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Opinion | Donald Trump is putting America first and is the first president in history to risk his presidency and legacy for working-class families. For that, he deserves much credit.

Everyone is angry at Donald Trump.

He keeps snatching away the honey pot; our NATO allies are incensed they have to provide more for their own defense, DOGE is axing taxpayer monies flowing illicitly to Democrats, and the president’s tariff broadside has exposed trading imbalances that benefit everybody but the United States.

Trump risks it all, takes on the world with tariffs and puts America firstTrump hasn’t just stirred the pot – he’s turned it over and stomped it into smithereens. He is putting America first and is the first president in history to risk his presidency and legacy for working-class families.

For that, he deserves much credit.

Here’s a fact: with $37 trillion in federal debt, up from $23 trillion in 2019, the United States can no longer act as global Sugar Daddy, giving out treats to the entire world.

For decades our western allies relied on America to defend them against hostile totalitarian regimes while they spent their money on their own citizens, stitching together costly safety nets which included free healthcare and generous pensions.

In his first term, Trump called out the freeloaders like Germany which had perennially failed to meet their NATO obligation to spend 2% of GDP on defense. Europeans were horrified, as they so often are by crass American bluntness.

But slowly, begrudgingly, they have upped their outlays; the Ukraine war has driven home the necessity of greater self-sufficiency, as has more pressure from President Trump. It’s about time.

At home, the DOGE team is exposing not only hundreds of billions of dollars of wasteful government spending, but also the billions of taxpayer dollars craftily sent to innocent-sounding NGOs which then funnel those funds to Democrat-aligned activist groups.

Moreover, DOGE is promising to modernize our antiquated federal government; good for them.

Donald Trump has railed about the U.S. being unfairly treated by our trading partners for decades. Thanks to him, 10 years ago the country’s view of trade deals changed. Democrats had promoted them until Hillary Clinton ran against Trump in 2016, even as the number of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. shrank from a peak of almost 20 million in 1979 to only 12 million.

Donald Trump is putting America first and is the first president in history to risk his presidency and legacy for working-class families. For that, he deserves much credit