"One of the Best Presidents of All Time"

A Facebook friend who attended No Kings yesterday posted about it there, with photos. A friend of hers — who I do not know — responded with this:

It bewilders me that any American would be against one of the best President’s of all time. World peace and our economy are up. Gas, drug prices, taxes and crime are down. It’s self-defeating to think what’s good is bad and what’s bad is good. What you’re seeing on the left-wing news is designed to get an emotional reaction but try to get an objective view of the incredible improvements in such a short amount of time.

This friend is a white man of about my age. He doesn't have much of an online presence, except I can see he's a retired banker who lives in what appears to be a white-flight suburb of Kansas City, Missouri.

World peace is up. Hmm. I guess he believes the "eight peace deals in eight days" line.

Taxes are down (for him, maybe). But tariffs — which are taxes, especially on people who have to spend all of their income — are way up, and literal taxes are also going up on lower income people.

Drug prices may or may not be up, that depends on formularies, but drug insurance prices are up. My 2026 plan, I was recently informed, would be double what it was for 2025. I was advised to drop it and go out of pocket: that would be cheaper. And my plan insurance is about 50% higher, but he didn't touch on that... of course.

Gas prices are not controlled by the president. When they go up —which they will, for whatever reason —will that be Trump's fault? I doubt this guy will lay claim to it then.

Crime is indeed down — nice to hear a Republican acknowledge that! — but it was going down before the Trump regime began.

"Our economy is up" — that should be an empirical question, but the Trump regime is doing everything it can to make sure we don't have the data to be able to tell. American consumers don't seem to think it is, though, according to polls. This latest poll has Trump 15 points underwater on his handling of the economy. (52% disapprove vs. 37% approve.)

He doesn't mention anything about abridgement of rights, people being snatched off the streets, blowing up boats in international waters, violation of Posse Comitatus, causing the deaths of untold thousands by cutting off international aid, the venality of the regime's open corruption, or the many other horrors that have happened since January 21.

But Mr.-Former-Banker, comfortable in his suburban house, doesn't care about any of those things. His taxes will be lower and he thinks things will be fairer to him. None of that DEI stuff. In one of his later comments he said, "We on the right don’t care about one’s level of melanin, only with one’s character."

I'm willing to bet he thought plenty about melanin when he considered a location for his home purchase.