Photo: Alamy | Op-ed by Summer Lane
President Donald Trump promised to put America first, and he has kept that promise since taking office just six months ago.
His leadership has put America on a fast track to skyrocketing wealth and economic recovery – two feats that were perhaps thought impossible after the chaotic wreckage Joe Biden’s administration left in its wake.
But Trump has managed to do something uniquely special. He has revived a sense of national pride, along with an adventurous frontier spirit, and he’s accomplished this simply by putting Americans’ needs first – a truly novel idea that was arguably put out to pasture by decades of past tepid presidential administrations.
President Trump has embraced American pride and strength heartily.
A historic turnaround with tariffs
For too long, America’s greatness and might have been stymied by bloated overregulation, unfair taxation, and a revolving door of foreign wars.
Finally, America has a president who sees in this great country not simply a bureaucratic machine, but the potential for economic wealth that could propel the nation into a truly dazzling “Golden Age.”
President Trump has collected $100 billion in tariff revenue for the U.S. so far, and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent projects there will be an influx of up to $300 billion by the end of the year.
Impressively, he also made a “low” estimate of $2.8 trillion in tariff revenue over the next decade.
These tariffs are also forcing companies around the world to invest in the domestic United States, driving the American economy forward and creating thousands of new jobs for American-born workers.
Trump has already accrued trillions of dollars of investments from companies like Apple, NVIDIA, IBM, AstraZeneca, Hyundai, John Deere, and beyond.
“Smart tariffs will not create inflation, they will combat inflation,” Trump explained last year on the campaign trail.
Trump has been proven right on that. Amid his tariff policies, domestic investments have increased, market optimism is higher than ever, and inflation has eased considerably from its painful 2022 peak under Biden.
Importantly, tariffs have become a key point of his trade negotiations with foreign countries. In exchange for access to coveted U.S. markets, world leaders from across the globe have flown to meet with President Trump in an attempt to seal trade deals.
Some of those leaders have been successful, and some of them have not.
But President Trump has been fair in his dealings with all, and he has consistently kept American needs at the forefront of these negotiations.
A trade revolution
Just this month, President Trump sealed trade deals with Indonesia and Japan. After negotiations, America will pay a “ZERO” tariff rate on goods going into Indonesia, while Indonesia will pay a 19 percent fee on its goods imported in the U.S.
“This Deal is a HUGE WIN for our Automakers, Tech Companies, Workers, Farmers, Ranchers, and Manufacturers,” Trump said in a statement, per RSBN.
Incredibly, Trump’s new trade deal with Japan is worth a whopping $550 billion in U.S. investments and will add hundreds of thousands of jobs to the U.S. economy. According to Fox Business, Japan will open its markets to U.S. goods like cars, rice, and American ag products.
This comes on the heels of trade deals with the United Kingdom and Vietnam, as well as jaw-dropping, multi-billion-dollar economic investments in the United States from the Middle East.
There can be no doubt: President Trump has started an American trade revolution, and the wins are only just beginning.
