By Mike Huckabee
June 8, 2019
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To kick off your weekend in a celebratory mood, here’s some great news for fans of free speech and freedom of thought and expression in this era of censorious liberal tech giants. Think of this story as getting an early start on your Fourth of July Independence Day celebration.
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President Trump has put his tariffs on Mexico on indefinite hold. So celebrate by making a big bowl of guacamole and leaning back for a new episode of “Huckabee” tonight on TBN. You’ll meet an outstanding teacher who was fired by a private L.A. high school for expressing conservative beliefs on her own time, and a Huck’s Hero who’s putting both feet forward to stop sex trafficking. David and Tamela Mann will talk about how they keep their marriage strong while juggling successful dual careers in music and acting. Best-selling author James Robbins will reveal the radical left’s plan to erase America’s future by purging us of our past. On the lighter side, I’ll have some crazy news “In Case You Missed It,” plus hilarious comedy from “America’s Got Talent” finalist, Tom Cotter. Then we’ll top it all off with music from multi-platinum country artist, Neal McCoy.
All that and more awaits you tonight on”Huckabee” at 8 and 11 EST, 7 and 10 CST, and the same times on Sunday, only on TBN. To find your local TBN channel and stream previous episodes online, visit https://www.tbn.org/programs/huckabee
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I mentioned recently that it must be tough to be in the media these days. You can no longer simply report what happened in a news story, you first have to find some negative aspect about President Trump to emphasize and work backwards from there. When the news is good and Trump appears to have been right, this is especially hard, although certainly not impossible.
For instance, this week Trump surprised everyone by announcing plans to put a 5% tariff on Mexican imports if Mexico didn’t help stop the flood of illegal migrants across Mexico and into the US.
The political and media establishments were predictably aghast. Democrats railed, and even some Republicans rebelled. Trump was crazy, a moron, he didn’t understand how things work, Mexico would never cooperate, he was going to spark a trade war and destroy the economy, the tariff on avocados would add a whole nickel to the cost of a Chipotle burrito, and, and--
And then…it worked.
Mexico’s President, after some initial for-the-cameras Trump-bashing, quickly sought a meeting to negotiate. Last night, Trump tweeted that a deal had already been signed. Mexico would commit 6,000 troops to help seal its own southern border and reform its asylum rules to help keep genuine asylum seekers there. There are more details that Trump said would be released soon. In return, his threatened tariffs are now on indefinite hold
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-makes-deal-with-mexico-on-tariffs-immigration-trump-announces
In short: Trump was right, his critics were wrong. He got what he wanted. His strategy that couldn’t possibly work, did. He won. Bigly. One commentator said he’s the first President ever to get Mexico to take any serious action to stop illegal immigration. Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro humbly admitted he’d been 100% wrong and Trump was 100% right.
https://www.westernjournal.com/ben-shapiro-admits-trump-100-right-100-wrong-latest-report-true/
And how did the liberal media react? Well, the New York Times suggested that Trump had capitulated to Mexico and backed down by accepting the deal and rescinding his tariff threat (never mind that the tariff was only threatened in order to get the deal, which he got.) Meanwhile, CNN sniped that this was all just theater to distract from a weak May jobs report. One CNN analyst sneered, "At the beginning of the week, how many people in Washington thought this is exactly where we would be on Friday night?" And host Don Lemon replied, "I think everybody did."
Oh, really? If they meant that everybody expected that no matter how big a win Trump pulled off, CNN would be claiming that Trump lost, then yeah: I think everybody did expect that.
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Here’s a rare example of a double-layer Trump Derangement Syndrome story. Bill Maher’s guests must surely be used to hearing some crazy stuff by now, but even they were agog when Maher suggested discussing what would happen if Trump killed his entire North Korean negotiating team. This was based on a story claiming that Kim Jong-Un had executed his top negotiator for failing to reach a nuclear deal with Trump.
Not only was it insane to suggest that Trump would execute his negotiating team, but even the story about Kim had already been debunked as fake news, with his chief negotiator having been spotted near Kim at a concert a few days after it ran.
On the bright side, while this might be crazy, unfounded conjecture, at least it’s more entertaining than the crazy, unfounded conjecture that the left usually passes off as Trump news.
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Alec Baldwin announced that he is “so done” playing President Trump on “Saturday Night Live” and will hand the role off to someone else. Good news for the many viewers who are “so done” with tuning in to “SNL” to watch weekly, unfunny vicious Trump bashing instead of comedy.
https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/alec-baldwin-hateful-trump-impersonation-snl/
Trump himself already offered the best suggestion for a replacement: Darrell Hammond. He’s one of the best impressionists on the planet, and he used to do a terrific Trump before Baldwin took over. For the past few years, he’s been wasted in the job of announcing the opening credits. Like all great impressionists, Hammond captures the humanity of the person, then brings out his quirks for comic effect. His Trump was much more believable because it seemed like a comic exaggeration of a real human being and not a one-dimensional hatchet job out of a propaganda cartoon.
Wait, I think I just realized why “SNL” replaced him…
In a related story, once again, the Babylon Bee shows “SNL” how political humor should be done…
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Fun Video: The Democrats thought they were going to make the case for impeaching President Trump with a marathon out-loud reading of the Mueller report. Most Americans ignored this latest novel way to waste legislators’ time and taxpayers’ money. But it inspired the Washington Free Beacon to do a little editing and create something Trump’s enemies probably didn’t think about, since thinking about the consequences of their actions isn’t their strong suit.
Click here to see a telescoped video of some of Trump’s most vitriolic Congressional critics having to read out loud on camera the sections of the Mueller report that repeatedly state that no evidence was found that Trump or any of his staffers colluded with Russia and that evidence did not establish that Trump or his staffers attempted to obstruct the investigation.
You know, they’re right. This seemed like a dumb stunt, but it really has helped make it much clearer exactly what’s going on in Washington.
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A big salute to the University of Alabama for reminding one of its donors that just because you donate some money, you don’t get to dictate morality to the state’s voters. If you sincerely believe in protecting innocent life in the womb, then that principle shouldn’t be for sale to the highest bidder.
Let’s hope the same lesson is delivered to the preening Hollywood hypocrites who think they can blackmail Georgians into accepting unfettered abortion by threatening to shoot movies and TV shows elsewhere, even as they continue to enrich themselves by doing business with such bastions of liberal values as China and Egypt.
https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/u-rips-biggest-donors-name-off-building-attacks-pro-life-law/
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Before this 75th anniversary week of D-Day slips into history, here’s one more must-read article by Judge Vance Day, the COO and general counsel of Promise Keepers. It’s a remembrance of his friend and mentor, Buck Compton, his heroism on D-Day and beyond, and the three important life lessons that Compton taught him.
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