Trump's One Year Anniversary: Many Successes, Many Promises Kept

Trump took office one year ago, January 20, 2025.

Amanda Head of Just the News notes some of the big success.

Tuesday marks the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump's return to office for his second term, and the country is nearly unrecognizable from the way it looked under his predecessor, former President Joe Biden.

The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate right now is at roughly 6.02%, down from about 7.04% a year ago in January, when Biden was still in office. However, that's three-quarters of a point down from the rate in October of 2023, when the 30-year fixed mortgage rate reached 7.79%. Average rates were roughly 2.5 times higher than when Biden took over following Trump's first term.

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Gas prices cratering

As of January 2026, the national average price for regular gasoline is roughly $2.82 a gallon, down from around $3.08 in January 2025 under the end of the Biden administration.

The highest national average gas price during the Biden presidency skyrocketed to roughly $5.02 a gallon in June 2022, driven largely by self-inflicted refining capacity constraints.

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Egg-cellent prices

Right now, the national average retail price for a dozen Grade A large eggs is about $2.71, down from around $4.15 in January 2025 at the end of the Biden administration.

The highest egg prices under Biden hit roughly $4.82 per dozen, in early 2023, and spiked again in 2025 (reaching $8.17 in some retail locations in March) mainly due to avian flu outbreaks that forced massive flock culling.

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Bidenflation no more

The annual U.S. inflation rate (taken from the federal government's monthly Consumer Price Index report) now sits at 2.7% for the 12 months ending December 2025, unchanged from the prior month and down from around 3% at the end of Biden's term in January 2025.

In what came to be known as Bidenflation, the highest rate during the Biden presidency peaked at 9.1% year-over-year in June 2022, the highest in over 40 years, with cumulative inflation totaling a staggering 21.5%.

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GDP growth

The latest BEA (Bureau of Economic Analysis) numbers show real domestic Gross Domestic Product grew at a solid 4.3% annualized pace in the third quarter of 2025 (July--September), and the Atlanta Fed's GDPNow is now pointing to roughly 5.3% for the fourth quarter of 2025 -- up substantially from the roughly 2.4% annualized growth in fourth-quarter 2024 toward the end of the Biden administration.

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Trump closes out his first year with border crossings down 95%.

This drop includes the illegal-alien population, which fell by an estimated 576,000 amid over 622,000 reported deportations and reports of 1.9 million self-deportations.

Under Biden's administration, the foreign-born population grew to a peak of 53.3 million by January 2025. The illegal-alien population reached a record 14 million in 2023 before beginning to stabilize or slightly decline in late 2024, contrasting with the sharp contraction in 2025 as Biden-era deportations focused more on border encounters rather than interior enforcement.

More at the link, including the peace deals.

Which brings me to a point of dissatisfaction: Trump might just have decided that Obama Was Right to Spare the Mullahs and Protect the Ayatollah.

I don't know if this is true -- the USS Abraham Lincoln is still four days away (I think) from Iran -- but it looks like he's selling out the Iranian protesters he urged to take to the streets and "TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!"

If [leftwing critics]had been right this time [that Trump is a warmonger], we'd now be hearing Trump give the command for "bombs away" over Tehran.

Instead, there he was on the White House lawn Friday afternoon, pointedly thanking the mullahs for not following through on their vow to execute hundreds of political prisoners rounded up in the protests.

"Iran canceled the hanging of over 800 people," Trump said, adding that he "greatly respected" the move.

To those with an honest and open mind, the week's roller coaster ride illustrated how Trump's fondness for talking about America's military might is often purposeful sword-rattling.

The bluster, this time and often, serves as an invitation to negotiations or is so persuasive that he gets most of what he wants without having to fire a shot.

'I convinced myself'

As the week began, the scenes in Iran looked like a five-alarm fire.

With the mullahs slaughtering their own citizens for the crime of protesting a collapsing economy, the calls for America to stop it grew louder, and Trump was game.

He gave every indication that our military was locked, loaded and ready to go.

In a bristling Tuesday post on Truth Social, he sounded prepared to take action with his promise to the brave demonstrators that "help is on its way."

"KEEP PROTESTING -- TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!!."

He urged those in the streets, adding, "Save the names of the killers and abusers. They will pay a big price."

Within 24 hours, he pulled back and explained the move by saying "very important sources" told him Iran had stopped killing protesters and was not moving forward with mass executions.

It's not clear where he got that information, but so far it has been largely accurate.

Additionally, reports surfaced that Trump was hearing warnings from our regional allies, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman and Turkey, that hitting Iran could ignite a much bigger war because of counterattacks by Iran and its heavily armed terror allies, such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen.

Some warnings raised the possibility of an Iranian civil war that could unleash a flood of refugees.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also asked Trump to postpone any attack so Israel would have more time to prepare for the likelihood that it would be a target of Iranian retaliation.

On Friday, Trump rebuffed the chatter that pressure from foreign leaders led him to pull back.

"Nobody convinced me. I convinced myself," he told reporters.

He also added that the regime's canceling of executions "had a big impact" on his decision.

The Wall Street Journal added two other factors.

First, military advisers told the president the US must beef up its resources in the region to carry out a significant attack and also protect our troops and allies.

The second reason was that Trump was told that a military attack probably would not topple the Islamic regime but would result in stepped-up brutality against demonstrators.

The upshot is that Trump's decision to hold off on a military strike was clearly the right and prudent call, at least for now.

Another reason? He keeps meeting with the sinister Islamist Tucker Carlson.

Does Trump know that Tucker Carlson keeps claiming that Netanyahu "controls" him?

Grok
@grok

After reviewing the video and multiple sources, Tucker Carlson claims Netanyahu privately told people he controls the US and Trump, based on unnamed sources Tucker spoke to. No verifiable public records or direct quotes from Netanyahu confirm this. Netanyahu denied similar claims

I'm still hoping that Trump is making pacifist noises just to encourage the Iranians to stop the mass slaughter of civilians. I hope he's playing them, to give the protesters time until US forces are gathered and ready to strike.

But I kind of doubt that. I think the sinister Islamist Tucker Carlson has once again tricked Trump into pursuing the Carlson Foreign Policy rather than the Trump Foreign Policy we actually voted for.

posted by Ace at 03:50 PM

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