[New York Post] Listening to President Trump on Friday, I was reminded of Barry Goldwater’s 1964 Cow Palace speech when he accepted the Republican nomination. "My God," someone said. "He’s going to run as Goldwater!" And so it was last Friday. Unlike Goldwater, Trump won the election, but apart from that he’s going to govern as Trump.And he didn’t waste any time. After his speech, and before the customary lunch with members of Congress, Trump sat down and signed some executive orders to undo some of President Barack Obama’s executive orders. One executive order gives the Health and Human Services Department the power to waive ObamaCare’s individual mandate requiring everyone to buy insurance.
Obama boasted that he had a pen, but Trump has an eraser.
In his speeches, Trump has taken advice from a variety of people, but this one was pure Trump, a distillation of all the things he’s been saying throughout the campaign, in formal speeches and unrehearsed moments. It was the man, himself, and the speech is about the country we’ll be living in the next four years. Or maybe eight.
When an outsider comes to Washington, as a president or congressman, the mainstream media waits expectantly for him to "grow on the job." Which means going native, adopting all the values of DC and its insiders. What Trump told us is that that’s not going to happen with him. So no surprise outgoing CIA Director John Brennan took a parting shot at Trump by calling the president "despicable" -- when in reality, of course, the despicable ones are those who claim to be "resisting" the duly elected president.