February 07, 2025
Dear Patriot,
Who needs the Super Bowl for entertainment when we have the Trump Administration Show every day?
When we check our phone for the news, it's like Christmas morning! The good news rolls in unabated!
The Democrats are starting to get their legs under them again and pushing back. They are delaying confirmations and using leftist federal judges to stop Elon from uncovering more corruption and abuse in The Deep State. They are also using the courts to delay Executive Orders. None of these actions are a surprise. We warn you that these people will not give up on defending and protecting their evil ways. But, the Big Mo is with President Trump and his incredible team. They are cooking on all burners!
For years, we have witnessed the DriveBy/Fake News repeat exact wording when “reporting”. We are old enough to remember when Rush pointed this out back in 2000; unbelievably two and a half DECADES ago! For all of his insight, even Rush did not know why this happened. NOW WE KNOW! Almost the entire mainstream/ fake/Drive By News was being paid BY The Deep State to do their bidding.
Elon’s team discovered that USAID funded 6,200 journalists and 707 news outlets in 30 different countries. (!) They received the words the unelected globalist wrote for them. Then they all read and wrote them exactly. Honestly, it is hard to comprehend the magnitude of this discovery and the implications to history.
For a fun walk down memory lane, read this transcript from The Rush Limbaugh Show. (We think the audio is behind a paywall)
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1- It seems that President Trump and Secretary of Defense Hegseth have a a totally different approach to the military, which opens up a fantastic education option for young Americans. We need a strong, educated, trained military, but one that is never deployed to war. Our greatest deterrent for endless wars will be leaders who know our best resource is an overwhelming military force. Or, as they say, peace through strength.
What a Difference a POTUS Makes: Army Recruiting for December and January Both Shatter Records Going Back Years
QUOTE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed Tuesday that preliminary recruitment figures for the military show how interest in serving is quickly rising under President Donald Trump.
Hegseth revealed that the Army had its best recruitment totals in 12 years in December 2024, the first full month after Trump was re-elected.
That was followed by the best recruiting numbers in 15 years as of January 2025, the month in which Trump officially took office.
The conclusion Hegseth drew is that “America’s youth want to serve” under the bold and strong “America First” leadership offered by Trump.
The Army now expects to add 10 more basic training units in April across Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and Fort Sill, Oklahoma, according to a report from Military.com. That puts the Army on track to train 9,600 recruits per year.
All of this is quite the shift from the administration of now-former President Joe Biden.
2- We rarely use Politico as a source. But we do today as it may soon be out of business. We would be okay with that.
It was discovered by DOGE this week that Politico has been receiving millions of taxpayer cash. (They are trying to spin this as hundreds of subscriptions, but that does not make much sense.) Government-controlled Politico spent years mouthing the far-left, globalist talking points. After this discovery, Politico was unable to meet payroll. That may have been coincidental, but, it does not bode well for this 18 year old leftist propaganda media. GOOD NEWS!
One aspect of DOGE attention is to make ‘rapid safety upgrades’ in air traffic control system. Having confidence in safe air travel is vital.
Musk’s cost-cutters target US aviation system
QUOTE: Elon Musk has pledged to deploy his "DOGE" cost-cutting squad inside the innards of America's air traffic control system, promising Wednesday to "make rapid safety upgrades" to the complex web of software, hardware, facilities and people that keep planes from crashing into each other.
"With the support of President DonaldTrump, the DOGE team will aim to make rapid safety upgrades to the air traffic control system," Musk posted to his social media platform X. Musk's comment came shortly after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy posted that he'd spoken to DOGE and that the squad plans to "plug in" to the air traffic control system to help make unspecified upgrades to unknown systems.
The rapid-fire set of remarks, following on the heels of a speech Duffy gave before a conference of state DOT officials on Wednesday, comes roughly a week after the worst U.S. airline crash in two decades, with investigators still in the early stages of their probe. On Wednesday the last of the crash victims were identified, and salvage of the passenger airplane and the U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter that hit it are ongoing.
3- It was such fun to watch President Trump do more to protect women than any politician in our lives.
He is hopefully saving all of these girls pictured below, and all girls and woman everywhere, from attack, injury, embarrassment, and lost opportunities.
79% of the country wants this protection for women. It is common sense. This is an issue ALL Republicans and Democrats should be supporting.
To make this the law of the land, and not subject to a future leftist president, there is a bill that has passed the House; only 2 Democrats voted for it. It needs to pass the Senate. It should be a no-brainer but, who knows these days.
The signing ceremony was a delight. You can watch it, within the link below, if you missed it.
No hair was sniffed.
President Donald Trump Signs Executive Order to Protect Women’s Sports
QUOTE: On Wednesday afternoon, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at protecting women’s sports from the incursion of transgender athletes.
“With this executive order, the war on women’s sports is over,” Trump said, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “And it should have been done long ago.”
The president signed the order in the East Room of the White House, surrounded by dozens of excited girls and young women who were there to witness the signing. The order contains several measures, the first of which is to re-write federal Title IX education rules to withhold federal funds from schools that allow transgender athletes to play as females. Another aspect of the order would charge the Department of Homeland Security with the task of denying visas to foreign trans athletes who want to enter the U.S. to compete among women.
After signing the order, Trump cited the importance of female athletes and their role in the 2028 Olympics, which are scheduled for Los Angeles. He also mentioned the World Cup.
“My administration will not stand by and watch men beat and batter female athletes. We’re just not going to let it happen,” the President said.
4- It is becoming clear that President Trump spent time during his forced vacation from the Oval Office to think about the world and plan how to make it a safer, peaceful planet. All of the moves regarding the Panama Canal, Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and even the unexpected idea about redeveloping Gaza, we believe, are part of a larger vision to Make America Great/Safe Again.
U.S. Wins Major Concession in Panama Canal, With Trump Picking Up Another Foreign Policy Win
QUOTE: The U.S. has won a major concession in the Panama Canal, the State Department announced on Wednesday night.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio successfully negotiated a new deal with the nation of Panama that would grant the U.S. the right to pass through the waterway without being charged fees. The move, State said, will save the U.S. government millions of dollars a year.
Saving millions a year may seem like a drop in the bucket compared to other government expenses - like buying subscriptions to Politico PRO - but it is a major symbolic win as the Panama Canal was a central part of the Trump Administration's foreign policy focus as he was coming into office.
The Trump team has argued that giving up the important canal was a mistake and that the U.S. had lost strategic footing in doing so. But Trump has remained adamant that the U.S. will regain strategic footing there, even going so far as to say he wanted to take it back. As with most of Trump's foreign policy, that appeared to have been the starting point of the negotiation, with Rubio securing free transit.
That victory would signal to other powers - especially China, which had gained some political footing in the region - that the U.S. is set to aggressively protect its interests in the western hemisphere. It's almost as though the Trump administration is walking around with Big Stick Energy.
5- Leftist LOVE taking turns giving each other awards and honors. The Oscar of the Fake News is the Pulitzer Prize. It is passed around by “journalists” to other “journalist” who best amplify the The Deep State agenda. Keep an eye on this case, it is probably going to get VERY interesting!
Americans Poised To Get Inside Look Into How Russia Coverage Won Pulitzer Prizes
QUOTE: President Donald Trump racked up his latest legal victory in Florida on Monday, after a state judge ruled the Pulitzer Prize board's internal communications are fair game for discovery in a lawsuit Trump filed over the awards the board gave the New York Times and Washington Post in 2018 for their coverage of Russiagate.
Judge Robert L. Pegg, a circuit court judge in Okeechobee County, declined the board's request to shield its internal communications from the lawsuit's discovery phase. Trump sued the board in 2022 over its award to the Times and Post four years earlier for a series of stories that the board said "dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections" to Trump.
In his lawsuit, Trump said the board "rewarded" the newspapers "for lying to the American public" about the "now-debunked theory" that he conspired with Russia to influence the election. A series of federal investigations found no evidence that Trump colluded with the Kremlin.
Pegg rejected a motion by the board to avoid handing over internal deliberations about the award, saying the board failed to show that the discovery process will create "annoyance, embarrassment, oppression, or undue burden or expense," according to the ruling.
The judge's decision is the latest media-related legal victory for Trump. ABC News in December settled with the president, who sued the network over anchor George Stephanopoulos's repeated claims that Trump is "a rapist." And CBS News is reportedly considering settling with Trump in his lawsuit alleging that the network deceptively edited an interview with former vice president Kamala Harris before the election.
Trump's attorney, Quincy Bird, said he would pursue a "thorough" discovery process. "This case will now proceed to a very thorough discovery process and President Trump is committed to seeing this case through to a just conclusion," Bird told the Washington Free Beacon.
6- Another part of the Trump plan to realign the world, is to extricate America from communist globalist organizations like the World Health Organization (WHO). Now other countries are following Trump and getting out from under this questionable global health agenda.
Argentina Withdraws from WHO – Executive Board Pauses Approval of New Resolutions Pending Cost Reviews
QUOTE: Argentina’s maverick President, Javier Milei, declared Wednesday that he would follow the United States in withdrawing from the World Health Organization – citing “profound differences in health management, especially due to the pandemic, which led us to the longest confinement in the history of humanity.”
The announcement came as another blow to the morale of the Geneva-based specialized UN agency which has enjoyed broad support from member states of all political shades since its founding in 1948.
The financial fallout of the US withdrawal was evident in the proceedings where decisions to move forward with several new member state initiatives – addressing issues ranging from rare diseases to strengthening health finance – were paused until their costs could be more fully assessed.
7- It is clear that the United States has turned a corner on developing deep cooperation and friendship with other countries. It is advantagous to them to work with us and vice versa.
Guatemala Agrees to Take Deported Migrants from Other Countries.
QUOTE: In a significant policy shift, Guatemala’s President Bernardo Arevalo announced on Wednesday that Guatemala will accept migrants from other countries who are being deported from the United States. This statement came after a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Guatemala City.
Under the newly established “safe third country” agreement, President Arevalo stated that these deportees would later be repatriated to their countries of origin, with the United States covering the costs of these returns.
The deal with Guatemala follows another with El Salvador, headed by populist President Nayib Bukele, who had agreed to host violent criminals—U.S. citizens as well as criminal aliens—at his country’s CECOT mega-prison, where gang members have been incarcerated en masse as part of an anti-crime crusade that has reduced homicides by 98 percent.
8- The fewer Deep State employees snooping on private land to regulate puddles …the better for everyone!
Oh, don’t worry about these government people, they have their unions fighting to keep them all on our payroll. (The union is close to losing up to 60,000 federal employee members, expect them to fight like crazy to keep them all employed.)
Trump administration notifies 1,000 EPA employees they could be laid off 'immediately'
QUOTE: The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday warned over 1,000 employees that they could be terminated at a moment's notice, because they are considered "probationary" since they have worked for the agency for under a year.
The email was the latest effort by President Donald Trump's administration to downsize the federal government. Dozens of Justice Department attorneys and FBI agents were already firedlast month, and most federal employees were offered a buyout option if they resign by Feb. 6.
The email was sent to roughly 1,100 EPA employees who fell under the "probationary/trial” window.
9- Government paid abortion travel for government employees is unacceptable.
Pentagon scrubs Biden-era abortion travel policy
QUOTE: The Pentagon has struck a Biden administration policy of covering travel costs for service members and their dependents who must cross state lines to receive abortions and other reproductive care, according to a new memo.
The change, which took effect Tuesday, was announced in a memo posted by the Defense Travel Management Office on Wednesday.
The move is the latest Trump administration action meant to scrub Biden-era social policies that critics claim distract the military from its mission of defending the nation.
10- This is behavior we like to see catching on!
GOP-led states rush to align with Trump's agenda with DOGE committees and immigration bills
QUOTE: Republican governors and state lawmakers are rushing to explicitly align themselves with or mimic some of the most prominent actions President Donald Trump has taken since he was sworn in.
As state legislatures have convened across the country in recent weeks, elected GOP officials have sought to advance bills designed to help facilitate Trump’s mass deportation plans — some of which are named after or specifically reference the president. And governors and lawmakers in at least 11 states have attempted to create their own version of the Department of Government Efficiency, the outside advisory commission that Trump put tech billionaire Elon Musk in charge of to find ways to cut federal spending.
“Whether you want to call it a mandate or just a strong victory, it wouldn’t seem unusual to me for state leaders to look to emulate the example” set by Trump, said Zack Roday, a Republican operative who has worked for the political arms of several conservative governors.
The most recent example came in Oklahoma, where Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt on Monday issued an executive order to create a “Division of Government Efficiency” (called DOGE-OK) within the state’s agency in charge of human resources and information technology.
11- Lifting the burden of complying with the communist DEI agenda has business breathing a sigh of relief. It allows them to do what they are designed to do: make profits by providing goods and services that people want and need. We do not need a lectures on diversity when buying beer.
Google announced late Thursday that they were ditching DEI rules. They join a gaggle of companies getting rid of diversity initiatives including Amazon, Ford, McDonald’s, Meta Platforms, Walmart, Walt Disney, and Target.
News Corp CEO: Business Is Back With “Yoke of Woke Having Been Lifted”
QUOTE: Robert Thomson, who is CEO of the Murdoch-empire publications, said he believes there is a "tangible increase in business confidence here in the U.S. since the election."
News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson praised what he sees as the improved business conditions in the U.S. following the election, saying “the yoke of woke” has been lifted.
“We are seeing a tangible increase in business confidence here in the U.S. since the election,” Thomson said during his remarks to investors following second-quarter earnings. “The temporary turmoil of transactional tariffs aside, there is the confluence of economic optimism and a cultural awakening with the yoke of woke having been lifted. We believe these trends should lead to less superfluous, gratuitous regulation, greater capital formation, increased opportunities for all Americans and more candid, creative, compelling conversations. Hopefully, an era of censorship and self-censorship is receding into the distance.”
12- We have discussed our appreciation of fashion. This piece hits the mark in explaining why it is a subtle but important message in this Trump Administration. Read the entire piece at the link.
Melania Trump and the Aesthetics of War
QUOTE: Many things are coming into focus fast in this new era: the extent of the damage that has been done these past four years, the height of the task before the new administration, the determination with which Trump, Vance, and so many others are approaching that challenge. I am still processing wonders beyond imagining now in play in this country. But the clearest image of renewal, a gorgeous harbinger of needed change, is a literal one: Melania Trump, with just a handful of impeccable looks, has given America an extreme makeover.
Melania — with her trademark Louboutins, her snatched waists, and her impeccable clothing — is all the way back, and in all her splendor. But this time it feels like we may all be inspired to step it up a little. Her inauguration look, that to-die-for navy silk suit with the most iconic hat in politics since Lincoln’s stovepipe, broke TikTok with tributes. She could not have sent a clearer signal if she’d worn a chain mail suit: she is prepared to use fashion as a weapon, and as literally only she can wield it.
As the Zoomers say, Melania ate with that outfit. She came to slay. Looking great really is the best revenge, but this wisdom — once passed down from mothers to daughters — has become forgotten female knowledge.
Melania has perfected the art of feminine grace and propriety, and it’s contagious.
The vibes in D.C. in the opening days of the second Trump era were clear: Look your best—because America deserves it.
These things matter. The people who celebrate ugliness at the expense of classic Americana understand perfectly well that style and substance go hand in hand.
PRAY for divine intervention. God listens to our prayers and intervenes.
PRAY for President Trump and his entire administration. Pray for their energy and safety.
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