A few bold ideas for Trump's second term
Make the military great again, annex Greenland, and eliminate a major federal agency.
Last week, we discussed what President-elect Trump can do on day one to kick off his second term with a bang.
And there’s also a ton he can accomplish during a four-year timespan, especially with a Republican legislature hopefully establishing a healthy relationship with the White House.
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With a historic mandate secured, here’s some bold ideas for the incoming president’s tenure:
Make American defense great again
The military and the Department of Defense have many issues. Here are a few big ones:
The bidding process is uncompetitive.
Defense industry behemoths, such as Raytheon, Boeing, etc aren’t innovating as much as they should be, and there is no room for smaller players to enter into the industry without first having pledged fealty to the defense contractor industrial complex. To resolve this, Trump II should consider opening up the Pentagon-contractor relationship to many more patriotic endeavors.
The DOD is attached to old ideas and outdated platforms.
For example, the Pentagon’s insistence that America retains manned fighter jet platforms well into the future. That will leave the United States at a competitive disadvantage when squaring off against Chinese platforms. Instead of investing in expiring ideas, they should instead deploy those resources into UAV, jamming, and counter-jamming technologies.
Thanks to the efforts of Democrat administrations, so much of the military has been allocated to appealing to hyper wokeness.
The military shouldn’t be understood as a social welfare program. It should be purposed to defend the country and achieve victory in battle. All of the trans/DEI/ESG stuff is harming military readiness, and it’s sabotaging recruiting. It all needs to go, as soon as humanly possible.
Annex Greenland
Yes, the Trump Administration should absolutely try to find a way to annex Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark.
Greenland is insanely resource-rich and its geopolitical position is incredibly significant to American interests.
Denmark is hyper-liberal and wants to preserve Greenland, cutting the territory off from most human contact (other than the 50,000 or so people who live there) because they have bought into all of the climate narrative hysteria, so they’re just letting perfectly good (but very cold) land waste away.
The Trump Administration should reach out to Copenhagen and start the process of negotiations over the future of Greenland. They can start by leveraging Denmark’s failure to live up to the two-percent defense spending threshold as a NATO member.
Shut down at least one major federal agency
Last week, Elon Musk shared this video of the late Milton Friedman discussing the government agencies he would eliminate. He argued that they either have no legitimate mandate, or they serve no purpose in advancing a free and prosperous society:
Friedman was right. There are way too many federal agencies, most of which are redundant and/or easily replaceable on a more local level. The government wastes so much money. Perhaps the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) can flush out the waste by eliminating an entire department, saving taxpayers hundreds of billions in the process.
My pick is the Department of Education. Totally useless! Afuera!
What are your bold ideas for Trump II? Let me know in the comments!
Quarterly stimmy checks for savings from DOGE. Give power and funds back to the American people! Elon should buy MSNBC and turn it into the Meme News Network to mock the regime commissars: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/downfall-kamala-2024-election
Nice piece, Jordan! Thank you.
I would like Trump 2 to help all the people, that have encountered fema in their lives, who got no money from disasters, who got their land seized, (I am a victim of that from Superstorm Sandy, along with thousands of other Jerseyans) but in the fema file, I have “fema intake”. I am disabled, which fema loves to takes advantage of, and I have been lied to regarding housing. I am still homeless and suffer from the aftermath of that disaster.
I spoke with fema recoup, who is supposed to help you get your money from fema disasters when HI happened. For example, the Hawaiians (where is Gabbard in this?) were supposed to receive 42$ thousand, Jerseyans in 2013, 82$ thousand which none of us saw.
And the 750$ for NC residents remains a mystery to me!!! It’s extremely frustrating fighting with Mayorkas, who hangs up every time I call. I will start article on this, I have all of my paperwork from fema, regarding the seizure of my land, which I dug and found out, all of us that got trapped, could do a deed in lieu of their mortgage. I did. People have been paying a mortgage on land they lost, and they need to be compensated. I would love to see DHS get canned, since it was put in a lace through fema after 911. I have a very big issue, as a lot of people have been taken by fema, like what’s going on with the dhs/dea money seize at the airports. It all ties together and some of us are so done. This is the part of the gov, I would like tagged, bagged, butchered and sent to the supermarkets, meaning, I want a fair hearing from the Supreme Court to dismantle it all. PEOPLE NEED A PLACE TO LIVE. The stress of losing all that one has worked for, and is tagged by the feds, the feds should all be taken down.