President Donald J. Trump is the most powerful man on Earth. World powers bow down before him. But the one thing that he cannot do is make his Democrat-Left critics happy.
If Trump wakes up tomorrow at 6:00 a.m., they will complain that he is hyperactive and endangers his own health by not getting enough sleep. If he heeds their advice and rises the following day at 7:00 a.m., they will moan that he is a lazy slacker who is lying in bed when he should be in the Oval Office.
Trump cannot satisfy these people.
For the latest example of this phenomenon, just recall his opponents’ furious howls at his policy of “family separation,” whereby Trump monstrously arrested illegal aliens and kept their children safe elsewhere. Never mind that families get separated every single time that police arrest a father or mother and keep them from their kids. Seven days a week, judges put criminal suspects in jail or sentence convicts to prison, thus pulling families apart.
Trump did not pioneer this practice. American dads and moms have been tossed behind bars while their children wept outside since July 4, 1776.
Nonetheless, remember how hard Trump’s critics hammered him on this point in 2018.
•That June 30, then-Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., blasted Trump’s “cruel and unnecessary family separation and family incarceration policies.”
•“The President’s zero-tolerance immigration policy cruelly tore children from their parents,” Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, lamented on Nov. 30.
•That Dec. 22, Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., denounced “the barbaric family separation policy that tore thousands of children from their parents this summer.”
Now, Trump’s enemies are pounding his head in because Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not separate a family.
On Jan. 20, ICE agents in Minneapolis arrested Ecuadoran illegal alien Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias. He and his son—Liam Conejo Ramos, age 5—are being held jointly at a federal facility in Dilley, Texas, just as the father requested. The Trump administration’s failure to separate these two and its decision to keep them together threw these very same people into an uncontrolled rage.
•“This is f— up and it doesn’t make anyone safer,” now-Sen. Gallego bellowed.
•“I am aware of reports that five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos may be in San Antonio,” Castro declared via X. “My staff and I are doing everything we can to locate him, check on his safety and demand his release.” Of course, this would trigger the very family separation that Castro previously excoriated.
• Gomez roared: “Trump, ICE and CBP don’t see these families as people, and that’s exactly how they’re treating them.”
Beyond Democrats’ Olympic-grade talent for self-contradiction, there also seems to be far less to this story than the Trump-hating Left wants Americans to believe.
As the Department of Homeland Security explained Thursday via X, when ICE agents tried to arrest the father as he sat in his car, he “fled on foot—abandoning his child.” ICE officers then tried to deliver the son to his mother. “She refused to accept custody of the child,” DHS continued. “The father told officers he wanted the child to remain with him.”
DHS added: “Following the mother’s abandonment of the child, officers abided by the father’s wishes to keep the child with him.” DHS then arranged a father and child reunion. The elder and younger Conejos are together in the Dilley Detention Center, near San Antonio, Texas.
Despite these largely exculpatory details, the Washington Post’s Philip Kennicott on Thursday pummeled Trump while pondering a photograph of the son after his father’s arrest—“staring at the back of a truck” while looking “bewildered and terrified” and enduring “the brutal treatment of adults.” The Post’s summary of the 1,868 comments that followed Kennicott’s histrionic essay equates this picture with “historical images that have evoked public empathy and action, such as those from Nazi Germany and the Vietnam War.”
Yet another week, yet another “Trump = Hitler” reference.
Yaaaaawn.
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