All the media focused on was other leaders at the U.N. laughing at President Trump during his Tuesday speech, but Andrew Klavan says they entirely missed the point – and he explained on Wednesday’s episode of “The Andrew Klavan Show.”
“So, who’s laughing at him, Iran? Germany? Who, as he said himself, has just made a devil’s bargain with Vladimir Putin to become dependent on his oil. Germany, which actually likes Russia more than it likes us? Who’s laughing at him, Syria? China? Who has been cheating people for all these years and oppressing their own people? Who’s laughing at him?” Klavan asked. “I thought he handled that moment with charm, it was a typical moment of Trump braggadocio, I’m not saying it wasn’t, but I thought he handled it with genuine charm and they ended up applauding for it, and he kind of won them over.”
Video and transcript below:
So, let’s take a look at what happened at the UN yesterday as Donald Trump made this incredible speech, a really powerful speech that he made to the UN, and how people reacted to it, and what it means the way they reacted. He started out – there was this brief moment when he was doing his usual Trump braggadocio thing and they laughed at his typical Trumpiness:
President Trump: In less than two years my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country. (Laughter from the crowd) So true, didn’t expect that reaction but that’s okay.”
Now I want to play Mika Brzezinski’s reaction, because it is typical of the press’s reaction, I’m just not picking on her, this is basically the way the left-wing press played it:
Mika Brzezinski: I think it was a significant moment. What you saw there tells you a lot about how the world leaders see Donald Trump, and they are openly laughing at him, at his tweets and his loyalty oaths, at his sexism and his makeshift meetings with dictators, at his lies and his reality show policies, aren’t they? The world is laughing at the President of the United States, and Donald Trump’s America has become the butt of a big joke.”
So, who’s laughing at him, Iran? Germany? Who, as he said himself, has just made a devil’s bargain with Vladimir Putin to become dependent on his oil. Germany, which actually likes Russia more than it likes us? Who’s laughing at him, Syria? China? Who has been cheating people for all these years and oppressing their own people? Who’s laughing at him? I thought he handled that moment with charm, it was a typical moment of Trump braggadocio, I’m not saying it wasn’t, but I thought he handled it with genuine charm and they ended up applauding for it, and he kind of won them over. Then he goes on to prove what he says, he talks about his accomplishments:
President Trump: “America’s economy is booming like never before. Since my election we’ve added ten trillion dollars in wealth, the stock market is at an all-time high in history, and jobless claims are at a 50-year low. African-American, Hispanic-American and Asian-American unemployment have all achieved their lowest levels ever recorded. We’ve added more than 4 million new jobs, including half a million manufacturing jobs. We have passed the biggest tax cuts and reforms in American history. We’ve started the construction of a major border wall, and we have greatly strengthened border security. We have secured record funding for our military – 700 billion dollars this year and 700 and sixteen billion dollars next year. Our military will soon be more powerful than it has ever been before.”
So, laugh at that! I want you to hear how the New York Times, a former newspaper, covered this. They fact-checked him. So, they’re checking the facts, what he just said, and they say: Well, he’s right that the United States stock market is soaring and unemployment rates for Hispanics, African-Americans and Asian-Americans have reached record lows, but he omitted less flattering indicators when describing an economy booming like never before. For example, GDP growth is healthy, but it reached higher points as recently as 2014.
Which is garbage because it once spiked, maybe twice spiked during the Obama era as Obama sat on the GDP with his stupid regulations and his stupid health care plan. This is a new unleashed economy, this is an economy on the run because of Trump’s policies. Now they go on: “The unemployment rate is at an 18-year low, but it’s higher than several months during the 1940s.”
What I’m saying is, the way you see things reveals who you are, it reveals what your principles are. The point is these are amazing accomplishments, I’m not telling you to like Trump, I’m not telling you Trump is a good guy, I’m telling you he’s doing a great job – these are amazing accomplishments.
Finally, the reason The New York Times and all the Left is so pinched, so angry, is the reason Mika Brzezinski and a lot of the press, when they hear that laughter, they feel like “oh my goodness, oh my goodness Iran is laughing at us! Now we’re the butt of jokes in Iran!” Which I can’t say on the air what my reaction to that is, but this is why, it’s what Trump said – he defended American exceptionalism, he said we don’t want an empire, we don’t want to tell you how to live, we want to live the way we want to live. He excoriated Iran, he defended his trade principles by pointing out what China is doing, that it’s not free trade if China is messing around with us.
But then he just talked about the America that he wants to protect and defend and to serve as America’s president:
President Trump: “As for Americans, we know what kind of future we want for ourselves. We know what kind of a nation America must always be. In America we believe in the majesty of freedom and the dignity of the individual. We believe in self-government and the rule of law, and we prized the culture that sustains our liberty, a culture built on strong families, deep faith, and fierce independence. We celebrate our heroes, we treasure our traditions, and above all we love our country.”
When the left has a pinched view of what Trump is doing, when they have a pinched view of what Trump is saying, when they cringe at the laughter of the UN – a corrupt, low organization – this is what they hate. What they hate is that visceral patriotism that I believe he actually feels, and that he is also putting forward, that vision of a country that is free, that loves its freedom, that loves its traditions. That is like saying the name of Jesus to a possessed soul, that’s what you’re getting from the New York Times. The New York Times is like their head is spinning around 360 degrees and green bile is spewing out of them, because he mentioned what America is, how great it is, that’s what they don’t like and that’s what they don’t support.