In the first month of his second term, President Donald Trump has set a dizzying pace. He is “flooding the zone” with non-stop executive orders, meetings with foreign leaders and press briefings. He has visited disaster zones in North Carolina and California and major sporting events like the Super Bowl and the Daytona 500.
His cabinet is being confirmed and his special agent, Elon Musk, is working overtime with his team at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to expose waste, fraud, and abuse throughout the federal bureaucracy.
Democrats are reeling, unsure how to react to the non-stop action. The hostile media hates his agenda and likes his accessibility but is finding it impossible to keep up with “the speed of Trump.”
Of course, Trump and his team are tirelessly working because of the horrible situation, at home and abroad, that he inherited from President Joe Biden. In quickly addressing these problems, Trump is accomplishing political miracles, which is in stark contrast to the wretched record of the Biden administration.
Biden barely worked and took more vacation days than any other President in modern American history. According to data compiled by the Republican National Committee, Biden spent 577 days on vacation, or 39% of his presidency.
When Biden was “working,” he was either dazed, confused, or falling asleep on the job. Sadly, he used his powerful office to do great harm, such as granting more presidential pardons and commutations than any other President in U.S. history.
Biden inherited a prosperous country, a secure border, and a world at peace. During his four years in office, Biden destroyed all the positive conditions Trump left him in America and worldwide.
Biden created economic chaos with his reckless spending that resulted in high inflation and high interest rates. He stopped construction of the border wall, reversed the “Remain in Mexico” policy, reinstituted “Catch and Release” and encouraged people from around the world to illegally cross our open border.
Consequently, millions of illegal aliens entered the United States, taking jobs and opportunities from tax paying citizens and adding a $400 billion burden to American citizens.
Despite his horrific record on the economy and the border, the worst aspect of the Biden presidency involved foreign affairs and national security. With his botched and embarrassing military withdrawal from Afghanistan, Biden encouraged Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine. He made the situation worse at a press briefing when he said, “It’s one thing if it’s a minor incursion and we end up having to fight about what to do and not do.”
Biden’s confusing statement and his lack of leadership were certainly factors in the Ukraine war starting in February of 2022. It is still raging three years later and the horrific toll is at least one million dead or wounded Ukrainians and Russians.
Biden also empowered and enriched the radical Iranian regime, which funded an array of jihadist groups. Among their beneficiaries is the terrorist group Hamas, which launched an attack against Israel on October 7, 2023, that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians.
This attack would have never happened under President Trump for Iran was facing severe economic sanctions during his first term. Without Iran’s help, Hamas would have never had the wherewithal to attack Israel.
While there is a temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, Gaza has been destroyed, and the terrorists continue to hold 70 hostages. Sadly, of those hostages, at least 34 are believed to be already dead.
With two ongoing wars and a military that was decimated by the Biden administration’s woke policies, President Trump is facing an exceedingly challenging task. However, he has already made stunning progress, such as securing the release of American hostages from Venezuela, Belarus, and Russia. Furthermore, military recruitment is showing massive improvement, thanks to Trump’s election.
President Trump has had promising conversations with Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and peace talks will be starting soon.
Trump has also met with Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu and offered a bold plan to redevelop Gaza while relocating Palestinians. He continues to pressure Hamas to release the remaining hostages. Without Trump’s involvement, the current ceasefire would not have been achieved.
Trump desperately wants these wars to end and for there to be peace throughout the world. In his second inaugural address on January 20, 2025, Trump said “My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier.”
Trump intends to achieve these goals by his policy of “peace through strength.”
These policies worked well in his first term. Trump was able to diminish the threats from North Korea by his successful personal diplomacy with the dictator Kim Jong Un. For those efforts, he was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2018.
Two years later, Trump was nominated again for his success in brokering a peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. Trump received his third nomination in 2020 for his success in brokering a deal creating normalized economic relations between Kosovo and Serbia.
He received another nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize in October of 2020 for his work in achieving Middle East peace. This nomination was made by a group of Australian law professors who claimed he was “reducing America’s tendency to get involved in any and every war.”
In January of 2024, U.S. Representative Claudia Tenney (R-NY) nominated Trump for his role in brokering the Abraham Accords which normalized “relations between Israel, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates…Morocco and Sudan.”
Three weeks after his latest election victory, Trump was nominated again. This nomination was made by a Ukrainian member of parliament, Oleksandr Merezhko, who said that Trump has made “considerable contributions to world peace, and that he can make more in the future.”
Thanks to President Trump, peace is finally a possibility in both Ukraine and Gaza. If he achieves those historic peace deals, even the leftwing Nobel Peace Prize committee will have to accept reality and present him the award he so richly deserves.
Jeff Crouere is a native New Orleanian and his award-winning program, “Ringside Politics,” airs Saturdays from Noon until 1 p.m. CT nationally on Real America’s Voice TV Network & AmericasVoice.News and weekdays from 7-9 a.m. & 6-7 p.m. CT on WGSO 990-AM & Wgso.com. He is a political columnist, the author of America’s Last Chance and provides regular commentaries on the Jeff Crouere YouTube channel and on Crouere.net. For more information, email him at jcrouere@gmail.com
