There was a lot of sneering about the president’s prime-time address to the nation last week, when he trumpeted his achievements for the year. It was too “loud.” It was too “partisan.” It was too boastful. It was too “Trumpian.” It interrupted the finale of “Survivor.” Oh, no!

But Donald Trump was right to count the ways his administration has delivered on its promises this year. Nobody else will.

“I inherited a mess, and I’m fixing it,” was Trump’s theme, with a modest pitch for an optimistic outlook in 2026.

On Thursday, the day after his speech, fate smiled on him when inflation figures came in at 2.7%, well below the 3.1% predicted by experts and below the long-term US average. Democrats were devastated.

But you probably didn’t hear the good news because only news that hurts Trump counts, and if you did hear it you would have had to wade through all sorts of qualifications and caveats crafted by Grinches in newsrooms across the land. The media gatekeepers suddenly become sticklers for footnotes when there’s a risk that Trump might be shown in a positive light.

The problem with governing competently is that people quickly take it for granted. When was the last time anyone talked about the border?

The Washington Post last week bemoaned the changes implemented in Trump’s first year to rein in the federal government bureaucracy so you know they were good.

“Entire agencies were deleted,” it wails. “Nearly 300,000 employees were forced out of the federal workforce . . . [the Trump administration also] gutted or eliminated offices and programs devoted to civil rights and........

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