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23 January 2026
Hello Folks,
On 19 December, President Vladimir Putin held his traditional end-of-year press conference in Moscow, where he fielded questions from a total of more than 2 million submitted by the public, speaking for four and a half hours—and the leftist Western media completely ignored it.
This week, on 20 January, President Donald Trump held a nearly two-hour-long White House press briefing to mark the one-year anniversary of his second inauguration, where touted the accomplishments of his first year back in office—and the leftist Western media completely ignored it.
While it’s standard practice for the leftist Western media to keep hidden from attention everything said by President Putin, it was shocking to see them hiding from attention President Trump revealing that drug overdose deaths in America fell 20% and the murder rate in American plunged to its biggest single-year ever 125-year low during his first year office—is a saving of tens-of-thousands of American lives due to President Trump closing the border and rounding up criminal illegal aliens for deportation, which was accomplished at the same he time shrank the federal work force by about 220,000 workers through November, representing about a 10% cut,
Along with President Trump gaining trillions-of-dollars of investments for America during the first year of his second term, it was also revealed: “The stock market recorded stellar year-end returns when markets closed for the last time in 2025...The S&P 500 finished the year up 16%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq climbed 19%...The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed out 2025 up 13%...The major indexes each notched a record high in 2025, hurtling past tariffs, a government shutdown and fears of a bubble in artificial intelligence”—and the Washington Post article “America’s Financial Markets Are Ready For A Golden Age” proclaimed this week: “We are at a pivotal moment in the evolution of American financial markets...Advances in technology are enabling the creation of entirely new products, platforms and business models, in turn transforming the financial services landscape as we know it”.
To usher in the new Golden Age for America, President Trump signed a record 229 executive orders in the first year of his second administration, and about which Axios observed: “President Trump has spent his first year in office treating Joe Biden's presidency as a historical aberration — not just undoing his policies, but casting his entire term as illegitimate...Presidencies usually fade...But in just one year, Biden's has been reduced to a footnote by a successor committed to dismantling every pillar of Washington's old liberal order”
Along with President Trump dismantling every pillar of Washington’s old liberal order, American foreign policy expert Jason Willick assessed: “American presidents, as Donald Trump is finding out to his satisfaction, have enormous freedom of action in foreign policy — much more so than in the domestic sphere...Even if the courts are coequal with the executive within U.S. borders, the president is in the driver’s seat in the more anarchic territory beyond them...The Trump administration is offering a glimpse of how an ambitious administration can leverage that asymmetry to its advantage...It’s worth thinking about what more brazen attempts might look like”—and the definition of brazen was exampled when President Trump posted the message to socialist European leaders after he departed from meeting with them at the World Economic Forum in Davos-Switzerland last evening: “Maybe we should have put NATO to the test: Invoked Article 5, and forced NATO to come here and protect our Southern Border from further Invasions of Illegal Immigrants, thus freeing up large numbers of Border Patrol Agents for other tasks”.
Recoiling in horror from President Trump and his new Golden Age for America, it saw European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas issuing the dire warning: “The transatlantic relations have definitely taken a big blow over the last week...I think in this one year we have learned that these relations are not the same as they were”—and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen further warned: “Europe must speed up its push for independence...The world has changed permanently...And we need to change with it”.
To insure the Golden Age survives through the 2026 election cycle, President Trump announced last September: “The Republicans are going to do a Midterm Convention in order to show the great things we have done since the Presidential Election of 2024...Time and placee to be determined...Stay tuned, it will be quite the Event, and very exciting!”—and was an announcement echoing the “Contract with America”, which swept the Republicans into Congressional power for the first in 40-years in 1994.
The messaging platform known as the Contract with America, which caused the historic Republican rout of socialist Democrats in the 1994 midterm election, was created by the powerful communications consultancy Maslansky + Partners, whose president Lee Hartley Carter revealed this week:
Tuesday, Jan. 20 marks one
year since Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office. One year of executive orders, foreign policy
shock waves, immigration crackdowns and a governing style that never once tried
to soften its edges.
And for one year, the same
headline has seemed to be everywhere: Trump is unpopular.
Approval
in the low 40s. Disapproval in the mid-50s. The verdict, according to the
polling-industrial complex, is clear.
But one year in, it’s worth
asking a more uncomfortable question: What if the polls aren’t telling us Trump
is failing? What if they’re telling us
he’s delivering — and the country is splitting in response?
Because Trump is not like
other presidents. And that means we’re reading his first year
through the wrong lens.
A First Year Without the Usual Pivot
Most presidents spend their
first year recalibrating. They discover
the limits of power. They soften the
rhetoric. They explain why campaign
promises were harder than expected.
They govern in beige after
campaigning in bold color. Trump never did
that.
He governed exactly as he campaigned — and dared
the country to react.
He promised to get tough on
immigration. He did.
He promised to put
He promised decisive action
over consensus. He delivered it.
You can disagree with the
choices. Many do. But you cannot credibly argue that he
misrepresented who he would be.
And that’s why his polling
looks so strange — and so stable — one year in.
According to national
polling averages, Trump’s job approval sits around 41% to 42%, with disapproval
in the mid-50s. Those numbers dominate
headlines. But buried in the same data
is the statistic that actually defines his first year:
According to a Wall Street Journal poll this week,
92% of voters who supported Trump in 2024 still approve of the job he’s doing.
That is not drift.
That is not erosion.
That is alignment.
Trump didn’t lose
The Polls Still Measure Performance — But Through Identity
Here’s the shift that
explains everything: The polls absolutely reflect what Trump is doing. They just don’t reflect it the way they used
to.
In past presidencies,
performance led to persuasion. A good
economy moved numbers up. A crisis moved
them down. Voters behaved like jurors,
weighing evidence and revising judgment.
Today, voters behave more
like mirrors.
Trump acts. And people don’t reconsider. They react as who they already are.
Supporters see delivery.
Opponents see confirmation.
The same action produces
opposite conclusions — and the polls record the split.
Think of today’s polling like polarized
sunglasses. Everyone sees the same
reality — but one lens turns it red, the other blue. The event isn’t hidden. It’s filtered. Trump’s presidency doesn’t change minds; it
clarifies them.
That’s why approval doesn’t
swing wildly. That’s why scandals don’t
collapse support. That’s why victories
don’t expand it. The country isn’t being
persuaded. It’s being sorted — in response to Trump doing exactly what he said
he would do.
Why His Numbers Barely Move
This is why Trump’s
approval ratings feel so unsatisfying to everyone.
Critics want them to signal
collapse.
Supporters want them to
signal dominance.
Instead, they signal
something more unsettling: stability without consensus.
Recent polling suggests
Trump’s approval has stabilized after early dips — not because nothing is
happening, but because everything is settling into place. The sides are formed. The reactions are predictable. The country has chosen its lenses.
Trump isn’t chasing approval. He’s holding his line.
And that, one year in, is
the defining feature of his presidency.
A Promise Actually Kept
Here is the thing that
makes both sides uncomfortable:
Trump didn’t run as a
unifier and then divide.
He didn’t run as a reformer
and then manage.
He didn’t run as an
outsider and then assimilate.
He ran as a disruptor — and governed as one.
That doesn’t make him
right.
It doesn’t make him wrong.
It makes him consistent.
And consistency, in a
country this divided, is no longer a virtue everyone can tolerate. It’s a provocation.
One Year Later
One year in, Trump’s approval ratings aren’t a
warning sign. They’re a receipt. They show that he delivered exactly what he
promised — and that half the country can’t stand what was delivered.
In an era built on
walk-backs and reversals, Trump did something voters are told never to expect
from politicians: He meant it.
And on the one-year
anniversary of his presidency, the polls aren’t judging his performance.
They’re measuring
In my letter today, and Sister Ciara’s
letter “Trump
Arises As Iron Chancellor Of Entire World” sent to you
yesterday, truth and facts within historical context are presented enabling you
to discern the most important issues of our time so wise decisions can be made—or
put more simply, the Dear Sisters treat you like the intelligent
adults you are instead of like ignorant children the lying leftist propaganda
media believe you are.
Most sadly, though, the lying leftist propaganda media is supported by those who want to keep you ignorant, and they have very deep pockets—while the Dear Sisters have only you to rely on so they can keep telling the truth, so please support them, and the few others like them, which, as you know, is the intelligent thing to do.
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All the best
folks,
Brian
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