Memorial Day, 2016. This is the time of year Americans by the tens of millions hit their knees in memory of Fathers, Mothers, Brothers, Sisters, Sons, Daughters, Uncles, Aunts, Cousins and Friends. Many millions looked back to honor the First Americans — those who gave everything to give birth to the Immaculate Idea you call America. The current POTUS naturally took part in the tribute. Relying on his sole proficiency, he delivered token speeches convincingly, credibly and coolly. No emotion, no catch-in-the-throat. Not a tear. None of that drama. As he recited platitudes to the Nation he was pledged to defend, he already had reserved his zeal for the people of Japan. With premeditation, just two days prior to Memorial Day, he visited Hiroshima to advance the cause of nuclear disarmament. He didn’t fall to his knees. Didn’t beg for clemency. Didn’t bow. But the intent of his visit could not have been more apparent. With this visit, at this memorable time, his unspoken message was: “I’m truly sorry we dropped the bomb on that unfortunate day in 1945. It was a mistake. And we must forever atone for that sin.” To honor his own country’s sacrifice, Barack Obama didn’t show up at the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor to remember the 2,403 Americans who were killed and the 1,178 who were wounded. He didn’t remind a nation that, in a sneak attack on a peaceful Sunday Morning a few hours before church services, 353 Imperial Japanese fighter planes, bombers and torpedo planes sank or damaged eight battleships, three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship and one mine-layer; and destroyed 188 U.S. aircraft. He didn’t use the occasion to remind a nation that the Japanese attack prompted Nazi Germany, on December 11, 1941, to declare war on the United States. He didn’t remind a nation that the Japanese war machine killed and tortured millions. http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP3.HTM He did not discuss horrific Japanese atrocities that few Americans could even begin to comprehend. http://listverse.com/2014/05/06/10-japanese-atrocities-from-world-war-ii/ And he didn’t reveal that, during the last months of World War II, Japan was preparing for a long-distance attack on the United States. Code-named “Cherry Blossoms at Night,” the plan called for the use of airplanes to spread plague over Southern California at night. Finalized as late as March 26, 1945, three Aichi M6A Seiran aircraft loaded with plague-infected fleas were poised to drop the plague via balloon bombs, or simply to crash. Either way, the plague would infect and kill tens of thousands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cherry_Blossoms_at_Night  Barack Obama didn’t remind Americans of their sacrifice to end one of the most barbarous, cold-blooded, malevolent regimes in recorded history. No, he instead preferred to honor that empire’s loss at Hiroshima at this precise time — during the observance of our country’s most revered Memorial. He could have visited Japan at any time, but he chose NOW. This decision, this action is as telling as any fingerprint. It exposes Obama’s deformed, contemptuous view of America. And unwittingly, by consistently pushing that  view, he has transformed American politics. Unwittingly, Obama’s disdain and insolence for the American way, unchecked and unchallenged by Washington’s political establishment, has fueled a smoldering resentment and awakened the silent majority. And that majority has found its voice in one Donald Trump. The experts still haven’t figured it out. The ruling political class thinks Trump’s popularity is some sort of celebrity driven, mindless hysteria, rooted in irrational anger. They fixate on Trump’s boorish behavior and boorish language. They challenge his outlandish promises. They simply can’t see the forest. They continue to make the mistake of looking at the man, not at what the man represents. Donald Trump is everything that Barack Obama isn’t. Trump is America at its core. He is the industrialist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Ambitious, brash, bullish and driven to win. As were his ancestors. He’s the inventor, the engineer, the pioneer family, the nurse, the war hero, the educator, the builder, the dreamer, the doer. He embodies what  the people hunger for, what they know has been lost — the unflagging American Spirit — having the faith and the heart to be big, bold, competitive, exceptional and unapologetic in the pursuit of greatness. By stark contrast, Barack Hussein Obama is the antithesis of everything American. The world has seen what that America looks like — weakened, demeaned, diminished. They saw it in action with Obama at Hiroshima.

You prefer to remember another President in action who believed in and loved his country for its goodness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be8mdM6z2CA

Donald Trump may not be the next US President. But he has permanently changed the political landscape and has reignited a uniquely American fire.