Trump, the Golden Age of America and the Forgotten Man
By John Kass
Jan. 22, 2025
No one who watched President Donald J. Trump’s second inauguration could avoid the infectious optimism of his words.
His speech was a rallying cry for the people who’ve been slapped in the mouth, again and again and again by America’s corrupt bi-partisan ruling establishment that detests them:
The Combine.
It cuts down any weeds standing before it. It chops them fine until there’s nothing left.
America and the world needed to hear those words from Mr. Trump in Washington, and our 47th president delivered.
“The golden age of America begins right now,” Mr. Trump said. “From this moment on, America’s decline is over.”
It was short. It was sweet. And, yes, as an American, I loved it. Perhaps you did, as well. Americans wanted secure borders, less crime in the cities, lower gas prices. It’s really not magical. It’s just simple American common sense. That is what America is all about—common sense.
Much of his speech was polite and direct, but there was no mistaking the president’s tone: Surrounded as he was by Presidents Bush, Obama, and Biden, he made a clear break from their absolute corrosive administrative failures.
Bush and the neo-con Republicans promoted the endless foreign wars that broke the Middle East, sending refugees streaming into Europe. Obama’s Marxist obsession with race and gender over merit led him to champion the racism of DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) that runs counter to the American belief in competence. And Biden, who sat there with wife Jill, was the senile Democrat meat puppet who had just quietly issued a blanket pardon for his corrupt family members, including his bagman brother James and others who pocketed millions in foreign cash.
Yet in President Trump’s brief address there was none of the seething anger of former adviser Steve Bannon that helped sour the country against Trump when he first took office the last time.
It was a call of hope for those of us who stopped looking to Washington for anything resembling hope.
But it was also a clear repudiation of the bi-partisan Combine that has for decades loathed forgotten Americans, the people that played by the rules and served their nation and their communities with loyalty and honor.
Think of Mitch McConnel making his fortune through China shipping connections. Think of Nancy Pelosi killing the stock market. The Combine Way is the Washington Way, is the Delaware Way. And only suckers beef.
Theirs is not a partisan arrangement. It is the establishment prerogative. It is the Deep State. It hates American freedom and liberty. It hates what it can’t control. It protects its own and they hate us and they hate Trump.
The forgotten are the people who elected Trump twice, making him the 45th and 47th president.
“For many years, a radical and corrupt establishment has extracted power and wealth from our citizens, while the pillars of our society lay broken and seemingly in complete disrepair,” said President Trump.
Yes.
But he is also correct that the federal government has too often failed Americans in its essential job:
To provide for public safety and protecting the border and providing for basic services.
One of those expectations—as written down in our own sacred Bill of Rights—is our freedom of speech:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Journalists once believed this as a creed. It was a given. It was our secular civic religion at the papers where I worked, especially the last one that capitulated to the power-drunk Jacobin mob and essentially killed itself.
But as we know now, all of that sacred obligation changed once Biden and Obama, and the rest of the Deep State buccaneers used federal power to deny this freedom of speech to the forgotten Americans. It was another of their ways of leveraging fear for political power. Biden used it to suppress the news to protect their power, including legitimate news about his crooked son Hunter that he and other Democrats wanted to snuff out before the 2016 election. And left wing corporate media helped.
As we learned from sworn testimony and evidence in court, the Biden White House also used its leverage to stifle critics on social media. Democrats have cemented themselves in the public mind as enemies of public discussion.
Now though, the cancel culture is in retreat and the people reach out to Trump. That’s common sense too. They feel pain. And they don’t like being mocked by soft-handed men in suits. Somebody might write a song.
What Americans find particularly insufferable is ideological stupidity: like the left’s repeated and obnoxious insistence that there America is not only the land of unicorns and rainbows, it’s also the land of many genders.
Happily, he knocked that one down within minutes with one of his many executive actions designed to return to normalcy.
“As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female,” Trump said during his inaugural address Monday, taking an early step to fulfill one of his political campaign promises.
Ye gods!!!! Only two genders?
Titled “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” the order says that “sexes that are not changeable, and they are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.”
Exactly.
The federal government will also shift from using the term “gender” to “sex,” and that sex is “an individual’s immutable biological classification,” Trump administration officials later told reporters.
Naturally, the left lost their minds, mouths frothing on CNN and MSNBC. They’re absolutely crazy. It is stupefying to have to say this, but we’ve all seen Democrats so terrified and confused about gender that Supreme Court Justice Katanji Brown Jackson was unable to answer a simple question about women.
It is amazing, said the writer David Marcus on Fox News. I like his writing. I find him reasonable and clear-thinking
“It truly is,” said the writer David Marcus in an interview on Fox News. “we have a sitting Supreme Court justice who refused to say that very thing on the grounds that she is not a biologist. It was always madness.
“But it’s good that Trump is taking such a strong tack on this, for a very long time I think conservatives thought there were some accommodations that could be made at least as far as adults were concerned, that we could deal with prisons and shelters and still let people pretend to be a gender that they’re not. I think Trump drew a line in the sand there and said no, this is actually make-believe, and the government is not going to play pretend anymore.”
For years before Trump, and recently as Biden the Obama meat puppet was installed in the White House, America’s middle-class was abused, mocked, scourged and jailed. Those days are now gone. Trump will not pretend. He isn’t going to play make-believe as America in Trump’s restoration.
We are a nation that reaches for common sense, as we enter the new Golden Age.
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Well-said, John….as always. Seeing the pretzel twists some of the networks are contortioning themselves into? Hilarious! Forget what the man SAID in his address, let’s focus on “Is he REALLY the President? His hand was NOT on the Bible!” And the other question to be answered: “Was that REALLY Melania? Why did she wear the hat so we couldn’t see her whole face? Maybe she didn’t really want to be there!”
The clarity with which you captured the Eagle-eye view of the day was not part of the offering on some of the networks. They’re working hard to breathe their last and most don’t realize it’s their own foot on their neck.
Bravissimo, John!!!! Perhaps I’ll say more when I’ve had coffee, and can spell adequately, but bravissimo!!!!
Lead, follow, or get out of the way. “…what can you do for your country.” How far the Democratic Party has fallen and the RINOs have been captured. Next year we will celebrate our countries founding 250 years ago and what a party its going to be. “A Republic, if you can keep it.” Well Ben we’re still hanging on and “We’re Going To Mars Baby !!”. Keep up the righteous fight John they’re greasing up the Combine in the machine shed and you need to keep shining your lantern on it.
Stay Strong Patriots !!
Oh my, it’s just remarkable. Common sense is breaking out like a respiratory virus, please let’s keep it up
I like how you say it’s bipartisan making millions off your job in Congress. A political whore is political whore no matter which party. They are all in it for themselves. Locally you left out 10th Cong district US House rep Brad Schneider who has become the 24th most wealthy member of House. He has done this by sitting on various health committees feeding info to his wife who then buys and sells health stocks on insider information. I will attempt to run against him in 2026.
Finally, one must remember, he is a lame duck. If Dems delay for 2 years, Trump is toast. He’s already doing stupid things like saying birth right citizenship is now not allowed. Sorry it’s written law. It will be struck down big time. You must pass a law to change that. And it doesn’t take much for a GOPer to vote Dem on certain issues. The GOP has very slim margins.
As far as queers and transgenitals (a phrase i coined, soon to be trademarked) are concerned, I think Sam Kinnison the former preacher turned foul mouthed screaming comedian said about them is best: ‘they do things that make even Jesus puke’.
John Kass deserves credit for his significant role in ushering in this Golden Age. No one worked more couragesously than John Kass to help the voices of common sense during the Wilderness Years, now in the rear view mirror. God Bless America!
Well stated. I think you captured the central theme as largely a need to de-Obama this government.
It has had 12 years to metastasize, and was lawlessly able to survive Trump’s four year intervention. God grant us the eradication of it this time.
Very well done as always, Mr. Kass, and your Greek ancestors are once again proud of you. I sincerely hope that our President is permitted to go forward on many of his pledges, but I have no doubt that the (sic) “media” and “hollywood glitterati” will do everything they can to stop him. Freedom of Speech is an interesting topic that used to exist in this country, but only seems to exist nowadays when the person speaking agrees with the people from the two aforementioned entities.
Freedom of Speech is critical and shouldn’t be minimized. If it weren’t for Freedom of Speech, Black people would still be (literally) riding in the back of the bus, if it weren’t for Freedom of Speech, we’d probably still be involved in the Vietnam War. Sometimes the minimization of this important part of what America is might seem minimal and unimportant, but it isn’t. Threatening someone for simply stating that they don’t believe some of the nonsense that is being spewed isn’t minimal or unimportant, it is dangerous. Many of us recognize that danger, and some of us, like you, have guts enough to say it publicly. Please keep it up, we desperately need it.
I’ve read or heard this in many places that last two days, but nowhere with such concise clarity! It sums up the feelings of so many millions; one of your best!
The fight is just beginning. The leftists need to be shamed, hammered down so deeply that they can never rise again. What fool wants to return to those days of silly madness? No mercy.
Great column John. I’m looking forward to President Trump’s term with optimism like never before after watching Biden/Obama destroy our Country and it’s fundamental values.
Reading your article makes me feel all giddy, like that warm feeling on Christmas morning when you’re at the tree about to open your presents.
Common sense. Another warm, sensible feeling washes over everyone when they get soaked in common sense. If only a mayor in the city of Chicago could guide with common sense. Probably asking a lot, but we can all dream. #47 almost makes me want to run for mayor just to be able to spread some of the common sense dust amongst the good citizens of Chicago.
God bless President Trump, may he govern with common sense and a quiet being and may his actions create an overwhelming abundance of good fortune for the U S of A.
Well said John. Common Sense is the key phrase. Thomas Paine published his piece in 1776 and it was the basis of a government of the people, not the aristocracy.
Trump is making strides but the real progress that is still needed is an election system that restores the people to power. Given the $16b spent on politics just last year and the power of the lobbyists and interest groups that supply most of that funding, we need a system that counters that power and makes money and media subordinate to the will of the people.
That will happen when Congress is elected using tiny districts where money and media is not needed to gain office. http://www.hearthepeople.org.
Then, we can get an education system not owned by the teachers unions; a health care system utilizing free market ideas not controlled by huge insurers, the governemnt and health care companies; plentiful energy that is affordable and housing supply that brings down costs.
Lobbyists and interest groups work against these ideas and they need to be disempowered.
Gen: 1:27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Pretty simple.
Thanks again, John. We shouldn’t have to say “thank you” to people for loving our country, but the fear and disgust over what the Combine was doing vs those who stood for the little people warrants it.
Monday was one of the best days of my life. President Trump took control and will work hard for all of America for the next four years. Already he is cleaning house.
It is such a hopeful time in our country, and I can’t wait to see what he accomplishes.
I like how you say it’s bipartisan making millions off your job in Congress. A political whore is political whore no matter which party. They are all in it for themselves. Locally you left out 10th Cong district US House rep Brad Schneider who has become the 24th most wealthy member of House. He has done this by sitting on various health committees feeding info to his wife who then buys and sells health stocks on insider information. I will attempt to run against him in 2026.
Finally, one must remember, he is a lame duck. If Dems delay for 2 years, Trump is toast. He’s already doing stupid things like saying birth right citizenship is now not allowed. Sorry it’s written law. It will be struck down big time. You must pass a law to change that. And it doesn’t take much for a GOPer to vote Dem on certain issues. The GOP has very slim margins.
As far as queers and transgenitals (a phrase i coined, soon to be trademarked) are concerned, I think Sam Kinnison the former preacher turned foul mouthed screaming comedian said about them is best: ‘they do things that make even Jesus puke’.
” Soft handed men in suits ”
What a great analogy, John !
However, you left out one word……Spineless.
You will know it is truly the death of Wokeness when ABC cancels shitshow “The View”. No more of these shrieking lying slanderous Harpies. Once the victims of their bullshit start hitting them with lawsuits AND collecting we’ll see the last nails pounded in their coffin. Can’t happen soon enough. I don’t watch any ABC, NBC or CBS programming. Football lost me with the kneeling and obnoxious music they play in between plays. If its not someone babbling over a music track, its some foreign language babble trying to sell me a cell phone. The political ads they authorized during this election also cemented their legacy of trash. Hopefully Trump and others start hitting them with lawsuits…
I am concerned that Trump will act “wildly” – such as violating the law regarding offspring from illegals born here being citizens. He needs to be careful, as his margin in congress is small. He needs to pick his battles carefully, because in 2 years, he could be “silenced” in congress. Great column as usual, John. Our Greek ancestors would be proud for sure! 🙂
Γιάννη,
I, too, feel as if a fog has lifted from my head, and can finally see clearly. Your words have sustained us all during the dark ages of Obama-ism and Biden-ism! The blinders have been shed and we can all thank God for this new beginning of the age of common sense! Onward and upward! Εις ανώτερα!!
“It hates American freedom and liberty. It hates what it can’t control.” “It”. Indeed. It’s not human, its a thing. This is also why my ancestors from Virginia seceded. I have never been happier, even though no one will realize, that we just fought the Civil War all over again, and won.
We won, if the American People have won back the political power the Founders saw as ours, and ours alone. One man may help us course correct, one great win. Much effort still remains for our Republic to start setting the best example it can, for the rest of the world.
“Men with soft hands” – what American Indians call “Stick People” – so many stick people
Barbara Richardson,…. you’ve stated it so perfectly. How I,….along with millions of others, now feel at this time in American history. Living into a true turning point. Thank you!