Now showing, "Naked Trump 2½: The Smell of Heroism"

No particular reason, today just feels like a good time to check in on Donald Trump's robust fulfillment of his campaign promises, such as tackling Joe Biden's inflation, battling America's most vicious enemies, domestic and foreign, and of course making Americans healthier, happier, and sublimely harmonious.

Noted are only his latest, robust fulfillments. Nor is this a comprehensive itemization of his indefatigable labors devoted to making America great again. Such a survey, confined to even a couple hours of his magnificent feats in any given day, would exhaust me beyond endurance. Here we go.

Trump said yesterday that "we ... are in the process of taking [aluminum] out" of childhood vaccines that protect against potentially deadly whooping cough, polio, and flu. For "there were rumors about" the harmful effects of aluminum in vaccines "for a long time, but we’re having [it] taken out." Which could cut America's supply of childhood inoculations in half ...

He persists in cranking up a tariffs regimen that's boosting the cost of imported household items and foods. Speaking to The Wall Street Journal, a Chicago grocery store manager estimated that his prices have risen about 20% this year, adding, "[Customers] come in and say, ‘What the fuck?'" ...

He has to date engaged separate 20-hour supervisions of the Rose Garden's pavement, the White House's quarter-billion-dollar ballroom construction, and the Oval Office's "gilded rococo hellscape" designs (NYT), said aides, as the government remained shut down ...

He took $625 million that Congress had appropriated for carbon-capture programs and transferred it to the lung-clogging, atmosphere-heating coal industry ...

He began the process of instituting unparalleled changes at the Internal Revenue Service that permit the agency to launch vindictive, politically motivated criminal investigations of left-leaning groups to which everyday Americans contribute time and money, saying that such organizations are reducing Democratic-led cities to anarchy ...

He recently signed a national security memo that targets "sophisticated, organized," "anti-fascist" movements promoting "common threads" of "anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity," and demonstrating "hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality" ...

He geared up for a land war in Venezuela against fellow authoritarian Nicolás Maduro for having orchestrated a crime-committing "invasion" of the U.S. by Tres de Aragua gang members, although the National Intelligence Council twice concluded that Maduro's regime has done so such thing. That assessment cost two NIC officials their jobs ...

He prophesied yesterday that "very few people are gonna be" at Saturday's No Kings protests, since it's a "stupid move." (Other forecasters, admittedly disadvantaged by their lack of Trump's preternatural powers of divination, expect the number to exceed the five million who turned out in June) ...

Trump's echoing gnome in the U.S. House, God's vicar, alleged the No Kings protests will be attended by "pro-Hamas" and "antifa people," while the vicar's majority whip and Trump's subecho Tom Emmer ventured that Saturday's event is a "hate America rally" to be populated by the Democratic Party's "terrorist wing" ...

And Trump's veep JD defended Young Republican leaders' Telegram chats in which, among other ruminations, they lauded Adolf Hitler, called Blacks "monkeys," and praised partisans who support slavery. Mr. Vance chastised those who "focus on what kids say in group chats, especially young boys" — which they weren't. On their part, he saw no hostility towards American morality.

I'm afraid I haven't time to survey Trump's many business dealings of late that promise to accrue to assorted citizens' assured safety from insidious national security threats, such as inviting Qatar's Air Force to help valiantly defend against ... something to do with at-risk Idahoans.    

And there you have it: an incomplete yet quite telling record of merely a week or so of Donald Trump's robust — nay, heroic — fulfillments of his campaign promises. We must compose our charmed emotions, never allow them to get out of hand, for pride goeth before the fall.

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Cross-posted in Substack.