The World Is On Bended Knee To Trump
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He’s not even raised his right hand and taken the oath to uphold the Constitution (again) yet, and already America and the world is strategically lining up to bend the knee to the most powerful man on the planet. His resounding win sent shock waves from sea to shining sea.
Elon Musk was first to recognize the unbridled power Donald Trump was set to garner when a would-be assassin nearly blew his head off. Musk was among the first of the new Trump era: a prominent critic turned Trump loyalist.
Original MAGA — the regular folk who’ve supported Trump from the start — welcomed the Tech God to the party with open arms.
Then, the results started pouring in on November 5th, 2024. It was quickly clear that Trump had the country in his grasp. Kamala Harris was rejected. The progressive agenda was being obliterated. And the legacy media was exposed as incompetent at best, delusional propagandists at worst.
Three hundred and twelve electoral votes, all battleground states won handily and, for good measure, Trump won (a shocker given that there are 3 million more registered Democrats than Republicans) the popular vote.
America handed Trump a powerful mandate: Do your thing, we support you, full-stop.
One by one, the latest Trump haters made their way to Mar-a-Lago, hats in hands, tails planted firmly up their badly beaten backsides.
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were early arrivals down in Florida — and earned a cold shoulder from Trump, followed by a middle finger from their liberal audience. Angry viewers tuned out as the two described their walk-of-shame. It was a moment in which American news consumers may have realized they had been fooled — tricked even — by the legacy media.
That Mar-a-Lago meeting came after an election campaign in which Scarborough compared Trump to Hitler and his supporters to Nazis.
The news of the MSNBC morning hosts bending their knees to Trump was a shocking turn given their years of frantic opposition to his movement. It proved just how much Trump has bent the mainstream media — and other institutions — to his will.
By then, the path to Mar-a-Lago was becoming well-worn.
A couple days after his emphatic win, Trump flexed, warning Canada and Mexico, “Fix your borders, that allow millions of illegals from all around the world into America, or face huge tariff retaliation.”
Mexico first tried the tough-talk route, then wised-up, and soon President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo pulled a perfect moonwalk and has now vowed to work with Trump.
Justin Trudeau hopped a jet and tried to talk Trump into a new friendship… but the most progressive leader in the world instead got an offer: If you behave, I’ll make you Governor of Canada, America’s 51st state.
Trudeau cowered back to Ottawa and promptly resigned as Canada’s prime minister.
The path to Mar-a-Lago continued to be lined with world leaders, business tycoons and others who understand the sheer power Trump now has, given the election’s lop-sided result.
Jeff Bezos, the owner of the left-leaning Washington Post, showed up with his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez to kiss the Trump ring. ThePost has never endorsed Trump and, like The New York Times, had been brutal in its coverage of Trump the man and Trump the candidate.
Bezos didn’t hide his intentions. He offered millions to the Trump Inauguration Fund and then took things a giant leap forward by offering future (and former) First Lady Melania Trump a $40 million deal to produce a documentary on her life for his Prime Video Network.
And this week, Meta founder and Chairman Mark Zuckerberg shocked the world when he announced his company, which owns Facebook and Instagram, was moving away from their liberally biased fact-checking policy to a Muskian “community notes” system. And here’s the kicker: Meta announced this new major shift in direction in an interview ON FOX NEWS! Zuckerberg appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast on Friday to explain himself further.
That is the Facebook that famously banned sitting President Trump in 2021 for “misinformation.”
We may never have known about all of this if Trump hadn’t pivoted his campaign strategy late in the 2024 run. It’s being called the first “Podcast Presidency” because Trump famously steered clear of most of the free airtime being offered to him from the legacy media in favor of independent voices and platforms where Americans are increasingly getting their news.
And what a prescient pivot that was. Buy whoever came up with that strategy a drink — or perhaps lunch, as Trump has credited his 18-year-old son Barron Trump for pushing him toward the digital world. Whoever pushed that idea to the boss should be rewarded for potentially making the difference in the election.
In the digital world: podcasts, YouTube, Rumble… Trump was able to be himself. Real, organic, uncensored. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris was fighting to produce an ounce of authenticity. Her mistake was, beyond her personal failings, trying to do it within the censored confines of cable and broadcast news, where pulling that off is nearly impossible.
The result: on November 5th, 2024, Trump won and Trump Derangement Syndrome died. Disdain for Trump among the powerful was extinguished — or at least suppressed to the point of invisibility — and the legacy media was dealt a devastating blow.
Trust me on this, I know that world all too well. I am thanking my lucky stars I’m free to deliver the truth, raw and uncensored, outside of the confines of traditional media and its guardrails.
The world tried to resist Trump in his first term. It is now on bended knee.
Eric Bolling is a two-time New York Times best-selling author, a former host on Fox News and CNBC, current host of the BOLLING! show and podcast, and former Pittsburgh Pirate.
This is an opinion piece. The views expressed in this article are those of just the author.
