Yesterday, I listened to a liberal commentator on talk television claim that President Trump’s promises “aren’t taking place.” The statement wasn’t just misleading—it was laughable. It ignored a basic truth that anyone paying attention can see: the problems she listed didn’t begin under Trump. They were created, fed, and multiplied over years of liberal leadership. Now the same people responsible for the mess expect conservatives to fix the damage in a few months—and when the repair isn’t instant, they declare Trump a failure. It’s hypocrisy disguised as analysis.
The liberal left has perfected this routine. They push destructive policies for years, watch the consequences unfold in real time, and then point fingers at whoever tries to restore order. They burn the house down and then blame the firefighter for not rebuilding it fast enough. Gavin Newsom is just one example—not the center of the story, but the perfect illustration of liberal policy failure in action.
Under Newsom’s leadership, California became a testing ground for the liberal agenda: unchecked spending, soft-on-crime laws, suffocating regulations, open-border ideology, and cradle-to-crisis government dependency. The results were predictable. Homelessness exploded despite billions thrown at the problem. Crime surged while leaders claimed it was “overblown.” Businesses shut their doors, families fled the state, and U-Haul literally ran out of trucks. That’s why many now call him U-Haul Newsom, the governor whose policies helped more California families pack up and leave than any natural disaster ever could.
But Newsom isn’t the point—he’s just the preview. He represents the broader pattern of failure the liberal left has carried from state capitals into Washington, D.C. They weakened the border, hollowed out the energy sector, encouraged crime through leniency, crippled small businesses with regulation, and treated American manufacturing like an outdated inconvenience. Then, when chaos followed, they shrugged and insisted everything was fine—until a conservative stepped in to repair their damage. Only then did they suddenly become critics.
And now they complain that Trump hasn’t fixed everything “fast enough.” They demand instant solutions to problems they spent years creating. They attack the very policies that are reversing their failures. But while they criticize from the sidelines, Trump is bringing back the fundamentals that actually work. He is restoring strong border enforcement to stop the illegal crossings that exploded under left-wing open-border policies. He is reviving American energy independence, lowering costs, creating jobs, and ending reliance on unstable foreign governments. He is strengthening law enforcement and reinstating consequences for crime, giving communities the safety they lost. And he is reigniting economic growth by reducing needless regulations, bringing manufacturing jobs home, and empowering American workers again.
These are not theories. They are proven, results-driven policies—policies that previously delivered the strongest economy in modern history, the lowest unemployment for every demographic, secure borders, affordable energy, and rising wages across the board. The liberal left hated those policies not because they failed, but because they worked.
So when a commentator claims Trump’s promises “aren’t happening,” I can’t help but shake my head. The issues she mentioned were not born under Trump—they were inherited from the very politicians she supports. And the loudest critics today are the same voices that watched America decline under their own policies without lifting a finger to stop it.
Trump isn’t the problem. He’s the cleanup crew. The liberal left created the crisis, and now they criticize the person sweeping up their broken pieces. But America knows the truth: you cannot fix in a few months what liberals broke over many years. And the last people qualified to complain about the repair are the ones who caused the damage in the first place.