In the world of American politics, few politicians are as unintelligent as Senator Tommy Tuberville. A former football coach turned politician, he seems to be unaware just how unintelligent he is, or just doesn’t care.
On a recent Fox Business with Larry Kudlow, Tuberville was asked to grade Donald Trump’s second term. Tuberville skipped right past “pass/fail” and dove straight into fantasy and delusion.
Larry Kudlow, Fox host and cheerleader for all things Trump, teed it up with a softball: “How’s the new Trump era going?”
Tuberville, without flinching, swung for the absurd. “A+!” he said. “What else can he do, Larry?” A reasonable question – if by “what else,” you mean chaos, economic head-scratching, and a uniquely Trumpian blend of buffoonery and policy free fall.
According to Tuberville – and just about every Republican you might ask – Trump inherited a “total mess” – presumably from the same Biden administration that oversaw record job growth, and cooling inflation. In MAGA Land, Trump has always been the economic Messiah, saving the nation with his tariffs, deportations, and patriotic posturing. The Senator didn’t provide rubric for the A+, but it likely included categories like number of times saying “fake news” and “ability to hold a sharpie upright.”
Tuberville’s economic analysis reads like it was cribbed from a fortune cookie at Mar-A-Lago. He regularly bemoans the horrors of “Bidenomics,” calling it a “disaster,” while simultaneously hailing Trump’s economic genius – despite tariffs that tanked the agricultural markets, and trade war tantrums that rattled allies and adversaries alike.
Never mind that under Trump’s first term, job growth slowed ( even pre-pandemic ), deficits ballooned, and the stock market was juiced by the very Fed policies that Republicans once pretended to loathe. If hypocrisy were a sport, Tuberville would have a national championship.
Perhaps the most baffling part is not the A+ rating, but the utter lack of policy substance. In his first one hundred+ days, Trump hasn’t done a single policy or proposal that would benefit anyone, not even his MAGA base. He is systematically slashing any government program that benefits the disabled and the elderly, all in the name of “fraud,” and “waste,” while adding billions to the Pentagon budget, ignoring, or just blissfully unaware that they have failed audit after audit.
Tuberville offers no details of how Trump is making America great again, nor does any MAGA Republican. No economic metrics, just a warm blanket of MAGA nostalgia. Trump, in his telling, is already fixing wars ( all of them, apparently ), kicking out migrants like it’s an Olympic sport, and slashing taxes for his wealthy donors with the finesse of a game show host.
All of this within one hundred days. Somewhere, George Washington must be spinning in his powdered wig.
In a time when facts are under assault, and politicians like Tuberville treat interviews as if they’re pep rallies, it’s more important than ever to look past the slogans and grade based on facts, not vibes. Give us policy, not platitudes. Give us reality, not reruns of 2020 campaign rallies.
If Tuberville wants to give Trump an A+, that’s his right. But we reserve the right to call BS on the BS.
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