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Happy Friday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. The Sine Qua Non Sequitur is in Florida reminding concert ukuleleists that they still have time to regret unfortunate denim choices from their pasts.
We are going to head into the weekend on a light, upbeat note. The world needs more of those.
The pathological humorlessness of American leftists was on full display on Thursday. They really are a dour lot over there, aren't they?
Last month , I wrote a column that said I'm glad I'm on the side that doesn't apologize for laughing. It was inspired by lefties who wanted members of the United States Men's Olympic Hockey team to grovel at the altar of constipated woke for laughing at something that President Trump said when he called to congratulate them on winning the gold medal.
We wouldn't want a bunch of happy young athletes in a locker room after a huge victory to be happy about getting a call from the president of the United States now, would we?
President Trump's shoot-from-the-lip speaking style drives some people crazy, but I've always thought it's a feature, not a bug. There's the entertainment value, of course, but it also lends an honesty to his public persona that is lacking in most politicians.
We were treated to the above-mentioned entertainment value in grand fashion yesterday. This is from my Townhall colleague Jeff Charles:
President Donald Trump had an interesting exchange with a reporter during a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Thursday.
The conversation turned to the war in Iran, with a Japanese reporter asking, “why didn’t you tell U.S. allies in Europe and Asia like Japan about the war before attacking Iran?”
Trump replied, explaining, “you don’t want to signal too much,” and that “we went in very hard and we didn’t tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise.”
Then, he flipped the script. “Who knows better about surprise than Japan?” he asked. “Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?”
If he had been holding a microphone he would have dropped it at that point.
This hilarious exchange predictably bunched some underwear on the sourpuss left. My Twitchy colleague Doug P. covered some of that here.
A more serious and important announcement was made yesterday, something that no doubt also upset the Democrats and their flying monkeys in the mainstream media. They've all been heaping derision on President Trump because some of our allies have been a bit recalcitrant about helping the United States with security in the Strait of Hormuz. It's the same boilerplate "Europe doesn't love him," garbage that the Democrats repurpose for every Republican president.
That pet narrative of theirs was upended yesterday. This is from Catherine:
President Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform shared an alert on Thursday, and the governments themselves issued a joint statement confirming the important shift in open opposition to the terrorist Iranian regime during the joint U.S.-Israeli Operation Epic Fury. Japan and five European allies of the USA will finally do their fair share in the Strait, which is actually more important for their economies and energy supply than for ours.
Besides Japan, the countries that are now stating their “readiness” to assist in patrolling the Strait of Hormuz are Great Britain, Italy, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. “We condemn in the strongest terms recent attacks by Iran on unarmed commercial vessels in the Gulf, attacks on civilian infrastructure including oil and gas installations, and the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iranian forces,” the countries explained in the joint statement.
The mind rot from Trump Derangement Syndrome prevents the president's haters from ever grasping that the man is brilliant at negotiating and making deals. It's as if they've never heard of Donald Trump the billionaire real estate developer. The guy who wrote The Art of the Deal.
They will never admit that President Trump is very good at his job, of course. Thankfully, the feelings of mentally unwell leftists are irrelevant. All that matters is that President Trump knows what he is doing and he does it well. When people are curious about my enthusiasm for what the president and his administration are doing, I explain that it's not blind cheerleading. I can spend all day objectively pointing out what I think is going well. My feelings are irrelevant too, and we'd be in a much better place in this country if more people thought like that.
As long as he keeps the country on the right track, I don't care if President Trump tells jokes all day long. The more, the better, actually, especially if they keep sending the Dems running for the fainting couches.
And since we're talking about president with a sense of humor that makes the Democrats freak out, I will leave you with this Reagan gem:
Have a great weekend, everyone.
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