Making America Beautiful Again
"everything we did has to be pro-American — it has to make America stronger or safer or more prosperous”
Before the U.S. government adjourned for Labor Day weekend, President Trump held a televised cabinet meeting yesterday to “celebrate the victories American workers have experienced over the past eight months.”
At the start of the month, now fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer submitted a jobs report, in which job growth was adjusted to be more than 250,000 lower than earlier projections. President Trump heatedly responded on Truth Social claiming the report was “RIGGED” and “FAKE.”
In yesterday’s 3-hour spectacle, each Cabinet member waxed poetic about early successes of Trump’s administration within their Departments without divulging missteps or shortcomings to-date.
Rarely in this type of setting can any leader get an honest assessment of how an organization actually fares, let alone a President of the greatest nation on earth. Perhaps the only meaningful response came from a Cabinet member who is not directly connected to American employment, Secretary of State Marco Rubio:
“You made it very clear from the outset, even in foreign policy, everything we did has to be pro-American — it has to make America stronger or safer or more prosperous.”
That theme was echoed by Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, today when the Trump administration announced it would take over Union Station, Washington, D.C.’s main transportation hub, to make what should be a source of national pride “beautiful again. [Trump] wants transit to be safe again. And he wants our nation’s capital to be great again.”
Therein lies the best of what the administration can deliver and why it repeatedly falls short.