Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour One.

What on earth are we going to talk about today?

Welcome. It is Eric Erickson here across the nation. The phone number 8779773-725, should you wish to be on the program.

Obviously, we've got to start there with, well, the audio.

Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests and my fellow citizens, America's comeback starts right now.

Two years ago, when I left office, the United States stood ready for its golden age. Our nation was at the pinnacle of power, prosperity and prestige,

towering above all rivals, vanquishing all enemies,

and striding into the future, confident and so strong.

In four short years, everybody was doing great.

Men, women, African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans,

everybody was thriving like never before.

One more?

The vicious ISIS caliphate, which no president was able to conquer, was decimated by me and our great

warriors in less than three weeks, and al-Baghdadi, its founder, was hunted down and killed.

North Korea had not launched a single long-range missile since my summit

with Chairman Kim Jong-un nearly three years before we developed a relationship and that's a good

thing, not a bad thing. It's a good thing. Very good thing, actually. Because look at what's happening today.

My opponents made me out to be a warmonger and just a terrible person who would immediately go into war.

They said during the 2016 campaign that if he becomes president, there will never be a war within weeks.

And we will have wars like you've never seen before.

It will happen immediately.

And yet, I've gone decades, decades without a war, the first president to do it for that long a period.

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