CABLE News Network (CNN), which has morphed from being a credible news source into a bastion of propaganda for war and American interventionism the way the Washington Post, The New York Times, NBC, and all the major Western news outlets have become, is also the most ‘anti-Trump’ among the lot.
During his first term from 2016 to 2020, CNN never failed to ‘confront’ President Donald Trump on anything that comes to its mind that Trump gamely parried by calling CNN “fake news” and its anchors and reporters as “horrible.”
Given this, it was really a surprise (or was it now a change of policy) when CNN analyst, Harry Enten, openly praised Trump last January 28, on the rise of his popularity as he entered his second term last January 20.
At 47 percent, Trump was up by 6 points, from 43 percent, during his first term in 2017 and from 41 percent during the poll in December, before his inauguration, according to the surveys of Reuters/Ipsos.
“This is a very different Donald Trump,” Enten enthused, “and the American public is very much more in line with him than they were during his entire first term.”
And Trump’s trust rating can only increase as he fulfills his campaign promises, signing more than 200 executive orders in the first hours of his taking office.
They include declaring a ‘state of national emergency’ at the border with Mexico and the designation of drug cartels as ‘foreign terrorist organizations,’ announcements that earned him standing ovations during his inaugural speech.
Both goes hand in hand, of course. Under the Democrats and Pres. Joe Biden, drug cartels expanded their operations to include human trafficking that compounded not only America’s problem with illegal immigration but with violent crimes as well.
Within 48 hours after Trump became president, the roundup of illegal immigrants begun that resulted to the arrest of more than 300 immigrants with violent criminal record and wanted by the INTERPOL. And the roundup has only begun.
Trump’s approach resonated everywhere and has become the “envy” of many in Europe, whose citizens are likewise fed up with their leadership that is only interested in implementing the globalist agenda of open borders, more wars, and DEI of the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Crime-weary Filipinos, for their part, reflected that Trump’s approach was the same forceful approach they supported during the term of President Rodrigo Duterte.
Indeed, during his first term, Trump brushed aside the daily dose of ‘poisonous intrigues’ from the Western corporate media against Duterte by praising Duterte for his tough stance against crime and illegal drugs thus frustrating the Western ‘Deep State’s’ effort to destabilize the Philippines.
For Trump, Duterte, and leaders like them, it is simply ‘common sense’ that to ensure a peaceful, and stable society and mobilize the people to support the government’s other, larger agenda, one must go hard against crime, not ‘babying’ criminals as what seems to be happening again.
The current administration can frame our current peace and order situation anyway it wants but the public, who daily fear for their safety and that of their families from being targeted by criminals made more craze by illegal drugs, know the reality on the ground.
No wonder then that the name ‘Duterte’ continues to mesmerize the millions of ordinary Filipinos.
Simply put, a tough stand against crime earns the people’s support.