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Simply over 5 years in the past, the world watched in anguish as Notre Dame Cathedral, some of the potent symbols of Christendom, was engulfed in flames. Not lengthy after, Donald Trump would lose the 2020 election to Joe Biden, launching some of the unpopular presidencies in trendy historical past.
However, this weekend on the banks of the Seine, this superb Medieval edifice and tribute to the Blessed Mom, stands in full restore, able to information the devoted for an additional thousand years.
And who’s there to honor the event? None apart from President-elect Donald Trump.
TRUMP RETURNS TO EUROPE FOR FIRST TIME FOLLOWING ELECTION WIN FOR NOTRE DAME’S REOPENING
Although the forty fifth, and shortly to be forty seventh occupant of the Oval Workplace received’t be sworn in for an additional 5 weeks, for all of the world it seems not solely that Trump has already taken over, however that the problems he was elected to handle already appear to be bettering.

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After months of sturm und drang over Trump’s tariff coverage, the specter of a 25 % levy on international items has already led to some optimistic indicators of compromise from Mexico on the border, and to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau showing at Mar-a-Lago, if not fairly to kiss the ring, no less than to beg to keep away from the tariffs.
Trump will meet with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris this weekend.
In Ukraine, the place Biden’s fecklessness and gradual drip of weapons has helped to create a meat grinder of a established order, President Volodomyr Zelenskyy is, for the primary time, speaking a couple of peace deal during which Russia retains some territory and Ukraine reserves the best to hitch NATO.
That is mild on the finish of a darkish and lethal tunnel.
Within the halls of Congress, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, Trump’s pied pipers of the Division of Authorities Effectivity, are on a allure offensive, wooing even some Democrats to their cost-cutting trigger.

Elon Musk, Co-Chair of the newly introduced Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), arrives on Capitol Hill on Dec. 5, 2024 in Washington, D.C.; Vivek Ramaswamy, chairman and co-founder of Try Asset Administration, arrives to satisfy with lawmakers on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (Left: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photographs; Proper: Al Drago/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs)
Even the soon-to-be President’s cupboard picks, after predictable freak-outs from the liberal media, are properly on observe, together with Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel, tapped for the Protection Division and FBI respectively, who’ve to this point survived a tsunami of smears.
Because the second Trump presidency zips down the runway making ready for takeoff, someplace off in a ditch lies the smoldering carcass of Joe Biden’s Hindenburg of a tenure in workplace.
On Friday, an abjectly humiliated White Home Press Secretary Karinne Jean Pierre tried to elucidate away her and her boss’ blatant lie that he wouldn’t pardon his son Hunter. Apparently, we had been advised, it wasn’t a lie, he simply modified his thoughts.
Okay, KJP…
Let’s be clear, any press secretary with an oz. of dignity would have resigned after being paraded earlier than the American public to deceive them time and again and over, however there she was, on the podium, being paid by the American individuals, and nonetheless mendacity.
The Biden administration is reportedly exploring ways in which it may use the weeks main as much as Trump’s inauguration to sabotage his incoming administration, together with preemptive pardons for potential targets of reliable investigation and pumping out tons of international assist.
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These final minute efforts to thwart Trump will come to nothing as a result of, for all intents and functions, Joe Biden is barely nonetheless even the president. This week on the White Home tree lighting ceremony he seemed just like the Crypt Keeper, and his flickering administration has all of the vitality of a morgue.

U.S. President Joe Biden prepares to depart the 102nd Nationwide Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony on the Ellipse on December 5, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Photographs)
It was in French Cathedrals through the late eleventh Century that Peter the Hermit and Pope City II preached in favor of the First Campaign, uniting the West in a approach that had by no means occurred earlier than, securing its permanence towards international threats.
Saturday, earlier than the hovering spires and flying buttresses, Donald Trump takes a spot in that historical past, in that protection of the values that our ancestors introduced from Europe to American shores.
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Few individuals anticipated that Donald Trump would win the election so convincingly, far fewer predicted that such a victory would result in optimism and unity, and but, Trump is having fun with the very best favorability of his political profession, and it merely seems like issues are trying up.
In simply 5 years, the individuals of France restored their beloved Notre Dame, not with trendy twists, however simply because it was, because it has all the time been. Trump solely has 4 years to make his repairs to the cathedral we name america. However one factor is evident. He’s off to a stable head begin.
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