Douglas V. Gibbs ——Bio and Archives--January 5, 2026

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The country elected President Trump for results, with the understanding that a firm hand produces measurable outcomes. Progressive talking heads insist everything is static and binary. If you don’t love and accept someone, you must hate them. If you don’t speak only favorably about certain groups, you’re labeled racist, homophobic, Islamophobic, or assigned whatever new phobia they invent.

If you refuse to appease your enemies, you’re a warmonger. If you oppose taxing the rich, you must hate the poor. If you questioned Presidents Obama or Biden, you’re an insurrectionist. If you don’t question everything President Trump does, you’re also an insurrectionist. And of course, if you act against another country, even one that has committed war crimes against the United States, you’re suddenly a warmonger guilty of war crimes yourself.

While the commie Democrats operate through partisan theatrics, President Trump and the MAGA movement operate through common sense and measurable outcomes. President Trump campaigned on prosperity and security, and central to that security has been immigration enforcement, the mass deportation of illegal aliens (targeting criminal aliens first), and stopping the onslaught of hostile international activity directed at the United States.

As the New Year took hold, the United States carried out a strike against Venezuela that resulted in Nicolás Maduro and his wife being captured and detained by American forces. They have been indicted in the Southern District of New York on charges including Narco‑Terrorism Conspiracy, Cocaine Importation Conspiracy, Possession of Machine guns and Destructive Devices, and Conspiracy to Possess Machine guns and Destructive Devices against the United States. According to President Donald Trump, they will soon face the full weight of American justice on American soil in American courts.

Venezuelans flooded the streets in celebration, popping bottles and singing about freedom, liberty, and a second chance. Democrats, however, still consumed by Trump Derangement Syndrome, could not bring themselves to celebrate the fall of a dictator or the end of the collapse of what was once one of the world’s great economies. Instead, they clutched their pearls and launched into a full‑blown meltdown, accusing President Trump of warmongering and claiming he violated the Constitution with his historic action.

Representative Dan Goldman (D-NY) screamed that, “Trump’s unilateral operation last night was an illegal act of war without Congress’s authorization.”

Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) accused, “Without........

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