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While the mainstream media continues its focus on meaningless drivel, the new POTUS is seeing the fruits of fulfilled campaign promises develop again. This time regarding a major turnaround in crude oil availability, permitting the nation to arise from under the financial strains caused by being victim to the pricing controls of OPEC, among other foreign sources.   

On Thursday, Ivana Kottasová wrote @money.cnn.com: “OPEC has asked a favor of other major producers: Please stop pumping so much and help us balance the market.”

The plea came as a result of the cartel's closely-watched monthly report, “which found that global markets are still suffering from too much supply.”

While the report said that balancing the market would "require the collective efforts of all oil producers," it went on to claim that it should be done "not only for the benefit of the individual countries, but also for the general prosperity of the world economy."

Farther along the OPEC report said that one producer in particular is to blame: “The U.S., where shale producers have continued to ramp up their drilling despite lower crude prices.

“The increased production has undermined OPEC's efforts to keep prices between $50 and $60 per barrel.” 

Although OPEC and allied producers agreed in November to slash production, which served for a while: “Now, the magic appears to be wearing off.” 

It’s also possible that the agreement could be extended far beyond its original mid-year deadline, [b]ut “that won't help OPEC solve its American problem. The U.S. did not join its agreement, and the number of rigs in operation there has doubled over the past year.” 

Tom Pugh, commodities economist at Capital Economics, said last week: "I think [OPEC] are now acutely aware that they don't have the kind of influence they used to have 10 years ago, and that shale is now the swing producer in the market." 

Thus, in only six months the POTUS has been able to remove another drain on the public’s dollars, making the funds available to support the nation’s own economy. Which in turn will grow the GDP, increase hiring as a result, and as in the Reagan years where "a rising tide lifted all boats.” 

According to Wikipedia, the rising tide theory is “associated with the idea that improvements in the general economy will benefit all participants in that economy, and that economic policy, particularly government economic policy, should therefore focus on the general macroeconomic environment first and foremost.”   

On another aspect of the POTUS’s progress, examples of his “style” and methodology became apparent again yesterday in an article by Andy Borowitz @newyorker.com. The author is the New York Times best-selling author of “The 50 Funniest American Writers,” and a comedian who has written for The New Yorker since 1998. 

It’s been contended often here, that one of the POTUS’s fortes is to intentionally utter a statement, fire off a tweet or otherwise incite the mainstream media and those on the left into wasting their time in the belief that they’ve caught him in a lie, a major error or some other kind of miscue that will cost him his job.     

Yet, while they’re all exhausting themselves on fruitless efforts to make their cases against him, he has his administration working diligently to fulfill campaign promises. At the moment those include the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, repealing and replacing Obamacare in the House, withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, cutting Illegal border crossings by 70%, working toward a travel ban directed at Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, Syria and Yemen, plus other efforts to “drain the swamp.”  

And that’s why Mr. Borowitz article struck home because it referred to an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, where Trump boasted that, if he is impeached, “the television ratings will be higher than those of any other impeachment in history.” 

“Everywhere I go, people tell me that if I am impeached, they’re going to watch it,” he said. “The ratings are going to be through the roof.” 

“He said that he expected his impeachment ratings to be “many, many times” the size of the audience for Bill Clinton’s impeachment, in 1998. 

“It’s not even going to be close,” Trump said. “The ratings for Bill Clinton’s impeachment were a joke.” 

“Asked about the recent impeachment of the former South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Trump said, “Did anyone even watch that one? That was Korea. Nobody cares.” 

“As for the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, he said, “I didn’t hear about that one. I don’t follow Brazil. I like Argentina. I saw ‘Evita’ many, many times. Andrew Lloyd Webber did a great job. Millions and millions of people loved it. But that was a Broadway show, not an impeachment.” 

And then, in confirmation of his intimate knowledge of how every aspect of the medias game is played: “Even though he anticipates “just terrific” ratings for his impeachment, Trump said that he did not expect the media to provide an honest accounting of his audience size. 

“They’re going to lie and say that a lot of people who watched my impeachment didn’t watch, and that’s going to be very bad and unfair, but it’s not going to change the fact that my impeachment will be a great impeachment, a really beautiful impeachment,” he said. 

Thus, this is a case where if the MSM and the Dems' were truly smart they’d help themselves a great deal by reading the Holt interview very slowly to learn from it. Because in the piece Trump's showing them he not only grasps every iota of the Dem playbook, he’s using to make abject fools of them.  

Which also serves to underline a major premise of today’s entry. Whereas if Trump can use his own impeachment to demonstrate his acute awareness of what goes on around him, it’s a sure bet he’s not only setting his opposition up in more ways than they’ll ever figure out, he’s getting a good laugh out of it.  

That’s it for today folks. 

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