George Washington, 293 years old today...
... as his successor President Donald J. Trump follows in his footsteps...
Our first President George Washington would, today, have turned 293 years old, which, as we learned in recent days, would still not qualify as the oldest Social Security recipient.
No wonder President Donald J. Trump, General George Washington’s successor 236 years later, is held in such high esteem by the voters, as reflected in recent YouGov.com polls.
Trump is cleaning house governmentally, spearheaded by DOGE head Elon Musk, so that our bloated bureaucracy will become a lean, mean fighting machine aimed at “making America great again”— the vision Washington had as he “forged the nation” to become that shining city on the hill, as beautifully portrayed in George Washington II: Forging of a Nation (1986)—a compelling miniseries about Washington, who, as the first President of the United States of America, spent eight years trying to run the country, amidst many trials.
Now it’s President Trump’s turn.
And, while the United States might not have won the inaugural 4 Nations Face-Off Championship hosted in Boston on Thursday, February 20, by the National Hockey League, America stands tall as its new president is a course-correcting at a furious pace vis-a-vis reversing the border invasion, restoring energy-dominance, transforming foreign policy fiascos, and so much more.
And, like the NHL, he is doing it with class.
During the pre-game festivities, Team USA hockey legend Mike Eruzione honored the late Johnny Gaudreau, the “Miracle on Ice” captain donning Gaudreau’s No. 13 Team USA jersey, as he swirled around the ice.
Then, too, President Trump graced the nation as he spoke from his heart to the nation in his Second Inaugural address, telling us the “Golden Age of America begins right now” and delivered with a bevy of executive orders actualizing his words. There is nothing worse than the talk, talk, talk of Washington pols. Trump is doing.
And, on this, George Washington’s birthday, he is doing it guided by great American giants, namely, the Father of our Nation. Indeed, he is in the mold of these giants.
Mary Claire Kendall is author of Oasis: Conversion Stories of Hollywood Legends. The sequel, Oasis of Faith: The Souls Behind the Billboard—Barrymore, Cagney, Tracy, Stewart, Guinness & Lemmon, was published summer 2024. Her biography of Ernest Hemingway, titled Hemingway’s Faith, was published Christmas 2024 by Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing. She writes a regular bi-monthly column for Aleteia on legends of Hollywood and hidden screen gems.