The Morning Briefing: An Entertaining Treasury Secretary Is the Trump 47 Bonus Prize

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Happy Friday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. (In preparation for a whirlwind book tour, the Sine Qua Non Sequitur is pressing carrot juice for an actuary anger management support group.)

Once again, I ask, are you not entertained?

I know that my answer is yes. Despite the Democrats' relentless efforts to make everyone in the world as miserable as they are, I am having a rollicking good time since President Trump got back to the White House. I mean, I must be if I'm using words like "rollicking" now.

President Trump brings plenty of entertainment value all on his own, of course. I could spend all day watching him verbally groin-kick the pandering Dem simps in the mainstream media. This may be his second go at the presidency, be he's still got that anti-politician, Washington outsider vibe about him.

During his first term, Trump was surrounded by backbiting nitwits who had no concept of loyalty. Even his vice president was only along for the paycheck. It was quite the, "With friends like these, who needs enemies?" situation. And it was tedious, especially for those of us who voted for him.

This time around, Trump chose very wisely when putting together his administration. It is a tight-knit group that shares the president's vision and goals. More importantly, they share the delight he takes in putting the press hacks in their places. Vice President JD Vance came out of the gate swinging as soon as Trump tapped him to be his running mate. He's got a lot of company now. This is from a column I wrote to close out last year:

The first year of President Trump’s second term has offered us a master class in how the Republican Party should handle the MSM going forward. The president is no longer alone in his ongoing battle against the inherent bias in the dinosaur media. Vice President JD Vance, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio also have no patience for the antics of the Dem propagandists who masquerade as journalists.

I was so caught up in enjoying the work that all of the above mentioned people were doing that I hadn't yet gotten around to appreciating the way that Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent was handling the hostiles. Hey, I can only pay attention to so many people at once, but I'm noticing now.

Of course, the Team Trump Republicans who boldly pushback on the flying monkeys in the MSM are equally adept at doing the same with Democrats in Congress.

This is from Catherine:

Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent just figuratively buried the hatchet… in Sen. Elizabeth “Fauxcahontas” Warren (D-Mass.).
As usual, Democrat senators resorted to screaming and insults rather than actual serious questions during Bessent’s Thursday testimony. The calm Treasury Secretary scalped the shrieking harpy known as Sen. Warren in hilarious fashion and also exposed how she fueled the problem she claims to be deploring.
As context for the clip below, Warren was losing her marbles — or her arrowheads — over the report that Donald Trump called the affordability crisis a scam and a hoax. What Trump actually said was that Democrats talking about affordability is a “scam” and a “hoax,” because they created the crisis to begin with and fueled and prolonged it as much as possible under the Biden administration. They are also trying to thwart the president’s agenda to solve the crisis.

Catherine has a couple of videos of the exchange in her post. Elizabeth Warren is one of the most execrable people ever to taint the Senate chamber, and she often gets away with bulldozing people. Not these days. Bessent not only bulldozed right back, he threw in a bit of condescension to spice things up.

Seriously, when was the last time that the Treasury secretary was must-see TV (or internet, or whatever)? There are some real perks to having a president who is not only brilliant at that job, but also happened to be a master showman before he got the gig. Yeah, I voted for this too.

I keep describing all of this as entertainment, which it most definitely is. Because I've been writing about the left-leaning bias in the mainstream media, it's so much more than that. For decades, I watched Republican politicians act like whipped dogs as Dems and their media minions lied and steamrolled them. There would occasionally be one who had some guts — Newt Gingrich comes to mind — but they never had much support.

President Trump has built a team of people who are able to tune out the only real weapon that the Democrats have: noise. The chaos, the protests, the shrieking harridans like Elizabeth Warren — they're all meant to distract and paralyze their opposition. The Trump 47 crew casually dismisses all of it — in entertaining fashion — and keeps moving forward with the mission.

And in 10 years, we'll all be able to remember who the Treasury secretary was in 2026 without having to look it up.

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