One man standing at the podium while the nations of the world play his score

Ask yourself a simple question. When, in your lifetime, has one man restructured the entire global economy, ended multiple wars, collapsed illegal border crossings to historic lows, and redirected the oil tanker fleets of the world toward American shores, all inside sixteen months, and been met by the opposing political party with only one vote of support?

Senator John Fetterman is that one exception, and the fact that a single name covers the entire list of Democrats willing to support any of it tells you something is very wrong with the rest of them. A man I once dismissed has turned out to be the only rational voice on that side of the aisle. Everyone else has lined up to oppose, obstruct, litigate, protest, smear, and delay, no matter what the policy is, no matter who it helps, no matter what it costs the country.

If you want to see that hatred for yourself, all you had to do was watch the most recent State of the Union address. The president stood before the nation and recognized the U.S. hockey team that had just won Olympic gold. Not a single Democrat stood. Not one. He honored cancer survivors who were in the chamber as his guests. Not a single Democrat applauded. He paid tribute to the American soldiers who had been shot during the Venezuela operation, young men who nearly gave their lives for this country. The Democrats sat in stony silence. It was one of the most embarrassing displays I have ever seen in American politics. I do not care how much you despise a man. When you sit through honors for Olympic champions, cancer survivors, and wounded soldiers because you cannot bring yourself to clap at anything associated with him, you are no longer hating him. You are hating America. That is what the country watched that night. And the country noticed.

Why all this? That is the question this article is really about. Not just the accomplishments, though the list is astonishing. The list is the evidence. The question is what the list reveals.

Five Accomplishments That Alone Would Define a Presidency

There are more than fifty major accomplishments worth naming, and I will list them further down. But five of them are so consequential that any one of them alone would be the defining headline of a normal presidency. He has delivered all five in sixteen months.

1. He Redirected the Oil Tanker Fleet of the World Toward America

When Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, the entire global economy tilted. Twenty percent of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas flows through that narrow waterway. Europe was weeks away from a systemic jet fuel shortage. Japan began tapping strategic reserves. Pakistan scrambled for alternate shipping routes. The price of crude surged, and nations that had taken cheap Persian Gulf oil for granted suddenly faced a disaster.

President Trump responded with a naval blockade of Iranian ports and a simple message to the nations of the world. Come to America. We have what you need. Within days, one hundred and twenty-one empty oil tankers turned toward the U.S. Gulf Coast, sixty-eight of them ultra-large crude carriers capable of holding two million barrels each. Shipping data later showed a total of one hundred and seventy-one vessels inbound. American crude exports are projected to reach 5.2 million barrels per day in April 2026, up about a third from March. The entire center of gravity of global energy shifted in a single week. One man, from one office, gave a single instruction, and the fleets of the world changed course.

One hundred and twenty-one empty tankers turned toward America in a single week

2. He Collapsed Illegal Border Crossings to Historic Lows

This one is not a statistic on a page. It is lives. Every part of American life that has been strained for the past decade connects back to the open border. The fentanyl epidemic that killed tens of thousands of Americans a year. The cartel trafficking of children and women. The housing shortage that drove prices out of reach for young families. The wage stagnation caused by millions of illegal workers willing to accept almost nothing. The election integrity crisis caused by millions of non-citizens being quietly added to voter rolls in jurisdictions that refused to verify citizenship. The rise in violent crime in cities that had declared themselves sanctuaries for people who had already broken federal law the moment they arrived.

Every single one of those problems fed directly from one policy failure, and the previous administration was not failing by accident. They needed the crossings. The Democratic Party has depended on illegal population flows for its electoral math, its cheap labor constituencies, and its endless demands for more federal spending on social services the border crisis itself created. That is why they have fought so viciously against every enforcement action, every deportation, every closure of a loophole. They are not defending compassion. They are defending a political machine that runs on illegal immigration.

President Trump closed it anyway. The border was not a policy debate for him. It was an open wound in the country, and he stitched it shut. Crossings collapsed to the lowest levels in modern history within months of his return to office. Fentanyl deaths have already begun to fall. Wages for entry-level American workers are rising for the first time in a generation. Housing pressure in border states is easing. None of these are accidents. They are what happens when a nation is finally allowed to have a border.

3. He Ended Iran's Nuclear Threat

On February 28, 2026, joint U.S. and Israeli forces launched Operation Epic Fury, striking Iranian nuclear and naval facilities simultaneously. Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed. Iran's navy was, in the president's own words, left lying at the bottom of the sea, with one hundred and fifty-eight ships destroyed. The nuclear program that had threatened the region for decades and that three previous administrations had refused to confront directly was crippled in a single coordinated operation.

No American president has done that. Not one. The Iranian regime that sponsored terrorism across four continents, funded Hezbollah, armed the Houthis, and openly threatened to wipe Israel off the map has been brought to the negotiating table not with concessions or nuclear deals that quietly funded their weapons programs, but with the consequences of their own choices. That is what deterrence actually looks like when a president is willing to use it.

4. He Stood Up the Department of Government Efficiency

DOGE is not a budget cut. It is a restructuring of the administrative state itself. For sixty years, the permanent bureaucracy in Washington has operated as an independent branch of government, unelected, unaccountable, self-perpetuating, and quietly hostile to every president who did not serve its interests. DOGE is the first serious effort in American history to take that structure apart.

Billions in waste have been identified and cut. Entire programs that did nothing but employ political allies have been shut down. Agencies that had functioned as slush funds for connected contractors and foreign aid kickbacks have been audited, exposed, and in some cases dissolved. The data that has come out of DOGE in the past year would have ended dozens of careers in any previous era. That it has not yet is a measure of how thoroughly the system has protected itself. What has already been exposed is only the beginning.

5. He Moved Against Maduro and Cleaned Up the Western Hemisphere

This one matters far more than most Americans realize. Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro was not simply a failed socialist state. It was the operational base through which China, Russia, and a network of European intelligence services ran influence operations across the entire Western Hemisphere. Venezuelan oil revenue laundered through front companies funded political interference in a dozen countries. Venezuelan ports hosted Russian naval vessels. Chinese surveillance equipment was installed in Venezuelan cities as a staging ground for broader deployment across Latin America. And perhaps most significantly, the voting machine technology that has been at the center of so much election integrity controversy in the United States traces through Venezuelan shell companies with direct ties to the Maduro regime.

By moving against Maduro, President Trump did not just liberate Venezuela. He collapsed the single most important foreign intelligence operation targeting the Americas. He cut off the flow of laundered money into political campaigns across the hemisphere. He severed the infrastructure that allowed hostile foreign powers to influence American elections through Latin American intermediaries. And he did it while Democrats called him a warmonger for ending a situation their own donors had helped create and sustain.

Fifty More Accomplishments, in Case You Have Forgotten

The five above are the seismic ones. They are not the only ones. Here are fifty more that any president in recent memory would have spent an entire term campaigning on. Read them slowly. Each one is a real policy, signed or executed, with real consequences for real Americans.

Fifty-five in total, if you count the five above. And every one of them is real. Signed, executed, in motion. Any honest American who lived through the last administration and looks at that list is forced to reckon with what has actually happened since January 2025.

Marching against an elected man while following the instructions of those who were never on any ballot

What the Other Side Has Been Doing

While all of this was being accomplished, what was the opposing party doing? Fighting every inch of it.

Not reforming the border. Not cutting drug prices. Not ending foreign wars. Not lowering mortgage rates. Not protecting American jobs. Fighting him. Filing lawsuits. Running emergency injunctions up to sympathetic judges. Funding protests. Buying media time. Manufacturing outrage.

They have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on social media operations. Armies of fake accounts, coordinated posting campaigns, algorithmic suppression of ordinary Americans, and paid commentators whose only job is to attack this one man. Ask yourself what kind of threat requires that level of spending. You do not spend that kind of money on someone who is losing. You do not spend it on someone who does not matter. You spend it on someone you are terrified of.

They have organized the so-called No Kings protests, and I have written at length about the staggering irony of that movement in my article on why the No Kings protests reveal who is actually holding the crown. They march in the streets of a republic against a man who was elected by the people, while taking their instructions from unelected officials, foundation-funded activist groups, and career bureaucrats who act like kings. The protester is paid. The permit is funded. The bus is chartered. And the script was written by the same class of people who have been running this country without ever appearing on any ballot.

The Tools They Have Are Pitiful

Watch what they are forced to attack him with. While he is redirecting the oil fleets of the world, they are screaming about an image. Recently, President Trump shared an AI-generated picture of himself dressed as the pope offering a blessing. The entire left media apparatus, joined by certain Catholic commentators and a number of evangelical voices who should have known better, exploded in outrage. Blasphemy, they said. Sacrilege. A sign of his moral corruption.

A picture. That was the story. I wrote a full response to that episode in my article answering the charge that President Trump committed blasphemy with the pope image, because the reaction to that single shared image revealed the shape of the entire opposition. While he is restructuring the global order, they are clutching pearls over a digital photograph. That is what they have. That is the level of ammunition a trillion-dollar political apparatus has been reduced to.

They keep trying to attach him to the Epstein list. They cannot produce anything because there is nothing to produce. So they work through inference. Inference is the only tool they have left. And it is failing. In sixteen months of the most hostile press coverage any American president has ever faced, with every federal agency that remained loyal to the old order actively hunting for a crime, they have not produced one. Not one charge that stuck. Not one witness that held. Not one document that did what they hoped it would do. Because there is nothing there.

The Real Reason They Cannot Let Him Win

For decades, a small network of people has lived off the corruption of the American government and the international bodies attached to it. Foreign aid that flowed back as kickbacks. Foundations that moved money across borders without disclosure. Contracts awarded to the connected. Regulatory agencies weaponized against political opponents. Media outlets that functioned as extensions of intelligence services. And underneath it all, a financial system quietly laundering the proceeds.

It is the exact pattern the Book of Mormon describes. The secret combinations of the Gadianton robbers worked by binding men together through shared guilt. People were admitted to the inner circle only after committing crimes that the others could hold over them. That way, no one could defect. No one could testify. Everyone was dirty, and everyone knew it.

Moroni saw this pattern and wrote directly to our day about it:

I used to love the films. I used to admire some of these people. I looked up to talent that seemed so great. No longer. What I see now is a class of people who traded their souls for fame, wealth, and access. And I see a president who cannot be bought, cannot be bribed, cannot be blackmailed, and cannot be frightened into silence. That is why they hate him. That is why they sat silent for the Olympic champions, the cancer survivors, and the wounded soldiers. They have poured so much of themselves into opposing him that they cannot stand to see anything associated with his presidency receive honor, even when the honor belongs to Americans who had nothing to do with politics.

A Level No One Else Can Play

Watch the world leaders. Watch how they position themselves around him. The ancient strategists of Russia, the patient tacticians of China, the careful statesmen of Britain and the European Union. None of them can play at the level he is playing. They are reacting. He is acting. They are hedging. He is deciding. They are meeting. He is signing.

He is not a player on any of their boards. He is the conductor, and they are the orchestra. Each one of them plays an instrument he has already scored. China negotiates on the terms he sets. Russia recalibrates around his sanctions. Europe follows his tariff framework even while complaining about it. Iran makes its moves inside a theater he has defined. None of them choose the tempo. He does. None of them choose the key. He does. They play what he calls for, and when he raises the baton for the next movement, they will play that too.

That is not natural talent, though the talent is real. It is not experience, though the experience is considerable. It is not personality, though the personality is singular. What you are seeing is a man operating with a gift that is not his own. It was given to him for a purpose that has not yet been fully revealed.

Isaiah saw this pattern in the last days. He described a servant who would act with wisdom and be exalted and extolled, even after being marred more than any man. He described that servant astonishing the kings of the earth, who would shut their mouths at what they had not been told. The full case for why this language applies directly to President Trump is laid out chapter by chapter in The First Horseman: Donald Trump and Biblical Prophecy. Once you see how Isaiah, John, Moroni, and the modern prophets all point to the same figure, the pattern becomes impossible to miss.

The Question Every American Will Soon Face

What is happening in Washington today is a prelude. The real event has not started yet. When it does, the exposure of corruption in this country and across the world will be unlike anything in modern memory. People who believed themselves untouchable will be touched. Networks that have operated for generations will be unwound. Money that was laundered through foundations, think tanks, aid packages, and shell companies will be traced back to the people who pocketed it. The Lord does not promise a quiet end to the works of darkness. He promises their exposure.

The opposition understands this. That is why the protests are paid. That is why the accounts are fake. That is why the inference is constant. They know what is coming, and they know that once the truth is visible, hundreds of millions of people are going to face the single hardest question of their lives.

Do I accept what I am now seeing, or do I keep fighting against it?

That is the test. That is what is coming for every honest American, and eventually for every honest person on earth. Because this work is not limited to one country. The corruption is global. The reach of the servant will be global. And the hand that sustains him is the hand of the same God who saw all of this coming and who has already declared how it ends.

If you want to understand the full scriptural case, including the identity of the First Horseman, the pattern of the marred servant in Isaiah, the seventh seal prophecies, and where all of this is heading, the book The First Horseman: Donald Trump and Biblical Prophecy lays it out in detail. Fifty-five accomplishments in sixteen months is not an accident. A man operating at a level no world leader can match is not an accident. The scriptures told us what to watch for. This generation is watching it happen.

Fifty-five accomplishments. One man. Sixteen months. And an entire political class, an entire media apparatus, and an entire global elite unable to stop him. They cannot stop him because he is not there on his own strength. He is there because the hand of the Lord is on him.

And the work has barely begun.

Kelly Smith is the author of The First Horseman: Donald Trump and Biblical Prophecy. He is a lifelong student of biblical prophecy and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.