Wind shivers hovered in the youth on Monday night in the nation’s investment as President-elect Donald J. Trump prepared to take the national oath of office inside the more secure U. S. Capitol Rotunda. It was fitting it was so windy in Washington, D. C. , on this Opening Moment. Progressives had long thought it would be a cool day in heaven before Republican Trump may be elected president afterwards.
But here he was, the man the departed loves to love, being sworn in as the 47th president of the United States.
‘ I Was Left by God’
Let’s face it, a lot of Trump Derangement Syndrome patients believed the 45th president would be in captivity by Jan. 20, 2025, a moment Trump in his inaugural target — for so many reasons — declared as “Liberation Day. ” Plenty of MAGA liberals clearly worried, also, that this wonderful drainer of the lake, the disrupter of the heavy state, had n’t make it to this time.
But by the grace of God and a part of an inch, Donald Trump stood before his fellow Americans and raised his right side to once again “solemnly pray to diligently do the Office of President of the United States. ” Democratic forgiveness and the sweet, wonderful punishment of success? Confident. The hands of heaven? Trump definitely believes therefore, and so do many of his followers.
“ I was saved by God to make America Great Again, ” he said to a standing ovation from his family and friends. Monitors panned to the senator ’s family, First Lady Melania Trump, and their son, Barron, who passionately nodded. His political critics, who have spent the better part of the previous generation trying to destroy him, kept their seats, their eyes filled with a mix of hatred and lost.
“That is why each moment under our leadership of British patriots we will be working to match every issue with respect and power and strength, ” Trump continued. “We will walk with purpose and frequency to bring back hope, humanity, safety, and peace for people of every race, religion, color, and creed. ”
“For British citizens, Jan. 20, 2025, is Liberation Day, ” the president triumphantly proclaimed to applause from the liberated and stunned expressions from his predecessors, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrats ’ DEI-promoted replacement candidate Trump vanquished in November’s election.
Look at all this guy— and this region — survived to get to this instant.
‘They Call It Lawfare ’
Trump faced multiple criminal prosecutions through Democrats ’ weaponization of the criminal justice system, particularly Biden’s corrupt Department of Justice. He was convicted in a bunny jury in Manhattan on trumped-up fees, even as the conflicted communist judge presiding over the show trial eventually sentenced Trump to no penalties.
“This has been a weaponization of government — they call it lawfare — never happened to any extent like this, but never happened in our country before, ” Trump said following the judge’s impotent “sentence, ” just days before the president ’s inauguration. “It’s an unfairness of righteousness. ”
The same persons who warned that Trump and the Republicans who backed him were a danger to democracy sorely tried to remove the GOP’s most popular candidate for president from the vote. That lawfare stunt eventually failed hard, when the U. S. Supreme Court in a majority ruling found the Democrats ’ undemocratic action illegal.
Throughout the past four years, the left’s lawfare method has been about socially terrible and bankrupting the billionaire entrepreneur but that he could no longer pose a danger to their authority. With each imprisonment, each dish shot, each accusation, each light room, Trump emerged stronger in the surveys. Americans saw through the fruit state game the departed was playing. That point was a little wonder, given the business press were all in on the games, explicitly interfering in the 2024 vote.
‘God Saved This Guy’
The push to prevent Trump at all costs took a fatal move at a hot July night battle rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where a would-be assassin slipped through the criminally ignorant watch of the U. S. Secret Service and fired off several shots at the Republican presidential candidate and supporters. Trump was hit in the ear, narrowly escaping a mortal wounding. Corey Comperatore, a rallygoer, was killed in the attack, and two others were seriously injured.
Blood streaming down his face, Trump stood up on that rally stage and urged Americans to “Fight! Fight! Fight! ” That iconic moment, the ultimate symbol of Trump’s indomitable spirit, may very well have sealed his victory in November. I was at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee just two days later. The feeling of a guiding hand of providence was palpable in the building, particularly as Trump surprised the crowd and showed up with a bandaged ear on the first night of the convention.
“Honestly, I’m telling you that God saved this guy, ” Nirmal Paul, a delegate from New York, told me above the din of the convention floor at the Fiserv Forum, home of the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks in downtown Milwaukee.
“ I think he was protected by God, ” Paul said, gravely adding, “One inch, he’s done. ”
That’s a sentiment shared by a lot of Americans who these days are feeling delivered from four long years of incompetence and corruption and cover-ups in their federal government. Undoubtedly, the deep failures of the Biden administration — crippling inflation, an invasion of our border, leftist identity politics injected into every aspect of life — had a lot to do with the left’s deep losses in November.
But the guy who fought like hell to reclaim American greatness, the former president whom Democrats declared a threat to democracy, has survived everything the left has dished out to preserve this nearly 250-year-old democratic republic.
You could say providence had something to do with this “Liberation Day. ” Trump definitely does.
“National Unity is now returning to America, and confidence and pride is soaring like never before. In everything we do, my administration will be inspired by a strong pursuit of excellence and unrelenting success, ” Trump said in his inaugural speech. “We will not forget our country. We will not forget our Constitution. And we will not forget our God. ”
Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.
