VDH: Trump Makes ‘Experts’ Eat Their Words with Record-Breaking Three Weeks

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🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Trump has revitalized military recruitment and turned the armed forced from “fat” to “fit,” reshaped America’s foreign alliances, and delivered bold results that no one expected—and many actively warned against. Victor Davis Hanson breaks down why, in the face of naysayers and “experts” claiming it couldn’t be done, this even more of a momentous feat on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” “ The economy did not crash or crater. Wall Street is at all-time high. Stock prices, job growth unexpectedly—that’s a word have to use because the Left always says it’s going to get very angry. The angry Left. And they’re very angry and they say, ‘It’s not going to work.’ And then they have to say, ‘Well, it worked.’” “ The idea that all of their Ph.D.s, all the letters after their names, all of their ZIP codes, all of their prestige meant nothing. That here we have a billionaire builder from New York, with a Queens accent, who’s transactional. And he was able to create a revolutionary change in culture, in social life, in economics, on foreign policy, on border security. And we can see the fruits of that in just three weeks, contrary to what everybody told us. It’s startling. It’s embarrassing for them.” 00:00 Trump's Recent Achievements 00:14 Military and Recruitment Successes 01:42 Economic Triumphs Under Trump 02:18 Cultural and Social Shifts 03:11 Defying the Experts 04:28 Trump's Unprecedented Success 05:58 Conclusion 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 👉If you can’t get enough of Victor Davis Hanson from The Daily Signal, subscribe to his official YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273 👉He’s also the host of “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” available wherever you prefer to watch or listen. Links to the show and exclusive content are available on his website: https://victorhanson.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.7	Donald Trump's big last three weeks in praise. When you look at foreign policy, he eliminated
0:36.9	the Iranian nuclear threat without
0:39.0	widening the war. He's now turning his attention to Ukraine and getting Putin to make a deal.
0:44.6	The military, we were told, could not recruit. We're just going to be 45,000 recruit short. No,
0:50.3	we just needed a new president. Met our recruiting goals up to 50,000, some days, 10,000 people a day.
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0:57.0	He went over there in the NATO leadership, called him Daddy,
1:00.0	and they agreed to a 5% target of their GDP and investments in defense.
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