This week on The Crawford Stand, Don Crawford examines the bold vision of Donald J. Trump as he returns to the presidency with a mission to radically reshape the federal government. With a team of business-minded leaders—including Elon Musk, Linda McMahon, and Pete Hegseth—Trump plans to slash bureaucracy, cut spending, and restore constitutional values. Can his administration dismantle the entrenched “swamp” and reignite America’s economic and cultural strength? Tune in as we explore the promises, policies, and challenges ahead for Team Trump in 2025.
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The Crawford Stand. This week the president of Crawford Media Group, Don Crawford, is examining Team Trump, leading America back to sanity and common sense.
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Donald J. Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States with both a campaign and a promise to the American people that he and his administration would bring change, fundamental and systemic change to the America we the people love and live in. That massive fundamental change he promised would occur under the plan to disrupt and innovate, a mammoth behemoth of a federal government that had become massive and mediocre in so many ways. This massive federal government had become addicted to the status quo, determined to protect and defend the government and its addiction to processes rather than results. and to champion the Democratic Party ideals of radicalism, woke, diversity, equity, and inclusion, you know, DEI, and to the financial priorities of tax and spend. Tax and spend. That had produced an American mediocrity, a lack of innovation and idea flow, and the loss of respect for this once great country. Trump promised to change that. radically change it, change it back, make America great again. Our once great federal government with presidents like Reagan and Bush had become incredibly expensive. Federal agencies and bureaucracies had become massive and had developed a culture of resistance so that, in effect, those agencies and bureaucrats, the so-called fourth estate, boy, is that a powerful one, had produced a culture of resistance to both Congress and the House and the Senate and even the President himself. They often defied the Supreme Court of the United States, this swamp did, and this massive bureaucracy which President Trump labeled the swamp, he did that, Donald Trump called them the swamp, was determined to derail Trump and his grand plan of disruption and innovation for America no matter the cost. But President Trump understands that, and it makes the Trump plan even more bold and aggressive in order to not only disrupt and change these agencies and bureaucrats, but wherever possible, to eliminate them. Amen to that. Trump and his chosen people realized that the slogan coined under the Ronald Reagan administration was so very true. That is, that People are policy. People are policy. That is very, very accurate. Trump realized that bureaucrats and members of Congress are slaves to process and the status quo preservation, and not results. They care little for the American people, but only the philosophy and policies which advance bureaucracy, and protect the bureaucratic status quo. As such, these bureaucrats have been primary drivers in increasing the cost of government to almost $8 trillion annually. I can’t comprehend that number, can you? $8 trillion. And my fellow Americans, our national debt, which we the people owe, it’s not an American debt, it’s a people debt, because of their spending is the staggering sum, get this now, of some $37 trillion. Oh, my soul, $37 trillion. There is simply no way a debt like that could ever be repaid unless there were radical, fundamental changes to America and democracy and freedom and the end of the lifestyle we all now so readily assume and thoroughly enjoy. Enter Elon Musk and, at the beginning of Trump’s administration, Vivek Ramaswamy, now running for governor of Ohio. These men were called upon by President Trump to reimagine the federal government, to cut spending and reduce debt. Trump has asked Musk to bring a sense of entrepreneurship and appreciation for results. and to examine all expenditures by the federal government to determine the cost-benefit of every governmental expenditure and the results or the lack thereof which those expenditures and investments produce. Musk will head the so-called DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency. Government efficiency. It’s almost like an oxymoron. Government will become more efficient. financially structured, and results will triumph over process. And so much of American bureaucracy will be eliminated. Oh, thank the good Lord for that one. Or at least reduced, or otherwise radically changed with brand new personnel. Oh, what a blessing that will be for we the people. Of the now approaching $8 trillion of an American annual budget, Musk and Trump believe they can reduce that budget by as much as $2 trillion, or at or even more than 25% of the existing federal budget. Boy, that’s hard to believe, but it would be wonderful if that would happen. If so, that would be such a boon to the finances of our country, and the financial muscle of America could be restored in this great country and worldwide, in four years or even less of the Trump administration. Make it happen, President Trump. Please, make it happen. And he is determined to make that happen. Many of his appointments and nominations and people with whom he will work are business people. That’s so much better in my view than the old academics of the Democrats. They’re CEOs. They’re bold entrepreneurs who are determined to make things happen. to produce results and to do away with process and mediocrity. Such a one as Linda McMahon. She’s the one that built the largest entertainment enterprises in the entire world. A lot of it was wrestling. She will run the Department of Education. That department needs to be downsized and the authority it now has given back to the individual states. And then there’s Doug Burgum. Doug will run the Department of the Interior. a man with a strong business mentality, and then there is Chris Wright at the Department of Energy, and Scott Besant at the Department of the Treasury, and Howard Lutnick at the Department of Commerce. These four men create a fearsome foursome whose entrepreneurial skills have created billions of dollars in wealth in private business And they will now create trillions in economic growth and government savings inside the Trump cabinet and for our great country. Oh, how great that will be. How great that will be. Under the Obama and Biden administrations, huge numbers of government officials were addicted to working from home. And some have even abandoned the cities they were assigned to for early retirement homes elsewhere. They just do what they want. Trump intends to target those do-nothings for a massive cost-cutting departure. And Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, will bring a new mindset and new priorities and a new way of thinking and evaluation to that critical department, critical for the defense of America, which lags, which has now become woke. and liberal and radical at the top. Why? Why? And far more concerned with social matters rather than those of military and defense of our great country. Go for it, Mr. Hegseth. Make it happen. And then there is the border problem. We all know about that. Our country is plagued with perhaps as many as 11 million illegal immigrants. Oh, we don’t dare call them that. that’s exactly what they are, who have entered our country unlawfully. Unlawfully. Trump intends to close the border. And not only that, but deport many of those illegal immigrants, especially the criminals. And he has pledged to deport any and every individual with any kind of criminal record in the millions. How does this happen? Thank you, Joe Biden. Trump has appointed one Tom Homan, a no-nonsense businessman, who will aggressively carry out this plan. Homan intends to eliminate, even crush, sanctuary cities and states like New Jersey. And Homan has promised the prosecution of recalcitrant officials, those who violate American law with impunity, and he has threatened cities and states with a complete loss of federal funds if they resist. May it be so? May it be so? The reestablishment of the rule of law. It is time, my fellow Americans, to use the full force of the law to punish state and city officials who violate those laws with impunity. Americans know that the Biden inflation continues. The Biden inflation. Prices are at an all-time high. So many American families are struggling financially. Trump, Musk, Besant, and so many others in his cabinet are determined to attack and eliminate inflation wherever possible. The Trump administration intends to unleash America’s vast energy resources. Amen to that. And to turn the regulatory and permitting processes positive. encouraging the resumption of oil and gas leases, and creating investment certainty for the energy industry, which has been radically suppressed by Biden and company for the last four years. Why? Why? The resumed mining and drilling will unleash a new era of energy dominance that will lessen the impact of China, Russia, Iran, and Venezuela. Trump will also encourage the innovative development of clean nuclear energy. Clean and safe nuclear energy. Boy, we really need that. President Trump has also pledged to do away with CRT, a critical race theory. Awful. And DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Do away with it. And ESG. Environment, social, government. Oh, brother, where did this stuff come from? And transgenderism. Ah, may it be so. May it be so. Women will not have to worry about men using female bathrooms or competing with women in sports. They won’t have to worry about a man claiming to be a woman and competing against real women. In fact, all vestiges of extreme liberalism and socialism will be done away with. And the sooner the better, President Trump. And eliminated from American culture as much as possible. Amen to that. Don’t you agree? Don’t you agree with that? And core liberties, constitutional liberties and rights and freedoms and values and traditional American culture will once again re-emerge, and hopefully reign supreme. As a loyal American citizen, I am more than delighted with these promises, and I just hope and pray, I hope and pray that Donald Trump follows through and this radical change back, this determination to make America great again, does in fact occur, and this good man is off to one great start. Let’s pray for him, my fellow Americans, and let’s support him. Trump knows that he has four years and no more to accomplish these goals. He also knows that the first 100 days of a presidency is the most important, and he intends to get as much done through executive orders, on the one hand, and the cooperation of a friendly Congress, House, and Senate on the other, and working with that Republican-controlled House and Senate, to pass the legislation needed to accomplish these goals as well. But there are Republicans who seem to be skeptical and who may resist the Trump agenda and in some cases just be a stumbling block to all these good things which really need to happen. Oh, I hope not. I hope not. But achieving these fantastic goals can be accomplished. And much of the Trump agenda will become reality. And it will become law. And America will begin to change back, even in this very year, 2025. Personally, I thank the Lord for that. And I hope you do too. Many believe that Donald Trump, within an inch of being assassinated, oh my Lord, that poor man, was divinely spared to provide for America one last chance to be the beacon on a hill. the true land of freedom and liberty, the land of the Constitution and the rule of law, and the nation where, as from the beginning, freedom rings. Freedom rings. And we the people should do everything to support Donald Trump and make this grand plan to change America back happen. Make America great again, my fellow Americans. Let us make it great again under the leadership of Donald J. Trump. MAGA. M-A-G-A. Make America Great Again.
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