- Trump: Trials and triumphs of a political maverick
– By Soney Antai
Even the best of futurists could not forsee it coming. If anyone foresaw anything at all, what actually happened was different from what they saw, in mold and magnitude. One self-styled prophet had voiced what he passed off as a futurama, and predicted a Harris win; but it never happened. The tall lanky man had lied in God’s name; God never sent him.
But I tell you with a yell: it wasn’t just the win, but the how and the manner of it, that nuked the Dems. Say it loud: Donald J. Trump, the maverick business magnate-turned politician, the convicted 45th American president, who was defeated in 2020 by incumbent President Joe Biden, returned from political hiatus to inaugurate a phenomenal political comeback to the White House. With a bang! The date was the 6th of November, when vote counting was still going on in some states after the close of voting the previous day.
What a twist in the tale and caulk to the broken circle of American politics! Trump, who took the American presidency in 2016, not having held any political office before, grudgingly handed over to Biden in 2020. Biden was to contest against Trump this time round, but the gods of the Democratic Party thought otherwise and pushed the old man aside. In his place, without going through any convention, they imposed ultra-liberal Vice President the Kamala Harris on the party fewer than 200 days to the polls. Well, the rest, as they would say, is history.
The the arrogant, morally handicapped, abortion crazy Dems were cocksure they would win, afterall they had once, four years earlier, whacked Trump’s political arse. But they never realised how far they had abandoned the people, who now had a chance to arrest their premature victory assumptions mid air. And they did it in grand style!
Did I hear you say, bad old revenge? Not so fast. It’s all about the American people. In the words of Kamala, the American people owe “no allegiance to a president or political party.” They owe allegiance to the nation’s constitution. And come January 20, 2025, Biden would be handing over to the man he would rather see locked away as a felon. He has already invited him over to the White House to discuss transition matters. Hopefully, Kamala will be there too.
Just for the sake of asking, how would Harris, who grudgingly conceded defeat, keep her face seeing Trump after inauguration standing behind the Seal of the President of the United States (PUTOS) one more time? Yea, she was sounding like the seal is hers and she gives it to whoever she wills. The other day during one of her husting outings, Kamala with contorted face, tightened fist, railed, Trump “should never again stand behind the Seal of the President of the United States, ever again! Never again! Never again!” She repeated, “Never again” four bad times with huge intensity while jerking her clenched right fist up and down as if she wanted to wring it from its socket. It was that intense! Never knew her face could spark such fire! Never knew she could play Nigeria’s ‘Emi lokan’ politics that much. So what would she be doing now with Trump back big time? She said she only conceded losing the election, and not “the fight that fueled this campaign.” Really? What a fight, that! The foot soldiers had deserted the battle field and even abandoned their military bases, and their supposed commanding doesn’t realise it?
Well, Trump is a bad guy, and that’s why he was impeached twice while in office, put on trial and convicted on all 34 counts. He escaped assassination twice during his electioneering to return to the White House, got called a fascist, Hitler lover, and racist. The Kamala camp had two former US Presidents behind them, but he had none. They lined up Hollywood celebrities to desecrate, disgrace and decelerate him. Then the corporate media represented by CNN, MSNBC, NBC, came down on him relentlessly. How he had the vim and verve to face such adversities without backing down remains a topic for study in Political Science classes.
Trump did not just win by the electorate vote as he did in 2016. This time round, he scored more than the required 270 electoral votes but almost 300 (as I am writing this). He also won the popular vote. It’s the first time in 20 years that the Republican Party did that. His votes cut across the Hispanics, Blacks, Whites, Latinos, as well as everything in between. It’s been one of the greatest electoral comebacks in the history of the US. He literally tore down the Dems, who are now fishing for scapegoats for the failure of their indelicate beliefs and behaviours towards the American people. They blame it on misogyny; on Obama; Biden, among others, but not themselves and their evil anti-God beliefs and practices.
So, how did the old man nuke the Dems and secured such a resounding victory? So hugely did Trump trump the Dems that even a CNN writer admitted, “Democrats are shell shocked and are mourning. But they are also beginning to cast blame.”
It is apparent the Americans did not believe the 94 felony incidents against Trump were in order. They saw them, going by what they said by their votes, as trumped up charges. They didn’t also feel okay with the Dems’ disgusting plan for their kids trying to ignore the firm, unbroken differences between the God-made sexes. They felt disgusted with Kamala’s evil stance on abortion. The woman who has refused to give birth to a child of her own must have been seen as one out to destroy America’s future, which lies with children. Her constant call for abortion-on-demand across all America didn’t sit well with most Americans. The open borders Kamala encouraged didn’t help her case. The chameleonic posturing about her identity as Indian or black, fell short of integrity, however defined. She hates Christianity with a passion, but shamelessly went to a public assembly misnamed church to campaign. At one time she got angry blurting, “How dare we speak, Merry Christmas!’ How dare we!” During her botched campaign, when she overheard someone hailing, “Jesus is Lord”, Kamala turned in his direction and mockingly replied that he was in the wrong place, and nodding her head repeatedly, added, You could go to the smaller one down the street. She never wanted Jesus Christ in her campaigns. Pity! And the evangelicals were waiting for her.
Most importantly, the Biden-Kamala era left American homes in serious economic crisis. The prices of groceries and rents were up there, but all they were busy with was chasing their fancies. Their flip-flop policy towards Israel must have pitted their administration against the powerful Jewish lobby in the country. Clearly, Kamala was not to be trusted with foreign American policy. She just hasn’t gotten the skills. You can’t be American president and not be a tough and rugged foreign policy guy. The cognitive and physical decline of Biden didn’t help her chances, as she stood by and watched Biden floundering and not do anything about it. Yes, like informing the Party apparatchik.
Their failure leaves the world a better place. Trump should do all within his power to better the lives of Americans. He should, as he has promised, work towards stopping wars around the world. God spared his life from the Thomas Crooks of this world for a time like this. He should keep his faith in Jesus Christ stronger so as to keep the cheers that have heralded his second coming running, otherwise the same cheering crowd may in time turn into a jeering mob.