Conrad Black : Trump Schedules 35 Major Speeches in the Last Month Before Election Day

 September 8, 2026

We are now fully embarked in the fifth and last biennial election in which President Trump will be the leading personality, and it is appropriate that the president has announced a strenuous campaign schedule with 35 major addresses in the last month before the November 3 midterm elections, and has declared his desire to be the principal issue of the election.

This is a bold step given that at the moment less than one third of Americans appear to regard the president as “likable,” though more than 40 percent seem to approve of his performance as president. The Democratic Party is generally held in lower esteem than the president and its prospects are complicated by the prominence within their ranks of Islamo-Marxists who have never before significantly penetrated the ranks of a major American political party.

There is no doubt of Mr. Trump’s effectiveness as a campaigner, and he has proved to be the most successful president at pulling live audiences since Franklin D. Roosevelt, before the age of television, when if one wished to see the president, one had to go physically to where he would appear. The president has inexplicably avoided a direct speech to the country from the Oval Office outlining urgent national policy in a nonpartisan way and requesting the support of the nation. 

The history of the country in the age of electronic communications is replete with successful recourse to this method of leadership and advocacy. President Roosevelt in his Arsenal of Democracy address at the end of 1940, President Truman in requesting resistance to communist aggression in Greece, President Eisenhower announcing use of the Army to integrate schools in Arkansas in accord with the Supreme Court ruling, President Kennedy in disclosing the crisis of missiles in Cuba, President Lyndon Johnson in urging recognition of the civil and voting rights of African-Americans, and President Nixon calling for the support of the silent majority of Americans for his Vietnam policy, are all examples of memorable and successful requests for bipartisan support in major policy areas.

Mr. Trump has never been comfortable with this form of address and has only attempted it a couple of times on secondary issues. He has, though, recently asked the country to accept that temporarily somewhat elevated gasoline prices are the cost of preventing Iran from having a nuclear weapon. This is truthful, simple to grasp, and undoubtedly a small price to pay to achieve the goal that is accomplished. It also slices to shreds the fatuous argument by President Obama that nothing Mr. Trump did would achieve more than he himself accomplished in simply deferring for ten years Iran’s arrival in the nuclear club.

If the president perfects the statement of that achievement and others, he is almost certain to have a significant positive impact on the election results. 

His accomplishments include ending illegal immigration, generating the greatest economic growth of any advanced nation, drastically reducing the inflow of lethal narcotics, sharply cutting inflation from Biden levels, producing much lower crime rates, attracting an immense amount of capital into the United States in job-creating investments, liberating the country from absurd climate-based concerns while continuing to protect the environment, reforming NATO from a ragtag group of slackers into a self-financing alliance, and eliminating Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran as useful Russo-Chinese allies. 

This is the most persuasive list of accomplishments of any two-term president in his second midterm election since, at least, Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, (the last time, apart from the always victorious FDR, when a two-term president did not have a hostile Congress from his sixth to his eighth).   The national political press have been so steeped in bilious partisanship that the Trump-hating left is still demanding that Mr. Trump negotiate with Iran, though this has been fully demonstrated to be a completely useless activity, while the isolationist detritus of Mr. Trump’s own followers are so hostile or indifferent to Ukraine’s struggle to retain its independence, that there is little recognition that both those wars are going extremely positively from an American standpoint.

Mr. Trump had promised no boots on the ground and promised to avoid “forever wars” and he was right not to attempt to replicate President George W. Bush’s catastrophic occupation of Iraq. It was not clear at first that the Iranian regime would import Iraqi murder squads to massacre scores of thousands of Iranians and intimidate them from effectively opposing the suicidal policy of their government.

It will be hard to withhold from Mr. Trump the credit he deserves for steadily increasing the warmaking powers of Ukraine to the point that Russia is now an oil-importing country facing a war that seems impossible for it to win, while the Iranian regime is being inexorably strangled at minimal cost in American lives and only slight use of American ordnance.

After the intractable American problems in the wars between Vietnam and Iraq, Mr. Trump deserves considerable credit for advancing America’s legitimate national strategic interest at minimal cost in life and treasure. 

All these factors, as well as his redistricting success in the congressional map, make the outcome of the current midterm election campaign far from certain. What is certain is that when Mr. Trump retires in two years, all will agree that he has been an immense political influence on the country and world.

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