happily admit that it was primarily due to my time here in the Treehouse that I fully committed to endorsing DJT.

Those debates were wonderful! The “only Rosie O’Donnell” wow, he was fast on his feet and immediately established dominance. Then when he told Jeb pretty soon he’d be off the stage (since the lowest in the polls got moved farther out). LOL
he made mincemeat of the RINO candidate. Smarter than everyone else, fearless, funny, and kind hearted for real people, he is the alpha in any group.

I always liked the poster with the photo of a beautiful wolf and he words are “throw me to the wolves and I’ll come back leading the pack”. That is our POTUS!

Obama was such a disappointment, that when Trump announced, I was curious, and from then on out I listened to every word he said and watched every single rally from afar, and I was here on a branch of the treehouse. Trump was expressing what the Middle Class has been shouting, up to and includng the fact that toilets don’t flush. He made me laugh with his brashness. Melania was so classy that she just added to the delight, especially when she described how much she loved America. He said all the things so many of us have been saying, like we are being robbed blind and our standard of living had significantly decreased while a group of “special people” played roulette with our money; that the country had become “unsafe”, etc etc etc.

Before they even started attacking Trump, I was saying out loud to anyone who would listen, “I’m voting for Trump”. It seemed like such a bizarre choice at the time, but I would tell friends and family, LISTEN to what he is talking about and ignore the bravado. The guy is legit.

Once I was fully tuned in to the politics of it all, and thanks mostly to Sundance, I could not unsee the strings on all the marionettes. I was shocked and angry at how corrupt things had become, which made me even more a Trump fan.

Interesting how many people were going with Ted Cruz back then, myself included. Then old Ted decloaked as just another Official Government Party tool. It took his supporters a very long time to get over that betrayal. The games he played. Stuff we usually would have associated with Democrats.

The big reason for Trump’s success was his policies. Calling the Iraq war “stupid”. Focusing on illegals, particularly violent ones. And his somewhat Ross Perot-like description of the economy/trade. A lot of people forget that Trump and Bernie Sanders sounded more alike than any two candidates that year. They differed on the solutions – with Bernie being a Marxist the Dems had to get rid of him for Hillary who was promised the job.

But the OTHER big reason for Trump’s success was Conservative Inc. media. Back then, people hadn’t figured out what a joke National Review was. Also The Weekly Standard. And a few others. The way they decided to go after Trump was so Democrat Party that it was cringe worthy. So they beclowned themselves as they decloaked. It got so bad at National Review that they blocked all comments on their website and booted all the long-time “gold star” (unmoderated) commenters like myself. The Weekly Standard went broke which is fitting. Good riddance.

I hadn’t started reading CTH much. A friend tipped off the page to me in summer 2016 because Sundance back then was writing about what I was writing about wrt Hillary and her illegal email server…and how the FBI was clearly in the tank for Democrats trying to protect her.

Little did the FBI know that their strategy to help Hillary went over about as well as Conservative Inc’s attempts to stop Trump. Both, from different perspectives, wound up helping Trump win.

I watch him come down the escalator, I start following at that time. Some time shortly in that some time period I started reading here. I got on board after I realized he was the real deal. I been keeping up with him ever since.

I joined right after the first debate. President Trump ate 16 lunches and never looked back. I could tell he loved the country and I knew he had enough wealth that he couldn’t be bought. I knew I could never vote for Hillary Clinton under any circumstances.

The day after I put a Cruz sticker on my bumper, the toady dropped out of the race. I pulled it off and put it back on upside down, then threw a Trump sticker on and never looked back. God Bless America and DJT.

I joined the Trump Train on Election Day in 2015. When I got up that morning, I announced to the family, “We’re all going to go vote for Trump. If we sit home and Hillary is elected, we will have done our part to get her there. Something I cannot live with for the rest of my life.” They argued a bit, but lined up to go to the polls and vote. The ecstasy that night watching Trump beat Hillary will be a night I will always remember. Lots of champagne flowed that night at our house.

I did not trust him at all and did not think I could vote for the man as I ashamedly thought he was a Demwit in disguise and I had had a belly-full of RINOs at that point in my life. He showed me how wrong I was his first day in office. The only thing he didn’t do that let me down was “lock her up” as Hillary so deserved, but I understood why he did not and did not begrudge him that mistake.

My family and I all agree that Trump has been the best POTUS in our lifetimes.

The first moment I heard him speak, I supported him because he spoke my beliefs. Since then, I’ve come to be an unwavering Trump supporter. When I don’t understand why he’s doing something, I support him all the harder because he has access to information I don’t. I trust his judgement. I’ve watched him grow as a politician, while remaining the same idealistic man that made me his lifelong supporter. We don’t have to agree on everything. He doesn’t have to do things the way I’d prefer. He has to stand in his shining integrity and I’ll shut up and listen. There is NO ONE in this world I believe in more than Trump.

I joined the Trump train in June of 2015, for the same reasons Sundance recognized him as the real deal.
Finally, a candidate that spoke for me/America!

when he came down the escalator. From day ONE and never looked back

I had no idea what to think of him, but was receptive to an outsider cleaning things up. But was he truly an outsider?

Once he gave his “escalator speech”, I was 110% sold. I distinctly remember thinking, there is no way in hell someone from inside the machine would say those things. And on that day, a new MAGA patriot was born.

For me, it was still 2015. I didn’t follow politics much, but i liked what he had to say. But I didn’t expect him to win… then he spoke (again) of building the wall and the POPE responded something about building bridges, not walls. The POPE! I figured that was the end of his candicacy. Then he responded YOU GOT WALLS AROUND THE VATICAN. I knew he was fearless and had my vote that day.

IIRC there were 17 Republicans vying for the nomination and as an Independent, I knew I would vote for any of them not named Jeb Bush. I was tired of dynastic political families and thought Jeb vs. Hillary would only benefit Washington DC.

Usually, I like Governors since they have to work with both parties as well as with a budget. Yet, I initially gravitated to Ted Cruz thinking that he would be able to spank Hillary in the debates (back when I believed in honest elections). Admittedly, I was a latecomer to PDJT, committing only on Super Tuesday where he won my MA County with more votes than the rest of the Rs combined!

I voted Trump in 2016 but I was very suspicious that he was untrustworthy. When I saw him actually trying to fulfill campaign promises I came around.

The Charlotteville hoax made me hard core crawl across broken glass supporter. I had listened to his speechlive and knew the press was deliberately lying

I joined the Trump Train the moment I first heard he was running for POTUS.

When questioned (here) about whether or not he was a D or an R, I replied:

“It doesn’t matter if his name is followed by a ‘D’ or an ‘R’… you either believe that he will keep his promises, or you don’t, and I BELIEVE HIM” (or something VERY close to that effect)

I believed in him then, and I believe in now.

I have never regretted giving him my vote, or my support.

I remember thinking, “oh what fun it will be to have Trump making fools out of all those faux candidates”. I don’t think I actually thought of him winning until it was obvious he had too. Thank you GOD!

When President Trump came down the escalator. Then my son and I signed up to be volunteers at one of his rallies in the fall. A colleague that was more libertarian than me saw me posting on Facebook that I liked Trump and she asked me why. At the time I said he reminded me of my father who was a straight talking New Yorker. Trump’s inflections while speaking sounded just like my dad. And his no nonsense common sense policies told me he was not a politician. In the following years, my family of eight have all voted for him in every election. Praise God for President Trump!

I joined the “Trump Train” after hearing him speak at an outdoor rally in Fountain Hills, AZ (I believe it was March of 2016). I had seen Ted Cruz a few weeks earlier and was unimpressed with his “politics as usual” speech. He was ok, but mehhh; and the venue was filled with fellow white folk. Then I went to see Trump. It was a completely different experience. Every age. Every race. Every different culture of people you can imagine… and the venue was packed! When Trump spoke that day, it was a different sound than I had ever heard before. He was speaking from his heart. I was on board then and there, and I’ve never looked backed.

One month before Donald Trump announced his bid for the Presidency my husband and I moved into our “retirement” home. It was in a part of Minnesota we’d never lived before, so it was a new home, a new city, and a new set of neighbors, stores, pretty much everything.

A couple weeks after settling into our new-old home I told my husband unequivocally that I was DONE with all things political.

As a toddler I clearly remember seeing President Eisenhower on my parents black & white T.V. giving a speech. As an elementary student I remember my parents discussing Goldwater with their beatnick friends who wanted Johnson. And as a wild (straight A) hippie in high school, in my wide legged jeans and long leather fringed vest, I was fighting for Nixon before he was thrown off the bus with Watergate.

I grew up a Republican.

Then I started art school and got married a few months later, and before 1974 was over both my husband and I were democrats.

I remember clearly working in our yard in St. Paul one late summer evening and a young man walked up to us and asked us to vote for him for St. Paul Mayor. Young Norm Coleman, also a dem at the time, got our vote, and that was when I started volunteering big time for political candidates.

I kept volunteering for dems, including Mike Dukakis for prez, until I was invited to a very fancy, very expensive ‘Thank you party’ in Minneapolis given for volunteers. My democrat sensibilities were incensed seeing how much cash — lots and lots of it — was wasted on a “party” where almost everyone else there was dressed in tuxedo or gown.

Still, we were dems.

When our 10th wedding anniversary was 1 year away we wanted to go somewhere most other people did not go for any reason. When then President Reagan called the Soviet Union the Evil Empire we decided that’s where we’d go. We saved all year and then joined a senior citizen travel group on a three week trip to England and the U.S.S.R.

We came home conservatives, capitalists, and Republicans after seeing up close and personal what socialism is really like.

I started volunteering again, this time for Republicans, including Norm Coleman, who’d also switched political parties.

In the mid-1980s my husband told me I was wasting my time doing anything with politics; he said it didn’t matter if they were GOP or DFL, they were all disgusting, and it was at that point in time I swear he coined the term, “Uniparty,” since I’d never heard it anywhere before he said it.

I would argue with my husband that the two parties were worlds apart in beliefs, and particularly point out the huge difference in their platforms. He said it didn’t matter what their platforms said, he said it was all a game and asked me to look at how they VOTED. I did, and he was right, they were all dirty, they were all in the uniparty.

But it wasn’t until we moved here, to our last home, a home we hoped would be full of peace and rest from the crazy world that I told my husband he was right and I was totally done with politics.

Less than three weeks later we sat and watched T.V. mid-day, which was a really odd thing for us to do. But we wanted to see what Donald Trump had to say when announcing his bid for the Presidency.

All I remember about that time now is how I was filled with all kinds of emotions seeing a man say everything I’d heard every sane American say for years, and he said them outloud and proud — during a time when a lot of people were afraid to speak outload, so instead they whispered, not wanting to offend anyone.

Listening to Donald I laughed, I loved what he said, and I watched his body language and saw a man of truth speaking.

When his speech was over and the T.V. was turned off I turned to my husband and said, “I’m diving in again, but only for HIM.”

My husband shook his head, “Yes,” knowing he’d just seen a great man speak.

Then came an interesting thing for me. . .

I’ve been at the Treehouse for a long, long time. Long before Donald Trump announced his candidacy I’ve been here. I spent a long, long time here just reading and never making a peep. Like everyone else I loved the analysis Sundance always provided, and loved the fabulous analysis and curious takes from everyone who comments here. Loved it/love it. So I knew that if my take on President Trump did not match what Sundance thought, I’d have a tough time finding a new home online where people are sane.

Can’t tell you what an unbelievable joy it was seeing Sundance throw his full support to Donald Trump from the beginning.

Can’t tell you what an unbelievable joy it has been following Donald Trump and President Trump, and thanking the good Lord above for giving our country a man of character and a fighter, to do the job God calls leaders to do — to protect the people and to protect the borders of the country they serve.

MAGA baby!

So glad you reminded us of this today. I needed the look back and to read others’ comments.

I feel encouraged.

I was there right when he announced

I voted for Cruz in the primary. After President Trump won the nomination, I was all in, admittedly, though, at that point it would have been a cold day in hell before I would ever, ever, ever vote for Hillary Clinton. I remember President Trump saying, “What have you got to lose.” Pushed the button and went full Trump Train ever since. Instead of cringing at what a president had to say..0Bummer…I started hanging on just about every word President Trump said. Common sense had entered the Oval Office.

During debate season, a friend convinced me to look past Trump’s brash style and to listen to what he was saying. I had always voted R, including “hold my nose” votes for McCain and Romney: but well before Trump won the nomination, I was fully on board.

When he came down the golden escalator.

I found this place around the same time, after Rush mentioned Sundance on his show.

Was reading SD post that day and realized he-and Donald Trump were right- and Trump was going to wipe the floor with the other candidates. It was and is an historic moment in history.

I’m an Australian, so can’t vote in US elections. However, I’d lived around the world for several years and a mad political junkie.

For my entire life I thought Donald Trump was a loud rich buffoon, and his Presidential run a bit of fun.

Then about 3 weeks after his announcement, DJT gave his magnificent “Mexico’s not sending their best” speech, with all of our insufferable sycophantic stenographer lefty MSM fainting in horror at his words.

THAT’S when I started listening to President Trump, thought “hey, I actually really like this guy”, and I have been vocally loyally 100% on the Trump Train ever since!

(Then found Sundance & TCT early 2016, and have read here religiously daily ever since!).

I joined the Trump team after hearing Trump speak and dominate the debates with main street support and clear love of our Republic. I have never looked back with regret. He is the real deal-the trajic hero of our time.

the escalator. after voting for President Reagan (only one worthy) bush1 bush2 mcstain pierre delecto i was all through with politics when i finally realized the nominee choice was who’s ever turn it was, so disgusted with that devil bama i vowed to just focus on my family & do the best i could but then the escalator.

I didn’t note the Trump escalator ride in my notes at the time (or notice it), but had this summary of the following week June 26 2015:

* Congress grants Obama near dictatorial trade authority sharply limiting US sovereignty,
* Supreme Court reinvents English language to preserve Obamacare,
* Supreme Court forces gay marriage legality,
* Confederate flag on the run due to mass shooting last week,
* California legislature passes mandatory vaccination (forced medical treatment),
* California drought intensifies,
* Pope issues encyclical assuming man-made global warming on the advice of an atheist science advisor,
* “Jade Helm” excercises are about to start on American soil with American troops.
* Financial world looking for Greek default Monday.
* Embarrassing period in history to inhabit. Likely dangerous within my lifetime.

I don’t think I jumped on the Trump train on ‘escalator day’… I honestly can’t remember. I do know it was not too terribly long after when I realized Trump was our only real choice. My ‘conservative, life-long Democrat’ (there was a time) Dad realized the same. I have supported and voted for candidate Trump in his first primary and in every election since. I have never been more proud or more certain of my stance … even when it wasn’t cool 🙂

for solid, on 11-9-2015 after the Candidate Trump rally in Springfield, Illinois.
never watched The Apprentice, didn’t know much about the man, but i really liked what he was saying
and hoped he could at least influence the race in the right direction.
didn’t give him much of a chance to win until
THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of enthusiastic ILLINOIS rally goers showed up
for the not-a-politician newcomer to the race.
seeing those pictures from Springfield i knew he could win,
and that PT and MAGA were going to set politics as usual on it’s friggen’ rear!
started donating the next day.😁
no regrets.👍🏻

I jumped aboard 10 years ago today
the reason was I knew that He wasn’t a Politician
by then I grasped that most if not all were corrupt and all talk, spent crazy money with zero results.
The Clintons had woken me up well before Swine Hilda even ran
by hearing Rush L. go off on them in the past. ( i Have his first book in my attic somewhere)

I was MAGA when MAGA wasn’t cool.

Escalator got my attention but it was the Hillary debate, “You should be in jail.” which cinched that this man had what it took to stand up to the attacks. Right on all the issues even though stymied so many times. Still fighting for us and himself. Lion’s heart.

He had me at the escalator!🥰

“So, when did you join the Trump train?”
About a couple of weeks before he came down the escalator. He was saying everything I needed to hear in a candidate.

it was 1991 when I got on the Trump train. He was a guest on the Howard Stern show occasionally. Whenever he was on the things he said and how he said them were always very impressive. I had never heard of him before then, but I said to myself even back then if this guy ever runs for president, he’s got my vote. I can’t tell you exactly what he said that gave me this feeling. There was just something about him so when he came down that escalator and some people were still wondering about him, I assured all the people around me that he was the real deal.

Thank you Sundance for posting this .. of late there has been a lot of trolls bashing PT

It’s refreshing to see the positive post tonite ..

I supported Cruz in 2016, but I listened to Trump (and Rush). The decision between Clinton and Trump was an easy one, as I paid attention when Hillary flapped her leathery wings while gathering loads of cash in her time as FLOTUS. I was not sure of Trump initially, but the more I saw the more I liked. His actions (moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem, no new wars, secure border, low inflation, etc., etc.) won me over. And I found him hilarious — he is very funny. His humor is not scripted, it is honest and can be brutal.

However Trump’s true superpower is his ability to make his opponents go completely insane — the left is a shambles because they have lost their ability to have a reasoned discussion about any policy advocated by Trump. He takes the 80 side in an 80-20 issue and the left goes all in on the 20 side, even something that angers 80% of the electorate like open borders or men in women’s sports. The only policy side Biden ever had was to take the opposing side of whatever Trump said which is stunningly stupid. It should not surprise anyone, but that was the best the Democrats had to offer. And they had to flagrantly steal the election from Trump to install a barely functional pedophile into office.

It is difficult not to use the coarsest of language describing the left writ large. But Trump 2.0 is much more effective than Trump 1.0, so much so that the left may take three or four election cycles to find a candidate that is electable. It has only been 140 days, or 10% of his second term and his opponents are devastated. This gives me hope, and I truly believe the Best is Yet to Come.

When Phyllis Schlafly endorsed him.

It was when he spoke to the South Carolina Black Chamber of Commerce.
(even though I’m an old White guy lol)

Candidate DJT spoke man-to-man, laid out the history and facts of what the dems said versus what they had done. Then DJT said in his blunt style about giving him a chance: “what the h*ll do you have to lose?”

Plain talking, no notes, no “political” jargon, straight-to-the-point, just good policies.