Here, revealed for the first time, is President Donald J. Trump's secret weapon:
He rarely confronts anything smaller than Mount McKinley.
Trump does not pick the easy fights. Too many Republicans are happy to cut a tax or two, sign a few proclamations, and call it a day.
Why challenge the left?
They might push back.
Political fights? Oooh, messy. No, thanks. Let’s be friends.
This battered-wife approach ("The left beats me because they love me") defined such GOP invertebrates as Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., both presidents Bush, and too many governors and state lawmakers to count.
Unlike these weaklings, Trump does not avoid battles.
He commands them with gatling guns ablaze. Even more so in his second term, Trump is compiling victories as Democrats fail to foil a Republican who is unburdened by general, unfocused fear.
Trump's takeover of Washington, D.C.'s police department is just such an initiative.
Most Republicans would lack the courage to confront Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser. Only Trump would imagine running the DCPD via his Justice Department.
Trump's move so floored Bowser that she sounds conciliatory and even hopes that the city council will ditch DC’s sanctuary-city status. This is as close as Democrats get to eating out of Trump's hand.
Trump's Census-reform efforts are equally brash. Republicans have watched Democratic governors count illegal aliens as state residents.
These swollen populations gave California, Illinois, New York, and other Democratic states additional U.S. House seats, more Electoral College votes, and bonus federal dollars for highways, education, and healthcare — all by corruptly including illegals among the citizens and legal immigrants who should be enumerated.
Trump said: No mas! As he declared on Aug. 7, via Truth Social: "People who are in our Country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS."
Democrats will resist.
They will insist that people who invaded America should be included when deciding each state’s sway in the U.S. House and Electoral College.
This will expose, once and for all, Democrats' true motive for demolishing America’s borders: To bolster their power, by all means necessary.
Rather than merely slow illegal border crossings, Trump has the brass simply to padlock the Southern frontier. Trump swiftly accomplished the impossible.
Compare the 7,832 Southwestern border incursions under Trump in July 2025 to 213,593 in July 2021, under Joe Biden: Down 96%. (Please see the chart reflecting this change here.)
July was "the third consecutive month with zero US Border Patrol releases into the interior," the Department of Homeland Security reported. "President Trump didn't just manage the crisis — he obliterated it," said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. "No more excuses. No more releases."
Even better news, "In less than 200 days, 1.6 MILLION illegal immigrants have left the United States population," Noem announced Thursday. "This is massive. This means safer streets, taxpayer savings, pressure off of schools and hospital services, and better job opportunities for Americans. Thank you, President Trump!"
Previous presidents merely have lost sleep over Mexico’s über-violent cartels.
The Jalisco, Sinaloa, and other cartels are de facto narco-dictatorships — crime-fueled fiefdoms within Mexico. President Claudia Sheinbaum yielded to Trump’s pressure on Wednesday. She extradited 26 cartel kingpins to America, atop 29 others in February.
Once tried, convicted, and imprisoned, they and their firearms and fentanyl no longer will jeopardize American safety, health, and lives.
Previous presidents have pursued peace, namely among the U.S. and key players with whom America shared high stakes, such as China, Russia, and Israel.
As for smaller blazes, let them burn.
Trump went his own way: After securing four first-term Abraham Accords between Israel and its former enemies, Trump 47 has united nations to end disputes, cease fires, and sign full-blown peace treaties.
So far, he has accomplished this with Israel and Iran, India and Pakistan, Egypt and Ethiopia, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cambodia and Thailand, and Armenia and Azerbaijan.
At this writing, Trump is in Alaska, trying to bring peace to Russia and Ukraine.
According to NBC News’ Alexander Smith, Russian President Vladimir Putin "said the Trump administration is making 'quite energetic and sincere efforts to stop the fighting, stop the crisis, and reach agreements that are of interest to all parties involved in this conflict.'"
The left’s "evil war hawk" is a titanium dove. Who saw that coming?
Trump’s friends and foes should agree that his audacity, relentlessness, and overall Mount McKinley-sized fortitude belong in the "Guiness Book of World Records."
Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor. Read Deroy Murdock's Reports — Read More Here.
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