HALF-FULL REPORT 06/07/19

Yesterday, June 6, at Omaha Beach in Normandy France on the 75th anniversary of D-Day, President Trump commemorated the sacrifice and heroism of those who fought that day in 1944 to liberate the world from Nazi evil and protect America from it.

To call the President’s speech magnificent is beyond understatement.  It was so good that CNN’s Jim Acosta and MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough had nothing but praise for it.  I could not encourage you more to watch it entire.  It will move you to tears.  It certainly did me.

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This was the culmination of an extraordinary two weeks during which President Trump and First Lady Melania bestrode the world stage with grace, elegance, and class.

A fortnight ago (5/24) POTUS & FLOTUS departed on Air Force One for a state visit to Japan, arriving to be welcomed by the Tokyo Skytree lit up with the Stars & Stripes.

After meetings with key Japanese business leaders, POTUS had a great game of golf with his buddy, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe – who took this selfie:

He and Melania capped off the very successful four-day visit with a state banquet hosted by Japan’s new Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, an extremely rare honor accorded any world leader.

If there is any American the Japanese and the Japanese media are more in love with than The Donald, it’s Melania.  The Tokyo press couldn’t get enough of her and her famous fashion sense.  Here’s a gallery of Melania’s fashion in Japan.

Back in Washington mid-last week but only for four days, POTUS & FLOTUS boarded Air Force One again on Sunday evening (6/02) for London on a Royal (not just State) visit at the personal invitation of Queen Elizabeth II.

On Monday (6/03), the pomp and pageantry of the Queen’s Royal banquet at Buckingham Palace was stunning.  Fox had these photos of the entrance procession, the President with the Queen, Melania with Prince Charles, PM May and Prince William, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin with Princess Kate, Sarah Huckabee Sanders with Prince Michael of Kent (who everyone thinks looks like the World’s Most Interesting Man).

The President delivered a moving tribute and toast to the Queen.  It was a remarkable event.

On Tuesday (6/04), there were meetings with Prime Minister May at Downing Street followed by a cordial press conference, followed by a reciprocal dinner hosted by the First Couple at Winfield House (the US Ambassador’s residence) for Prince Charles and Camilla.

On Wednesday (6/05), there was a commemoration of D-Day at the Portsmouth British Naval Base, the embarkation point for the D-Day landings, where the President sat next to the Queen again.  Attended by a number of European leaders, many eyebrows were raised that among them was Germany’s Chancellor Merkel.

What everyone also noticed was how the President and the Queen so clearly enjoyed each other’s company.

The President then delivered to those attending FDR’s prayer on the eve of D-Day:

As they bid their farewells, the President said to the Queen, “It was a great honor to be with you.”  She smiled and replied, “I hope you come to this country again soon.”

That indeed was the London Daily Mail’s headline (6/05) in proclaiming the First Couple’s visit a glowing success.

They then departed late Wednesday for Shannon, Ireland to stay at the Trump International Golf Resort on the Irish coast at Doonbeg.

The President and First Lady promptly left for Normandy yesterday morning to deliver his extraordinary D-Day speech and spend time with the D-Day veterans attending.  By the end of the day they were back at Doonbeg for a formal dinner with Prime Minister (“Taoiseach”) Leo Varadkar and a number of Irish dignitaries.

Today (6/07)  they got to relax with POTUS playing a round of golf on his own course.  By the time you’re reading this, they will have already arrived back in the White House this evening.

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And amidst all of this – which really does take your breath away – POTUS has the time to put the screws to Mexico for sponsoring and enabling the Illegal Invasion flooding into our country.

It’s really funny to see all the caterwauling against a small tariff predicting a cornucopia of economic disasters – which has now gone crickets with this story yesterday (6/06): Mexico Freezes Human Traffickers’ Bank Accounts, Sends National Guard To Border.

The VSG – Very Stable Genius – wins again.

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Also yesterday (6/06), POTUS responded to Nervous Nancy Pelosi’s telling her fellow Dems on Tuesday (6/04) who were demanding Trump’s impeachment, “I don’t want to see him impeached, I want to see him in prison.”

Fox’s Laura Ingraham interviewed Trump yesterday at Normandy – and when she asked about Pelosi’s “prison” comment, he unloaded:  “Nervous Nancy,” he said, “is a disgrace. I actually don’t think she’s a talented person, I’ve tried to be nice to her because I would have liked to have gotten some deals done.  She’s incapable of doing deals, she’s a nasty, vindictive, horrible person.”

Bullseye.  That’s exactly what she is.  Scott Adams especially liked the new appellation:

Then there’s this observation:

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POTUS’ description of Pelosi being a “nervous wreck” is spot on because she knows how bottomless is the abyss her party has fallen into.  They’ve got nothing but Trump-hatred – no ideas, no morals, no values, nothing but anger.

Their only hope is to get away with importing vast hordes of illegals and commit vast voter fraud with them to win 2020.  They have nothing else.

This week saw some small steps in stemming this, with, on Tuesday (6/04) ICE announcing large-scale deportations “soon.”  Always around the corner, the corner that somehow we never get to turn.

On Wednesday (6/05), one corner did seem to have been turned, with HHS announcing it has stopped – not will stop but a fait accompli – legal service and education funds for illegals and their children.

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Folks, that’s a wrap.  I can’t thank Jack Kelly enough for three superb HFRs while I was in Central Asia.  But I can try – thanks, Jack!