OPINION
It was a bitterly cold morning when we loaded up on the U.S. Secret Service buses before sunrise. I had just finished a speech at Liberty University the night before, and my mom drove me through the night to get to Washington, D.C. just in time for the sunrise.
We were in the final hours of Donld J. Trump’s first term in office as our bus drove through the gates at Joint Base Andrews and dropped us off at the hangar where the nation's 45th president was soon to arrive.
As the Inauguration festivities began a few blocks away for the 46th President, the 45th president’s Marine One touched down on the tarmac and out walked the president, first lady, and his entire family.
I waved, shook hands with his children, and hugged staffers who had become friends during his four years in the White House.
But now it was all over.
As Mr. Trump walked up to the podium to address the 200 or so friends and family gathered on the tarmac to wish him well, I looked down at my watch to see that he had minutes left in his presidency.
If he went his typical rally speech length, we still would be standing there as the clock struck noon and his presidency ended.
But the president kept it short and brief. He thanked his family, staff, and supporters. And then he made a comment that jumped out to me at the time:
"So, just a goodbye. We love you. We will be back in some form."
Then, just like that, he boarded Air Force One, waved goodbye, and flew home to Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.
"We will be back in some form."
What did he mean? Aides around me all looked at each other confused.
A comeback at this point in his career was impossible . . . right?
That day, as Biden was sworn in, pundits began writing Trump’s political obituary.
In the four years since then, he has been impeached, raided, arrested, and shot.
The political class wanted you to ignore him and pass the torch to a young governor or senator. Thank him for his service and ask him to ride off into the Mar-a-Lago sunset.
But that’s not what Donald Trump did.
That same man, the same one who Congress impeached twice, the same one who had the FBI go through his underwear drawer, the same one who posed for a mugshot, and the same one who had a bullet pierce through his ear, stood and raised his right hand to be sworn in as the nation's 47th president this week.
Only in America!
He had done it! He had defied all the odds!
The comeback kid is back, and not only had he returned to the Oval Office, but hope returned as well!
Monday marked "Morning in America again!"
Just like Ronald Reagan, who first used that line, came as a beacon of prosperity after four disastrous years of Carter, Trump returns as a beacon of light after an even more disastrous four years of Biden!
Common sense has returned! Decency has returned! Patriotism has returned!
America is back and now a global awareness is emergent, that we no longer will be trampled on. A new sheriff is in town and if his first 12 hours in office are any indication of how hard, and fast, he’ll work to return America to its glory days, then the world better look out!
The orange man with a loudmouth on Twitter accomplished more in one afternoon with a sharpie than Biden and Harris did in four whole years.
- That’s why the people elected him overwhelmingly.
- That’s why he won every swing state.
- That’s why the farewell ceremony wasn’t the last time he’d stand behind a podium with the presidential seal.
Americans know he will get to work! Promises made, promises kept doesn’t just look good on a bumper sticker, it’s his motto, and one he's bringing to life, in a most tangible way.
Brilyn Hollyhand is Chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) Youth Advisory Council and bestselling author of "One Generation Away: Why Now is the Time to Restore American Freedom."
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