PRESIDENT TRUMP’S ADDRESS TO THE UNITED NATIONS
[This is the full text of the President’s historic speech to the UN General Assembly yesterday 9/19. Full video follows, TTP considers this the single greatest speech ever given by a world leader to the General Assembly in the history of the United Nations, and the single greatest speech delivered by an American President in the last 30 years.]
Mr. Secretary General, Mr. President, world leaders, and distinguished delegates: Welcome to New York. It is a profound honor to stand here in my home city, as a representative of the American people, to address the people of the world.
For more than 70 years, in times of war and peace, the leaders of nations, movements, and religions have stood before this assembly. Like them, I intend to address some of the very serious threats before us today but also the enormous potential waiting to be unleashed.
We live in a time of extraordinary opportunity. Breakthroughs in science, technology, and medicine are curing illnesses and solving problems that prior generations thought impossible to solve.
But each day also brings news of growing dangers that threaten everything we cherish and value. Terrorists and extremists have gathered strength and spread to every region of the planet. Rogue regimes represented in this body not only support terrorists but threaten other nations and their own people with the most destructive weapons known to humanity.
To put it simply, we meet at a time of both of immense promise and great peril. It is entirely up to us whether we lift the world to new heights, or let it fall into a valley of disrepair.
Join the forum discussion on this postTHE ART OF THE PRESIDENT’S DEALS
Relax. Calm yourselves. Things are going lots better than President Trump’s enemies – and some who claim to be his friends – say they are.
Read and watch President Trump’s speech to the UN General Assembly yesterday (9/19), up on To The Point today. No president before him has told so many truths so directly to pompous jerks who needed to hear them. This president didn’t kiss ass. He kicked it.
His UN speech is the clearest statement of MAGA Mr. Trump has yet made. This is not a president who has “flipped” to Democrats, or is being bamboozled by them.
Nor is this a president who is intimidated by, or being drugged by “globalists” on the White House staff.
This is a president who is clearly in charge, who knows what he wants to do, is doing it.
Mr. Trump revels in deal making, which involves give and take. The key to success is to give up what is unimportant to you to get things you really want.
A REQUEST FOR PATIENCE
If Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller were wearing waders and carrying a rod and reel, he couldn’t signal more clearly he’s on a fishing expedition. Every lawyer on his staff contributed to Dems. He’s said to be looking into things that have nothing to do with the election, employing Gestapo tactics.
Meanwhile, Robert Wray was confirmed as FBI director Aug. 1. I haven’t heard a peep from him since. Perhaps he’s still hanging pictures in his office, finding his way to the rest room and the cafeteria. I’m pretty sure he’s doing something. But I’ve no idea what it is.
Many conservatives want Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired, because he hasn’t indicted Hillary or fired Mueller yet. I think haven’t figured out the Trump-Sessions feud was theater; that the president wouldn’t have gone through that charade without some purpose in mind.
Which is why this is a request for patience.
VOTER FRAUD – MEDIA FRAUD
If you have no idea what happened at the second meeting of President Donald Trump’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in New Hampshire on Sept. 12, I’m not surprised.
Though a horde of reporters attended the meeting, almost all of the media stories that emerged from it simply repeated the progressive left’s mantra that the commission is a “sham.”
Almost no one covered the substantive and very concerning testimony of 10 expert witnesses on the problems that exist in our voter registration and election system.
The witnesses included academics, election lawyers, state election officials, data analysts, software experts, and computer scientists.
Americans need an alternative to the mainstream media. But this can't be done alone.
The existing and potential problems they exposed would give any American with any common sense and any concern for our democratic process cause for alarm.
PRUDENCE AND HURRICANES
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma were as powerful as the big South Florida hurricanes of 1926, 1928, and 1935, but the death toll was very small compared to the earlier hurricanes in the area, even though the population is now more than 10 times the size.
The Great Galveston hurricane of 1900 is estimated to have cost 6,000 to 12,000 lives. The hurricanes that have hit the U.S. in the last 50 years have resulted in relatively few lives lost, with the exception of Hurricane Katrina where an estimated 1,833 died.
The reason so few people die now is the better forecasting, the development of weather satellites, and much better infrastructure. The Katrina disaster was not the fault of the weather forecasters but the fault of state and local government leaders.
Since the end of the last ice age about 8,000 years ago, sea levels have been slowly rising at about 1/8 of an inch or 0.3 centimeters per year (i.e., a foot every 120 years). The rise in sea levels has been slow enough that it has been easy for mankind to adapt. Most buildings and infrastructure are rebuilt every 30 to 70 years, so building the new structures higher is done as a matter of course.
Despite the alarmism coming from some, there is no evidence that sea levels are rising faster than the historic rate – nor has the Arctic ice cap melted, nor has the Earth’s temperature risen at the rate forecasted by virtually all of the major climate models.
TOPLESS CAR WASHES TO SUPPORT THE POLICE IS WHAT AMERICA IS ALL ABOUT
Strippers and police joined forces last Saturday (9/16) in California to raise money for two wounded police officers.
Two police officers were wounded in a gun battle at a marijuana farm northeast of Sacramento, and City Limits Showgirls decided the best response was to get naked and wash cars for donations, according to The Los Angeles Times. The LA Times reported”
“The shirtless carwash at City Limits Showgirls in Marysville on Saturday raised $2,560, the strip club wrote on Facebook. A long line of cars snaked outside the fundraiser, which was held in a tented parking lot.
The charity event was held for Yuba County sheriff’s Deputies Phillip Bronson and Andrew Everhart, who were shot multiple times on Aug. 1 at a Rastafarian church’s marijuana farm in Oregon House, a small community northeast of Sacramento.”
The strip club’s Facebook page is filled with thankful comments.“Thank you for your Community spirit,” one woman posted. “Great job Ladies.”Ladies and gentlemen, this is what America is all about. Two police officers are wounded in the line of duty and strippers rush to the rescue.
“I’m a retired cop,” a man wrote. “I thank you for putting [forth] the effort to help. Your hearts are golden.”
I want to live in a nation where everybody is able to come together during tough times and lend a helping hand – strippers included.
That’s the spirit of unity that beat the Nazis and the Japanese. Topless car wash fundraisers is what separates us from the savages in ISIS. We have the freedom to support the police however we choose, even if it means that topless women are washing cars.
It’s also a genius way for men, who might not otherwise, donate some money to a great cause. A man’s wife might be anti-strip club, but is she really going to be against raising money for wounded police officers?
Props to these great women who joined forces to aid these police officers. God bless this country.
David Hookstead is a reporter for The Daily Caller.
HALF-FULL REPORT 09/15/17
Candidate Trump’s “No Amnesty” pledge August 31, 2016
I always look forward to early Friday mornings, ready to roll with the HFR. Yet it’s called the Half-Full Report to avoid being Pollyannic – and let’s face it, Pollyanna is in the Intensive Care ward this week hoping she won’t be on life support soon.
This has been building for some time – a series of unforced errors accumulating towards disaster. And now it has come to this: #AmnestyDon is the new hot Twitter hashtag; Leftists, Never-Trumpers Gloat over MAGA Voters’ DACA Dismay is the headline this morning, and people are burning their MAGA hats.
This is true tragedy, a self-inflicted one of Greek Mythology proportions. President Trump has dug himself into a deep hole, and it’s not just his DACA dance with Chuck and Nancy.
Yes, that’s pretty glass-emptying. Yet, actually, lots of cool stuff happened this week. So let’s get to it.
9/11 AND THE RELIGION OF SLAVERY
Stefan The Great defeating the Ottoman Moslems January 10, 1475
Zagreb, Croatia. I have just completed my expedition through Hidden Eastern Europe, primarily through much of the Balkans. It has been a historical lesson of sobering immensity.
Today is the 16th anniversary of the most evil attack on America in our history. More morally evil than Pearl Harbor, which was an act of war targeting US military personnel (of the 2403 deaths, 68 were civilians). 9/11, by contrast specifically targeted civilians on purpose. 2,977 innocent human beings were slaughtered by Moslem terrorists, of whom 2,508 were civilians.
The Wikipedia entry on 9/11 casualties states: “The attacks of September 11, 2001, were the deadliest terrorist act in world history.”
If you click on that latter link, up will come a list of 173 of the worst terrorist attacks, starting with 9/11. Scroll down the list and you’ll be overwhelmed at how many are attributed to “Islamic extremism” – 120 out of 173.
The Moslem Atrocity of 9/11 is a trauma America will never forget and never forgive its perpetrators. What Americans should also never forget is its context. Here in the Balkans is where you learn that context in spades.
We suffered one horrific attack of Islamic barbarism. What would it be like to suffer an unending series of slaughters and enslavements for century after century, for four or five hundred years?
PRESIDENT TRUMP’S ADDRESS TODAY ON 9/11
The President and First Lady conducted a Moment of Silence at the White House, then the President delivered this address at the Pentagon this morning. Videos of each, full text follows.
HOW 9/11 MADE ME WHAT I AM
Each generation is born into history out of a moment of crisis. We are defined by our struggles. By the wars we fight and do not fight. On a Tuesday morning in September 16 years ago, my generation was born into history.
Some of us were born into it better than others. On September 11, some of us opened our eyes. Others closed them as hard as they could.
That Tuesday irrevocably divided my generation. Some joined the military, the police or became analysts. Others turned left-wing activists, volunteered as lawyers for terrorists or converted to Islam.
Everything I needed to know about Islam, I learned on September 11. The details of the theology came later. I couldn’t quote the Koran while the sirens were wailing. But I learned the essential truth. And so did you.