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Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive. – HotAir

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Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive. – HotAir


Three years after John Berendt released his crime drama novel Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil in 1994, Clint Eastwood picked up the movie rights and filmed it. It featured a star-studded cast, and turned out to be one of the few movies Eastwood directed that he didn’t at least make a cameo in, let alone act in a leading role. But what he lacked in front of the camera, he made up for on the motion picture soundtrack. 



Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen wrote Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive in 1937, and the song was first recorded by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters. It has been covered a whole bunch of times in the decades that followed, but none of them as memorable as the way Clint sang it. 

On NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday morning with Kristen Welker, it didn’t take President Donald Trump very long to channel his inner Eastwood at the non-stop negativity coming from Welker and Resistance media. 

Trump is well within his rights to push back at the constant hair on fire attitude on display with the D.C. establishment that obviously can’t stand him. If you look around, things are going pretty well. He’s got a good case to make that improvements are already happening to the economy, and there’s a lot of optimism for the future. 

Just from the jobs report last Friday, here’s the analysis from Stephen Moore.





While anti-Trump forces talk about the calamity that is the Trump-induced stock market crash as a result of his tariffs, a funny thing has happened the last 10 trading days. The Dow is back to within 2,000 of its pre-tariff high. The S&P? Well, it’s completely shaken off the dip. 

Gas is cheaper. Eggs are less expensive and more plentiful. As fuel costs continue to decline, so, too, do transportation costs built into the price of everything in our economy. China is becoming more isolated by the day, with news of Apple shifting the manufacture of iPhones into India and the U.S. And they’re not the only company, domestically or internationally, that are decoupling from China. Have you looked at the Debt clock recently? It’s calculated that DOGE-related savings in federal spending have reached nearly $400 billion. Trump has a positive story to tell. 

Perhaps the President’s desire to focus on the good was impressed on him in the days and weeks following the attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania last year. I’ve just started the galley edition of Salena Zito’s great new book on that whole episode. It’s very real to her, because she was there and was tackled in the process of escaping the gunfire. Events like that can have a tendency of changing a person’s outlook on life. In my case, after being diagnosed three times with cancer and being told by one doctor to get my affairs in order because I’d never see the age of 50, I see life differently. I’m 58 now, cancer free for seven years, married to the most wonderful woman on the planet, and pretty optimistic about the future, happy with each new day God lets me see. 

Trump was the commencement speaker at the University of Alabama, and had this to say to the graduates. 





Now granted, Trump positivity might not always look like Richard Simmons positivity, it might not have the same viral life as Michael Keaton’s closing message in his commencement (I am Batman), but in his own way, Trump is trying to convey to those with eyes to see and ears to hear, things are looking up. 

I’d be happy at this point in the column to point out for comparison’s sake Kristen Welker’s treatment of Joe Biden when he was president, except for the problem that the White House never made him available, and Kristen Welker never talked on the show about the White House ducking her. She was never as critical of the Biden years as she has been thus far of Trump. And the scale balance here isn’t even close to level. 





Narrative advancing questions, one after another, and the President deftly turns the negativity on its head by pointing it out before pivoting to what’s working. 

When attempts to get a rise out of Trump on policy issues failed, she made a play for his ego. 

One last effort by Welker to get him to commit to running again in 2028. 

Even Trump haters would have to look at the President’s answers here and shrug. This is a totally normal response from any president when asked about their legacy or possible successors. 

Now Donald Trump will always have the Trump of old in him. Take the gaggle on Air Force 1 back to D.C. from Florida. 





But compared to the first Trump administration, this White House is much better run, more focused, without question more disciplined on messaging, and unlike the Biden regency, totally in control of the government. On the trip back to D.C, a reporter tried to press him on the move of Michael Waltz from National Security Advisor to the United Nations as ambassador. Trump tried to be nice at first, but had to shake his head and smirk before launching at the reporter for attempting to make something out of nothing. 

With China starting to signal it’s not digging the tariff regime at all, enough so that they’re willing to backpedal, trade deals with India and possibly South Korea and Japan imminent, and more clarity on what the President demands in a deal with Iran, something on which the Iranians will never agree, the week ahead might very well be another eventful one. But for now, there’s nothing wrong with accentuating the positive. 












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