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Yesterday’s entry focused entirely on the new POTUS’s meeting the press head-on on Thursday, dealing quite handily with an obviously hostile group of reporters. The gist of the meeting can be grasped in the short interchange that follows:

Trump told reporters: “The press has become so dishonest that if we don’t talk about it we are doing a tremendous disservice to American people. 

“The media is trying to attack our administration because they know we are following through on pledges that we made, and they’re not happy about it, for whatever reason,” he added. “I turn on the news and I see stories of chaos. And yet it is the exact opposite. The administration is running like a fine-tuned machine.” 

According to People's Stephanie Petit via yahoo.com: “At one point in his lengthy address, Trump told the room full of reporters, “I’m not ranting and raving. I’m just telling you you’re dishonest people.” 

“CNN’s Jake Tapper called the press conference “unhinged” and “wild.” 

Then last night on Fox News “Special Report with Bret Baier,” the Weekly Standard’s Steve Hayes said that “President Trump’s visit to a Boeing assembly plant in North Charleston, SC was a successful stop that highlighted the president’s jobs agenda…unlike the press conference that Trump used to assail the media a day earlier.”   

Hayes went on to opine that the Boeing event was quite a good one for Trump. “I think this is the kind of event that, if you ask Republicans on Capitol Hill, they'd say, 'Please, more of this, and a lot less of what we saw from the president yesterday,’” Hayes said. “If you look at this presidency almost a month in, the problem is, the sideshows are distracting from the agenda. And there’s no question about that.” 

“Hayes went on to cite Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s assertion that Trump’s approval rating would be up to 15 points higher if he focused more on the policy ideas that he ran on to get elected and less on “the sideshows.” 

Having seen Hayes quite often, feeling in the past that he was unusually insightful and well-versed, after reading his critique of Trump it was felt that some background research was called for. That’s because it seemed he didn’t fully comprehend Trump’s motive, objective or “style” in his interchange with MSM representatives at all.    

According to Wikipedia, “Hayes is a journalist. born in 1970 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. He graduated from DePauw University, where he was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. He went on to study journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

“His work has appeared in the New York Post, Washington Times, Salon.com, National Review, and Reason. He has been a commentator on CNN, The McLaughlin Group, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, CNBC, and C-SPAN. 

Hayes is the author of three books. His first book, The Connection: How al Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein has Endangered America, was published in 2004. It postulated an operational relationship between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and an al-Qaeda terrorist organization. His major source was a leaked memo from Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith to the U.S. Congress on 27 October 2003. His other books were biographies of Paul Wolfowitz and Dick Cheney.” 

So, here we have what in the world of sports would be called a “couch potato.” Much like media analysts who’ve never played any of the sports they spout about as if professionals themselves. In Hayes case, he’s never been in the trench himself, has never run for office, certainly never been elected, never built or run a business nor held a real job. Yet, he can pontificate, and second-guess, on the actions of a billionaire businessman who managed to get himself elected President of the United States of America. 

Hayes having spent so  much time in DC, surrounded by typical politicians is likely also confused by the fact the Trump is a capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time. A fete most politicos would find beyond their intellectual and physical capabilities. 

However, Trump can not only accomplish the feat, he knows precisely where and when to do it.

That capability was demonstrated yesterday, when he tried to address the press on what his administration has accomplished to date. However, they refused to acknowledge progress, preferring to dwell on disparaging, demeaning and spiteful rumor instead. 
     
Yet, while in office a mere four weeks, following 10 years of Democrat caused stagnation, as mentioned here yesterday, Trump’s list of progress includes:

Withdrawing from “the job killing disaster” known as Trans-Pacific Partnership” and making bilateral “one-on-one-deals,” instead. 

Elimination of regulations undermining manufacturing. 

A call for expedited approval of the permits needed for infrastructure which means plants, equipment, roads, bridges and factories. 

Imposing a hiring freeze on nonessential federal workers and a temporary moratorium on new federal regulations. 

A “game-changing new rule” that says, “For each one new regulation, two old regulations must be eliminated.” 

Creation of a task force for reducing violent crime, including the horrendous situation in inner cities, such as Chicago in particular. 

The Departments of Homeland Security and Justice to coordinate on a plan to destroy criminal cartels coming into the country with drugs.  

The most substantial border security measures in a generation and beginning the promised wall on the southern border. 

A crackdown on sanctuary cities that refuse to comply with federal law and that harbor criminal aliens, and an end to the policy of catch-and-release on the border. 

A nationwide effort to remove criminal aliens, gang members, drug dealers, and others posing a threat to public safety. 

A new office in Homeland Security dedicated to American victims of illegal immigrant violence.
Taking decisive action to keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the country. 

Extreme vetting to be put in place, and already being done in many locations. 

A new and very comprehensive order to protect people will be done sometime next week toward the beginning or middle, at the latest.  

Steps to begin construction of the Keystone pipeline and Dakota Access pipelines 

Putting measures in place to require American steel for American pipelines

Despite the impressive steps taken by his new administration to date, Trump understands clearly that MSM hostility towards him is such that in settings such as press conferences, the negative will always supersede, prevailing over accomplishment.  

And that's why he’s following his Thursday confrontation with the press with a rally in Florida this afternoon. Which is where he’ll interface with the throngs that put him in office in the first place.

According to Dave Berman @floridatoday.com, the president will appear at a rally that “begins at 5 p.m today in the AeroMod International hangar at Orlando Melbourne International Airport. Doors will open at 3 p.m.” 

“On Sept. 27, Trump made a campaign speech at the same AeroMod International hangar. Melbourne Police Chief Steve Mimbs estimated the audience was about 8,500 inside the hangar. Thousands more people who wanted to attend could not get inside because of building capacity limits. 


Volusia County Republican Party Chairman Tony Ledbetter said he is "excited about what the president is doing — communicating directly with the American people" through rallies like this. 

Which means that if Steve Hayes, or those in the MSM, believe they can offset how Middle-Americans feel about Donald Trump, they need to come down from their lofty perches and do a little real research for once.  

Because while they’re delivering their self-proclaimed wisdom on a game they've never played themselves, a suited-up professional expert is eating their proverbial lunches. Supported by 55% of voters according to the last Rasmussen Reports daily tracking poll.  

That's it for today folks. 

Adios