Way back in 2015, when the rumors began to circulate about Donald Trump running for president, rumors we had heard for decades, I was shocked at how many “smart people” — those snobs I enjoy heckling as “#GOPSmartSet” — underestimated The Donald.
Shrugging off the idea Trump would actually run was fair enough. Like I said, he’d been flirting with the idea for decades. Even I would have bet it was a publicity stunt.
No, what surprised me was how #GOPSmartSet and the elite media laughed off Trump as a clown, a huckster, a carnival barker, and bankrupt loser. That, to me, was wholly ridiculous.
To begin with, Trump was in his fourth decade of pop culture relevance. Other than Oprah, how many Americans have remained relevant since the eighties, are more than a nostalgia act today?
On top of that, Trump was not only a potent brand, but with his skyscrapers, he had single-handedly altered the landscapes of some of the biggest cities in the world, he had come back from the brink of bankruptcy (no small thing), he had conquered the Manhattan real estate market (the most competitive and cutthroat in the world), he was in his 14th year — fourteen! — of The Apprentice, a primetime hit on a major broadcast network, and he was a bestselling author.
Unless you’re a fool, and let’s face it, most of America’s political and media “experts” are fools, you don’t write off a man like that.
What’s more, on the political front, Trump single-handedly muscled Barack Obama into producing his birth certificate. Trump bucked the media, bucked the political establishment, and forced Obama’s hand. I’ve never believed for a moment Obama was born anywhere but the U.S., but Trump’s effectiveness, his fearlessness and skill with this third rail, blew my mind. Trump also stripped the media and Democrats of the “birther” weapon, which is why they fought so bitterly against the simple production of that document. The left loved the birther weapon, and now — thanks to Trump’s political and media skills — it was gone.
Nevertheless…
Had you asked me in 2015 if Trump had a chance at winning the nomination, much less the presidency, I would have said no, and probably did on a number of occasions. My point is that even I underestimated the guy. But here we are in the fourth year of Trump’s objectively successful presidency, and he is still surprising our idiotic “experts,” he’s still underestimated, and he’s still doing what we are told is impossible.
So I thought the signing of the first phase of the China trade deal would be a good time to jump in the Wayback Machine and give our stupid and useless “experts” a face job — to look back at all the things our corrupt political and media “experts” assured and reassured us Trump could not or would not do … just before he went ahead and did.
If I’m missing any, feel free to complete the list in the comments…
full story at https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/16/nolte-the-china-trade-deal-and-22-other-times-trump-made-fools-of-the-experts/