Hello, it's Miranda with a mini episode of Podforce One to kick off your Christmas week.

This feature is a little more topical and relevant to my day-to-day job as a columnist for the New York Post.

Today I offer a roundup of Trump administration efforts this year to fix the mess

Joe Biden left behind and the challenges ahead to future-proof America for the next time

the Nutsu wing of the Democrat Party takes power. There was a lot of sneering about the president's prime time address to the nation

last week when he trumpeted his achievements for the year. It was too loud, it was too partisan,

it was too boastful, it was too Trumpian. It interrupted the finale of Survivor.

Oh no.

But Donald Trump was right to count the ways his administration has delivered on its promises this year.

Nobody else will.

I inherited a mess, he said, and I'm fixing it.

That was Trump's theme, with a modest pitch for an optimistic outlook in

2006. On Thursday, the day after his speech, Fates smiled upon him when inflation figures

came in at 2.7%, well below the 3.1% predicted by experts and below the long-term US average.

Democrats were devastated, but you probably didn't hear the good news because only news that hurts Trump counts. And if you did hear it,

you would have had to wade through all sorts of qualifications and caveats crafted by grinchers

in newsrooms across the land. The media gatekeepers suddenly become

sticklers for footnotes when there's a risk that Trump might be shown in a positive light.

The problem with governing competently is that people quickly take it for granted. When was the last

time anyone talked about the border? The Washington Post

last week bemoaned the changes implemented in Trump's first year to rein in the federal

government bureaucracy. So you know they were good. Quosh, entire agencies were deleted,

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