Trump’s SOTU Unleashes America’s Golden Age of Growth

President Trump delivered a captivating, growthier, optimistic, epic State of the Union speech last night. It was a real humdinger.It went a long time, but as I watched it, the length didn’t really bother me. Probably because the messaging was so strong, and clear, and patriotic.And the whole architecture of that speech, it seemed to me, was that America is back. That this was a comeback for the ages, piloted by Donald J. Trump’s own political comeback.And that this national comeback was driven by what probably is the greatest political comeback of all time from Mr. Trump. That is at least in American history. We’ve never seen anything like it. America today is prosperous. It is safe. It’s the most globally powerful and dominant country in the world. None of this was true a little more than a year ago.America is not perfect, as Mr. Trump has noted, there is more work to do, but his achievements on the economy, on closing the border, on foreign policy, on peace through strength, have been remarkable.Interestingly, a snap poll before the speech from CNN of all places, showed 54 percent of the voters like the direction of the country. That by itself is pretty spiffy, but after the speech that number grew to 64 percent.Anyway, for me, the key point is, Mr. Trump is saving the economy. All of a sudden wages are rising faster than prices.In fact, because of his policies of tax cuts and deregulation and energy and trade, wages are going up and prices actually coming down in many key household and grocery areas. People said it couldn’t be done, but it is being done.Of course, the Democrats are in denial about so much of this. With only a few exceptions, they refused to stand up and applaud bravery or patriotism last night. That’s a pity.As the president was honoring so many of our military heroes and expressing joy in our gold medal hockey teams, Dems still couldn’t find their way to stand up and applaud, with a few minor exceptions.Anyway, topics today that should be bipartisan never seem to be bipartisan anymore, and that is a pity, but Mr. Trump was gracious.As I said, he shook the hands of a number of Supreme Court justices when he came in. They have voted against his tariffs. And he almost begged Democrats to join him in applause a number of times, but they wouldn’t do it, no matter what the topic.His speech last night was so compelling, and yet so gracious. Not only is he convincing the majority of voters of his own good works, I think he’s convincing Republicans to stay the course. Leaders like Mike Johnson and John Thune have told me in just the last 24 hours on this show that they intend to do just that, to stay the course.In fact, I sat down with Mr. Trump two weeks ago and he told me that he and his team needed to work harder to get the word out. Well, last night he got the word out. Even better, he made the sale. I give it an A++.The Save America Citizenship ID test on voting; ending sanctuary cities; maybe another reconciliation bill. The GOP is probably more united today than ever before. It’s Mr. Trump’s GOP. It’s his ideas. It’s his execution. It’s his management. It’s his communication. At the end of his brilliant speech last night he talked about faith in God and faith in America. Take a listen to this:“And when God needs a nation to work his miracles, he knows exactly who to ask. There is no challenge Americans cannot overcome, no frontier too vast for us to conquer, no dream too bold for us to chase, no horizon too distant for us to claim. The Golden Age of America is upon us. The revolution that began in 1776 has not ended. It still continues because the flame of liberty and independence still burns in the heart of every American patriot. And our future will be bigger, better, brighter, bolder, and more glorious than ever before.”All right, of course, while he’s celebrating the 250th birthday of America, and as much fun as that is, I just want to note that much of the founding of America was based on the founding of free market capitalism. And Adam Smith and his book, The Wealth of Nations, which was published in 1776.And on top of that, much of the founding was founded on the brilliant work of Alexander Hamilton, who after the Constitution was put in place, was America’s first and probably greatest Treasury secretary.And then there’s the whole subject of growth that is so important to this country. No nation over the last several centuries has grown as much as America. And Mr. Trump, with his one big, beautiful growth platform, believes we can grow even faster. And I’ll say nothing solves problems better than economic growth.Proper growth solves inflation. Proper growth solves debt and deficits. Proper growth makes people happier. Growth makes defenses stronger. Growth solves more problems than you could ever shake a stick at.And for all of Mr. Trump’s genius and for all of his transformative drain-the-swamp reforms, nothing will ever be as important as the endless goal of rapid American economic growth.Mr. Trump had it all last night. He laid it right out. It was epic. It was captivating. It wasn’t too long at all. It was a very happy couple of hours, if you ask me.From Mr. Kudlow’s broadcast on Fox Business Network.

Trump’s SOTU Unleashes America’s Golden Age of Growth

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