The writer is in the US.
THERE was a saying in the old Soviet Union: Never believe anything until it has been officially denied. Allow me to update that for Donald Trump’s America: Never believe anything until it has been ignored or under-reported by the legacy media.
I was reminded of this the other day when a better-than-expected March jobs report was published. Economists had been predicting that around 60,000 jobs would be created that month; as it turned out, the number was just shy of 180,000, three times more.
There was a time when this would have been considered good news. But not in 2026. What we call the legacy media, most of which is vehemently and unashamedly anti-Trump, has hardly touched the story, downplaying it wherever possible. You see, for those seeking work, a flourishing job market is a good thing, but not for those festering in the last stages of Trump Derangement Syndrome, which includes most of the media. What is good for ordinary Americans is not always good for America’s Trump-hating elites.
I received an email recently from a friend in the United Kingdom. She informed me that British coverage of the Trump administration ‘is routinely 100 per cent negative’. I believe her. This may well explain why friends and family members, even those who oppose policies such as open borders, chemically or surgically mutilating children, and DEI, frequently berate me when Trump’s name is mentioned. My older, Brexit-supporting, anti-mass-immigration brother once said to me, ‘Surely you’re not voting for Donald Trump, are you?’ Well, I did vote for Trump, twice, and have yet to regret it. Besides, who was I supposed to vote for? Hillary? Kamala? And further the destruction of all I hold dear?
When it comes to the media ignoring or obfuscating Trump’s successes, it is not much better here in the United States. It has now become almost routine to ignore or downplay Trump’s successes, which are many in number. If your only source of information about the war in Iran were liberal media, for example, you could easily be forgiven for believing that Americans are losing and Iranians are winning, when in truth America has emasculated Iran militarily and prevented it from being able to threaten the world with nuclear annihilation.
One could also be forgiven for believing that many Americans are hoping that America will lose the war against Iran. They don’t say it out loud, but you hear it in their voices. How many Trump-haters were secretly disappointed that the US military were able to rescue the second airman and prevent him from becoming a hostage of the Islamic Republic? It pains me to say so, but I suspect it was quite a sizeable number.
Secretly, the Starmers and Macrons of the world are relieved that Trump has severely hamstrung Iran, but don’t expect them to thank him. Supporting America and hoping for an American victory is now considered ‘controversial’ in many rarefied circles, largely inhabited by people who feel unsafe when they are exposed to too many American flags.
Please God, let this war in Iran end soon and with America’s warriors victorious. Let us all also hope that that the Iranian people will rid themselves of their murderous, theocratic rulers.
Notwithstanding what has already been achieved in Iran – its navy and air force destroyed, its missiles and drones incinerated, and much of its military and civil leadership eliminated – one must always show great caution when trying to predict the outcomes of wars.
This conflict is, of course, an unfolding story, but what about Trump’s other achievements since he entered the White House for a second presidential term over a year ago, achievements largely ignored or downplayed by the legacy media, aka the radically leftist media, on both sides of the Atlantic? (Nothing unites Western elites like their pathological detestation of Trump.) Compared with his presidential predecessor, Trump’s first 14 months in office read like the beginning of a new golden age for the nation set to celebrate its 250th birthday in July.
I have already mentioned the recent jobs report that exploded expectations and caused so much consternation on the progressive left. But I could have mentioned a plethora of other successes under Trump’s watch.
Within a month of taking office, Trump closed the deliberately porous border with Mexico. For reasons I struggle to understand – cheap labour, potential Democratic voters? – Biden and Mayorkas had opened it, allowing millions to enter America illegally.
Despite tariffs, inflation has fallen dramatically, to 2.4 per cent in 2026 from a high of 8.0 per cent in 2022 under Biden.
Although violent crime remains unacceptably high in urban areas such as Chicago and Detroit controlled by Democrats, the murder rate is at its lowest since 1900.
Before the war against Iran, petrol prices had been declining rapidly, having hit a record high of over $5 per gallon in June 2022 when Biden was in office. Thanks largely to Trump, America is now the world’s top oil producer and virtually energy-independent. Let us hope we never have to watch an American president again licking the spittle of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman while giving him a ‘fist bump’, as Biden did in July 2022 in a slavish attempt to encourage Saudi Arabia and OPEC to increase oil production in anticipation of the midterms.
To conclude, if you don’t like seeing young people dying from fentanyl; so-called gender-affirming care for small children; boys playing in girls’ sports; less-qualified people being promoted and awarded scholarships or government contracts due to their sex, race, and ethnicity; members of Nato not paying their fair share in defence spending; the legion of regulations that kill the enterprising spirit in man and bring about a sclerotic business environment, especially in red states such as California and New York; a taxpayer-funded public media thar spews a seemingly endless stream of anti-American and anti-Christian propaganda to every corner of the United States; criminal illegal aliens killing and raping American citizens; men pretending to be women being promoted to high-ranking positions in the US military, and the entire woke substructure that is eating away at the body of this once healthy and thriving nation and setting ordinary people against one another because they’ve been assigned, often arbitrarily, different identities.
If you object to any of these things, the last 14 months could have been much worse.
