Day: July 15, 2025

What President Donald Trump has achieved over the past three weeks, most presidents could only dream of for an entire term. Trump has revitalized military recruitment, turned the armed forces from “fat” to “fit,” reshaped America’s foreign alliances, and delivered bold results that no one expected—and many actively warned against. Victor Davis Hanson breaks down why, in the face of naysayers and “experts” claiming it couldn’t be done, this is even more of a momentous feat on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” “ The economy did not crash or crater. Wall Street is at all-time high. Stock prices, job growth, unexpectedly—that’s a word you have to use because the Left always says they’re going to get very angry. The angry Left. And they’re very angry and they say, ‘It’s not going to work.’ And then they have to say, ‘Well, it worked.’” “ The idea that all of their Ph.D.s, all of the letters after their names, all of their ZIP codes, all of their prestige meant nothing. That here we have a billionaire builder from New York, with a Queens accent, who’s transactional. He was able to create a revolutionary change in culture, in social life, in economics, on foreign policy, and on border security. And we can see the fruits of that in just three weeks, contrary to what everybody told us. It’s startling. It’s embarrassing for them.”