If you missed it, Skip and I spent a moment on a recent episode of GrokTALK! considering why GraniteGrok is getting every White House press email. I think it was because we were on Trump’s White House Press Corps list after covering a rally in Manchester in 2018 from the Media Platform. I still have the lanyard with the White House Press Corps placard on it. Skip suggested it was because we endorsed Karolin Leavitt in the Republican Primary during her run for Congress in New Hampshire. Whatever the reason, we get it all—scores of official press emails each week.
Among these are the “look what Trump did” compilations of orders, actions, or accomplishments for a given day, week, or whatever. This morning, I woke to a longer-than-usual version, and rather than figure out which were worthy of their own post—most, if not all, could be—it was easier to share them all and let you assign value to each as fits your priorities or demeanor.
These are prefaced by the White House Press Office as only a few of the victories from the past week.
Only a few.
- President Trump brought home an American citizen wrongfully detained in Russia and another American detained in Belarus — the tenth and eleventh hostages freed since he took office.
- Michael McFaul, U.S. Ambassador to Russia under President Obama, reacted to Marc Fogel’s release and said: “Hallelujah! Fantastic news! Praise be to President Donald Trump … This is just fantastic news for anybody who cares about patriotic Americans.”
- President Trump restored a 25% tariff on steel imports and elevated the tariff to 25% on aluminum imports to protect these critical American industries from unfair foreign competition.
- The Steel Manufacturers Association released a statement applauding “President Trump for putting the American steel industry and its workers first by imposing a 25 percent tariff on all steel imports. President Trump understands that America’s steel industry is the backbone of our economy. A thriving domestic steel industry is critical to U.S. national, energy and economic security.”
- The president of the Aluminum Association said: “We appreciate President Trump’s continued focus on strong trade actions to support the aluminum industry in the United States.”
- Colorado Springs-based, family-owned Western Steel, Inc., praised the move: “What we hope that the tariffs will bring is some sort of stability to U.S. pricing. It allows a little bit more money to be made … on the intermediate level like us.”
- President Trump unveiled a plan for fair and reciprocal trade, making clear to the world that the United States will no longer tolerate being ripped off.
- The Renewable Fuels Association said: “The Brazilian tariff on U.S. ethanol now stands at 18 percent and has virtually eliminated all market access for U.S. ethanol producers. We thank President Trump for taking this action and hope this reciprocal tariff will help encourage a return to free and fair ethanol trade relationship with Brazil.”
- President Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in pursuit of finally securing peace.
- President Trump hosted Jordan’s King Abdullah II, who announced the Kingdom will accept 2,000 sick children from Gaza “as quickly as possible.”
- President Trump joined Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to announce new deals between the two countries on immigration, trade, energy, and artificial intelligence.
- The Department of Energy approved the first liquefied natural gas project since the prior administration banned LNG exports last year.
- President Trump declared all foreign policy must be conducted under the President’s direction, ensuring career diplomats reflect the foreign policy of the United States at all times.
- President Trump paused enforcement of the overregulation of American business practices abroad, which negatively impacted national security.
- Hamas agreed to free additional Israeli hostages after President Trump declared “all hell is going to break out” if the terrorist group delayed.
- Taiwan pledged to boost its investment in the United States amid President Trump’s tariffs.
- President Trump received his highest ever approval rating in a CBS News poll — with 70% of Americans agreeing he is keeping his promises.
- President Trump attended Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans, becoming first sitting President to do so and bringing back tradition of pre-Super Bowl interviews.
- Illegal border crossings have hit lows not seen in decades.
- Hundreds of illegal aliens from Venezuela were repatriated back to their own country on Venezuelan-owned planes.
- Illegal aliens have started turning around in droves amid the Trump Administration’s crackdown on dangerous illegal immigration.
- The Department of Homeland Security “clawed back” tens of millions of dollars in funds paid by rogue FEMA officials to house illegal aliens in luxury New York City hotels.
- President Trump instructed the Secretary of the Treasury to stop production of the penny, which costs 3.69 cents to make.
- Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins were confirmed by the Senate — continuing the Trump Administration’s rapid pace of confirmations.
- President Trump signed an executive order barring COVID-19 vaccine mandates in schools that receive federal funding.
- President Trump established the National Energy Dominance Council to advise on achieving energy dominance.
- President Trump established the Make America Healthy Again Commission, which redirects the national focus to promoting health rather than simply managing disease.
- President Trump signed an executive to end the use of paper straws.
- President Trump shut down the Biden-era “Climate Corps” work program.
- President Trump secured the resignations of 75,000+ federal workers, or approximately 3.75% of the federal workforce, in an effort to eliminate inefficiency at taxpayer expense.
- President Trump commenced his plan to downsize the federal bureaucracy and eliminate waste, bloat, and insularity — including an order that agencies hire no more than one employee for every four employees who leave.
- The Trump Administration ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — the brainchild of Elizabeth Warren, which funneled cash to left-wing advocacy groups — to halt operations.
- President Trump ended the wasteful Federal Executive Institute, which had become a training ground for bureaucrats.
- President Trump ordered the immediate dismissal of the Board of Visitors for the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard following years of woke ideologies infiltrating U.S. service academies.
- Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth restored Fort Liberty, North Carolina, to “Fort Bragg,” in honor of a World War II hero.
- President Trump instructed EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to terminate Biden-era regulations restricting water flow and mandating inadequate lightbulb standards.
- President Trump proclaimed “Gulf of America Day” after the Department of the Interior officially changed the name on its mapping databases.
- Google Maps and Apple Maps both updated their apps to reflect the new name.
- The Department of Justice filed suit against the State of New York and its elected officials over their willful failure to follow federal immigration law.
- The Environmental Protection Agency canceled tens of millions of dollars in contracts to left-wing advocacy groups and announced an investigation into a scheme by Biden EPA staffers to shield billions of dollars from oversight and accountability.
- The Department of Education announced an investigation into the Minnesota State High School League and California Interscholastic Federation for violation of federal anti-discrimination law by allowing men to compete in women’s sports.
- The Federal Bureau of Investigation discovered 2,400 additional records on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which were never provided to the board tasked with reviewing and disclosing the documents. The discovery happened due to President Trump’s executive order calling for the declassification of JFK assassination documents.
- The Department of Veterans Affairs implemented a new flag policy to promote the prominence of the American flag and ensure consistency among its facilities.
- President Trump was unanimously elected as Chairman of The Kennedy Center Board of Trustees and fired a slew of the Center’s board members over their obsession with perpetuating radical ideologies.
- U.S. crude oil stockpiles continued to rise, which they have done every week since President Trump took office.
- Chicago Lurie Children’s Hospital paused sex change surgeries for minors in response to President Trump’s executive order ending the radical practice.
- Taxpayer-funded PBS closed its DEI office and Disney dropped two of its DEI programs after President Trump’s executive order reining in such discriminatory practices.
That was one week.
The weeks before were equally plump with kudos to the new administration. I will try to make a habit of sharing these because we lack the bandwidth to touch them all individually, and the handmaiden media isn’t going to cover a fraction of them with even a fraction of the enthusiasm it had for reporting on Joe Biden stopping to get ice cream.
If you choose to accept it, your job is to share part or all of the list—the link to our post itself if so inclined—to ensure as many people as possible are aware of the volume of activity and the general goodness that it represents as a whole and in its parts each week.
Think of it as a public service and an opportunity to criticize your local machine media for ignoring all this activity or remarking on how they spin it if they do.
And as always, love ’em, hate ’em, or in-between in comments.
