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Trump truth Social post containing 2 videos. Video transcript The Donald J. Trump administration is arguably the most influential this century and probably as well dating back a good portion of the last century as well. Love it, like it, or lump it—Trump.
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Video transcript The Donald J. Trump administration is arguably the most influential this century and probably as well dating back a good portion of the last century as well.
Trump shared a video highlighting his administration’s policy actions, including signing 180 executive orders and implementing historically high tariffs. While the shared media claims an 18% effective tariff rate, independent estimates project the actual 2026 effective tariff rate will reach 7.2%.
Truth Social post containing 2 videos.
Video transcript The Trump administration is arguably the most influential this century and probably as well dating back a good portion of the last century as well. Love it, like it, or lump it—Trump is remaking the United States of America.
Let’s talk about tariffs first, right? There’s all this talk that Trump always chickens out when it comes to tariffs. Not so. The effective tariff rate—get this—it’s 18%, the highest since the FDR administration in the 1930s, up from just 2% last year. We’re talking about an effective tariff rate level nine times as high this year than last year.
But it’s not just tariffs, which of course Trump ran on and which you’re seeing a tremendously influential presidency. What about immigration? Trump ran and has always run on a very hawkish immigration platform. Get this: 2025 net migration in the United States is down at least 60% from last year. In fact, we may be heading for the first time in at least 50 years in which we have net negative migration into the United States. Last year, of course in 2024, net migration in the US was 2.8 million. This year we might be talking about negative net migration. My goodness gracious.
Now, of course, this is part of a larger story. We’re talking about immigration, net migration, we’re talking about the effective tariff rate. But get this—how is Trump doing it? Well, he is signing a ton of executive orders. Get this: 180, the most in a year since Franklin Delano Roosevelt. You have to go back to the first half of the 20th century to make a comparison. Joe Biden signed just 77 during his entire first year, and we’re only a little bit into August so far. Trump is making history with 180 executive orders signed so far this year.
That’s why I said that in my mind Trump is the most influential president of this century and probably dating back a good portion of the last century. That is because he is remaking the country in terms of tariffs, he is remaking the country in terms of net migration, and he is remaking the country in terms of how much policy change he’s putting through in executive orders. As I said, it truly is history-making. Love it, like it, or lump it.
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President Trump is the author of The Art of the Deal, Think Like a Billionaire, and Think Big. Analyst and Trump supporter Rod Martin points to The Art of the Deal, Trump's 1987 book, as an explanation of his deal-making philosophy: making big announcements, pivoting often in public statements and, Martin says, ultimately getting what he wanted all along. Critics contend that Trump's books were published decades ago or were aimed at making money, not shedding light. "Generally," Martin said, "critics don't read The Art of the Deal. If they did, they would understand."