Serena Williams will bid for a record seventh US Open title on Saturday
2018 US Open women’s final
Venue: Flushing Meadows, New York Date: Saturday, 8 September Time: 21:00 BST
Coverage: Live commentary on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra and text commentary on the BBC Sport website.
Serena Williams has another shot at winning her first Grand Slam title since giving birth after defeating Latvia’s Anastasija Sevastova in 66 minutes in their US Open semi-final.
Williams, beaten by Angelique Kerber in the Wimbledon final in July, won 6-3 6-0 against 19th seed Sevastova.
The 36-year-old will play either fellow American Madison Keys or Japan’s Naomi Osaka in Saturday’s final.
Victory will equal Margaret Court’s record of 24 Grand Slam singles titles.
The American, seeded 17th, will compete in her 31st Grand Slam final and a ninth US Open final, making her first appearance in the New York showpiece since beating Caroline Wozniacki in 2014.
Williams will be the third oldest Grand Slam finalist in the Open era and, if she wins the title, the oldest champion, overtaking her own record set at the 2017 Australian Open.
Williams back to her best
Williams was out of the game for over a year after announcing her pregnancy in April 2017 and then giving birth to daughter Olympia last September.
That meant she missed her home Grand Slam last year but has returned to Flushing Meadows looking not far away from her best.
A dominant win over older sister Venus laid down a significant marker in the third round before a straight-set win over Czech eighth seed Karolina Pliskova in the quarter-finals showed she was able to compete with the world’s best players once again.
That meant she came into the semi-final as the favourite against a player who had never before reached a Grand Slam semi-final.
But the ease with which she ran away with the match – winning 11 of the final 12 games and dropping just seven points in the second set – was startling.
“This is just the beginning. I’m only a few months in and really looking forward to the rest of the year and next year,” Williams said.
Attacking Williams blunts Sevastova
Williams had actually made a slow start in front of an expectant crowd on Arthur Ashe Stadium, which had the roof closed because of rain and thunderstorms at Flushing Meadows.
She lost her serve in the very first game and trailed 2-0 before winning four in a row to take command.
Williams started to find her range and her power could not be contained by Sevastova.
More striking was the former world number one’s willingness to come forward, approaching the net on 28 occasions and winning 24 of those points.
Once she took the first set in 39 minutes there was no way back for Sevastova.
Williams hit 14 winners in the 25 points she needed to take the second set in 27 minutes.
“I just usually come in only to shake hands,” said Williams. “But I thought I’m playing such a good player and knew if I wanted to have a chance I had to come in. I wanted to try something different and it worked.”
This weekend’s episode of Pioneer Woman will be honoring Ree Drummond‘s late mother-in-law, Nan, the Food Network star shared in a heartfelt blog post on her website on Thursday.
“I wanted you to have the background since the show on Saturday isn’t the typical episode of PW,” Drummond writes to her fans, adding that it was filmed just after the passing of her husband Ladd Drummond‘s mother. “Ladd and I thought about it and said, ‘Look, we can either completely pretend this didn’t happen on the show and just not acknowledge it at all, or we can show what’s really going on.’”
After the couple decided they didn’t want to pause filming and ignore sharing their tragic loss, they shifted the tone of her cooking show to devote an episode to documenting one of the days after she died.
“When we normally film our show, we document what’s going on around the ranch at that time,” she says. “Folks who’ve watched our show through the years have gotten to know Nan, too. We were all working at the cemetery, and we have a family lunch together. It’s sad, but it’s real.”
Drummond also described how they found out Ladd’s mother’s illness was terminal on Mother’s Day.
“At that time, while we had been given no timeline, I think we all assumed that we were looking at two or three months,” Drummond writes. “We couldn’t have imagined that in less than two weeks, she would be gone.”
They decided they would move forward with filming since the production company had already made travel arrangements and they knew it would be harder to film when her condition worsened.
“But as it turned out, Grammie was on her own timeline. It was as if once she knew the fight was over, she allowed herself to surrender and let it all go. She never did like to waste time,” she says.
The cooking star says they revealed the news of Nan’s passing to the crew, who has become close with her family since they started filming in 2011.
She adds that Ladd, his brother Tim, their kids and their cowboys started preparing for her funeral and “spruced up” the family cemetery.
“It’s how country folks deal with grief—they pick up a welding torch,” she says, adding that they wanted the ranch and the cemetery to look “beautiful” for Nan. “She loved the ranch, and she loved the creek behind the cemetery.”
The upcoming episode will also still feature Drummond sharing how to prepare a build-your-own BLT bar, Nan’s favorite.
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“Nan. My mother-in-law, my husband’s mom, my children’s grandmother, my friend. We lost her last night, and I’m not sure any of us know quite what we’re going to do without her. She was magnificent,” she wrote.
Pioneer Woman airs Saturdays at 1 p.m. ET on Food Network.
Shortly after President Trump caught wind of an anonymous senior official criticizing his administration, the president fired back against the New York Times and other “phony media outlets.” USA TODAY
Jason Johnson, a self-described “high stress person,” tries to avoid the daily news out of Washington.
He has no Twitter account, no news apps on his phone and doesn’t watch cable news. He even avoids talking politics with friends to try to keep his blood pressure down.
But when he checked his email on Thursday, a headline flashed across his screen about an anonymous opinion piece in the New York Times that described President Donald Trump as reckless and amoral. Written by an unnamed senior administration official, it said aides worked secretly to thwart parts of Trump’s agenda and his worst inclinations.
“I saw the headline and thought, ‘Ugh,’” said Johnson, a 41-year-old construction project manager in Miami Beach, Fla.
The chaos and rancor depicted inside the White House in the op-ed piece and a new book by veteran journalist Bob Woodward is reverberating not only in Washington, but all across the country – in places like Miami Beach; Denver; Freemont, Ohio and Murfreesboro, Tenn.
While Johnson is a Democrat and didn’t vote for Trump, he and other Americans interviewed by the USA TODAY Network said they are finding it hard to escape the daily drama coming out of the White House.
And though it’s too early to gauge the toll from the latest stream of bad news, the stakes for Trump are huge. Confirmation hearings are under way in the Senate for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The midterm congressional elections on Nov. 6 will determine if Republicans lose control of the House and the Senate.
All of this comes at a time when Trump appears to be losing ground with voters.
Three polls released in the past couple of weeks have put his approval rating at 36 to 38 percent, while others have shown it hovering around 40 to 42 percent. Those numbers represent a slight drop from last month, when most polls put Trump’s popularity in the mid-40 percent range. Among his core supporters, however, Trump’s popularity remains high.
‘Where is the middle ground?’
Carol Bettam, a nurse in Orlando, Fla., said the chaos in Washington doesn’t affect her day-to-day life, but she said she is terrified of the long-term implications of the increasingly divisive political tone and what she sees as dangerous precedents.
“The problem with the debate right nowadays is that it’s, ‘You’re on this side or that side,’” she said. “There are two corners, and you have to go to one or the other. Where is the middle ground?”
Bettam, 58, was on a cruise with her family this week and didn’t catch up on the news until their ship docked in Miami on Thursday morning, hours after the anonymous article caused a sensation in Washington. She felt like she should have been surprised by the torrent awaiting them. But she wasn’t.
“Just another day in the neighborhood,” said Bettam, who like other members of her family, is an independent and did not support Trump in 2016.
Her son, Alex Bettam, 31, a construction manager in Denver, signed up for Twitter after the 2016 election just to keep up with Trump’s missives. Now, he’s ready to quit the social media platform.
“I start off every day in a bad mood,” he said. “I joined just to pay attention. Now I’m sick of paying attention.”
His wife, Rosalie, said talk of Trump has even invaded the marijuana dispensary she works at in Denver.
“People just start talking politics now,” she said. “Random Trump supporters who just start talking about him.”
Lesson for the day
Kent Syler, a political scientist at Middle Tennessee State University, was prepping for his politics class when the headlines started popping up about the anti-Trump editorial in The New York Times. Syler knew he’d found the day’s lesson.
Syler dissected the article, studied how it was being portrayed on conservative and liberal media sites, and analyzed its potential impact on Trump’s popularity and the upcoming mid-term elections.
“The collective thoughts of the class were that we’ve been through so many things, so many huge news stories about Donald Trump that would have derailed most other politicians, that really all we could do was sit and wait to see if this was any different,” Syler said.
Syler said he has talked to a lot of people – Republicans, Democrats and independents – about the article to gauge how it’s playing. Not surprisingly, how they view it depends largely on what they think of Trump.
Trump’s base voters see it as another attempt by the media to topple the president, Syler said, while middle-of-the-road Republicans who back Trump think he brings a lot of the criticism on himself but that the media is biased against him. Democrats view the editorial as “one more reason to be afraid of Donald Trump,” Syler said.
“It is so tribal,” he said. “People are just dug in.”
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Mike Pompeo on the recent New York Times Op-Ed from a Trump insider: ‘It’s not mine’ AP
‘This too will pass’
In Howard, Wis., Steve Lasee, 60, said he hasn’t read the op-ed but has heard from others that “it’s pretty atrocious.” Lasee, a longtime Trump supporter, thinks the criticisms are part of a broader conspiracy by liberals, Democrats and Republicans to remove Trump from office.
“This too will pass,” he said. “It’s just one more attempt to impeach a duly elected president. This will have no effect on my life or anyone else’s. It’s just the show of the day.”
Trump himself has blasted the opinion piece writer as “gutless” for offering the criticisms anonymously. Other Republicans have insisted the writer step forward and resign from the administration.
But Geron Tate, president of the NAACP in Mansfield, Ohio, said the author should not reveal his or her identity.
“That person would be fired immediately,” said Tate, who did not vote for Trump in 2016 but doesn’t identify with one particular political party. “That would take away a source of real-time information that is coming out through the different media circuits, cycles.”
In Indianapolis, Danielle Diedrich, 19, wasn’t all that shocked by the editorial.
“I just feel like, (Trump’s) whole (approach) from the beginning has been sleazy, and just not really playing the game fair,” said Diedrich, who generally considers herself a Democrat and voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
“I don’t think it’s crazy surprising that that would happen,” she said.
Biased in both directions
Patti Klingel of Marion, Ohio, doesn’t follow the news anymore because she thinks it’s too biased in both directions.
“One says this while the other says something else,” said Klingel, who voted for Trump in 2016.
She doesn’t like everything Trump says – “I voted for him at the time because I thought I was picking the lesser of two evils” – but believes there are signs that he is doing a good job.
“The economy is an indicator that he’s doing his job or at least someone in his office is doing a good job,” she said. “The president doesn’t do it alone.”
In Chillicothe, Ohio, Chasity Betts-Archer, 47, said she found the op-ed “shocking and scary” in its depiction of the Trump White House.
“Things have to be bad if the people that he actually does trust are doing what they’re doing,” she said.
But Betts-Archer, who said she doesn’t vote party lines but voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 said it was important that Americans pay attention to what’s going on in Washington, even if they don’t like what they see.
“If you choose to ignore it, you’re just as much of the problem,” she said.
But John Stull, 67, a Trump supporter from Freemont, Ohio, said nothing that has been written about the president has changed his own opinion.
“He’s going to go down as one of the best presidents we’ve ever had,” he said.
Stull said that if the anonymous op-ed was truly written by an administration official, Trump should fire that person. But he said he was not convinced that was the case, adding “It was probably written by the Times.”
The Editorial Board, USA TODAY
Published 7:14 p.m. ET Sept. 6, 2018
‘Fear’ and New York Times op-ed are clarifying and somewhat terrifying: Our view
Two years ago, when the Editorial Board broke longstanding precedent and urged Americans not to vote for Donald Trump, we did so reluctantly and only out of myriad concerns about his fitness for office.
Once voters had spoken, most Americans hoped he was capable of growing into the job. A ship, after all, has only one captain, and all passengers share a stake in his or her success.
The mounting evidence, from people inside the White House itself, that Captain Trump may be erratically steering the nation toward an iceberg is both clarifying and somewhat terrifying.
When the first insider book was published in January — Michael Wolff’s best-selling “Fire and Fury” account of a dysfunctional president — it was easier to dismiss because of its typos, misspellings and minor factual errors. Former reality star Omarosa Manigault Newman’s tell-all account as a Trump sidekick, “Unhinged,” equally suffered from her mercenary image as a slick opportunist.
But then this week came explosive outtakes from Bob Woodward’s upcoming book, “Fear,” that quoted top administration officials describing a president with a grasp of reality of a “fifth- or sixth-grader” — one who is undisciplined, ill-informed and a “professional liar.” Woodward cites what he says is Chief of Staff John Kelly’s description of a “Crazytown” West Wing where aides scramble to contain Trump’s most dangerous executive impulses.
Within a day, The New York Times published an op-ed from an unnamed senior Trump administration official arguing that, indeed, there is an internal White House “quiet resistance … choosing to put the country first” and circumvent an “impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective” president.
None of this is evidence in a court of law. That level of validity awaits the outcome of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. But the consistent cascade of curtain-peeling revelations grows harder to ignore and more frightening to contemplate.
And each round of White House denial rings more hollow than the last, particularly given the Trump Twitter rages that so neatly echo the behavioral profile of the man offered by these insider accounts.
Just this week, Trump tweeted that Attorney General Jeff Sessions violated some misguided duty to Trump and the Republican Party by obtaining indictments of two GOP congressman on felony charges. The tweet betrayed a fundamental misunderstanding of the Justice Department’s duty to uphold the rule of law.
How and when the Trump administration ends is unknowable at this point. But its current course is looking increasingly unsustainable.
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Tiger Woods scored his lowest opening round in two decades – but still had to share the lead with Rory McIlroy at the BMW Championship in Philadelphia.
The 14-time major winner’s eight-under-par 62 was his best opening round score since hitting 61 at the 1999 Byron Nelson Classic.
Northern Ireland’s McIlroy briefly threatened to dislodge Woods before equalling the American’s score.
“To shoot 29 on the front nine helps. It helps a lot,” Woods said.
His season’s best round at Aronimink Golf Club came in the week he returned to the United States Ryder Cup team after a six-year gap in which he has battled injury and personal issues.
The 42-year-old was one of captain Jim Furyk’s wildcard picks for the event.
Woods ended last year ranked 656 in the world but has risen to 26 on the back of what has been a consistent and largely uninterrupted season after spinal fusion surgery.
He led in the final round of July’s Open before finishing sixth, then was runner-up at last month’s PGA Championship.
Woods said much of Thursday’s success was down to him digging out an old putter – used in 13 of his 14 major wins more than a decade ago.
“I’ve been monkeying around with it at home in the back yard through the summer,” he said. “It just never felt right, but it feels good now. I’ve hit hundreds of millions of putts with that thing.”
McIlroy did threaten to trump his rival with a round that included a career-best six birdies in a row – before bogeying his 16th and 17th holes. The 29-year-old recovered with a birdie on the last to ensure a share of the opening-round spoils with Woods.
American Xander Schauffele sits one shot behind the pair.
The BMW Championship is the third of the four season-ending FedEx play-offs which start with 125 eligible players. The number of players is reduced at each event before the final 30 contest the decisive Tour Championship in two weeks’ time.
There is renewed hope of a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula and a restart of discussions that have stalled over the last few weeks since June’s landmark summit between US President Donald Trump and the North Korean leader.
Trump has welcomed Kim Jong-un‘s remarks saying his faith in the US president remains unchanged.
Kim is meeting the South Korean President Moon Jae-in later this month for the third time this year to discuss measures towards denuclearisation.
What’s been blocking progress in nuclear diplomacy? Is the North Korean leader’s offer for peace for real?
Presenter: Hashem Ahelbarra
Guests:
Laura Rockwood – executive director, Vienna Center for Disarmament & Non-Proliferation
Robert Kelly – political science professor at Pusan National University
Before they were Emmy nominees, these stars were highschool students posing for their yearbook pictures. See if you can identify these stars from their throwback photos.
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2 of 31 Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library
1987
This actor rocked quite the mullet while during his senior year at Delbarton School in Morristown, N.J.
3 of 31 Macall B. Polay/HBO
Peter Dinklage
Dinklage is nominated for Supporting Actor in a Drama series for his performance as Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones.
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4 of 31 Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library
1995
Before he was a beloved TV dad, he was a charismatic senior at El Modena High School in Orange, Calif.
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5 of 31 Ron Batzdorff/NBC
Milo Ventimiglia
Ventimiglia is nominated for Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his touching This Is Us performance.
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6 of 31 Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library
1994
This brainy senior at St. Louis Country Day School in St. Louis, Mo., would go on to attend Stanford and star in some of our favorite shows.
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7 of 31 Ron Batzdorff/NBC
Sterling K. Brown
After winning an Emmy for his breakthrough turn in American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson, the actor may be poised for the prize yet again with a nomination for Lead Actor in a Drama Series for This Is Us.
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8 of 31 Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library
2002
This funnywoman had a winning smile as a senior at North Shore High School in Glen Head, NY.
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9 of 31 Will Heath/NBC
Kate McKinnon
Known for her uncanny impressions and impectable comedic timing McKinnon is vying for Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for Saturday Night Live.
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10 of 31 Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library
1976
This senior at Alfred G. Berner High School in Massapequa, NY would go on to impersonate one of the world’s most controversial figures.
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11 of 31 Will Heath/NBC
Alec Baldwin
The actor is up for Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Saturday Night Live for his jaw-dropping portrayal of President Donald Trump.
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1993
Who knew this senior Year at LaGuardia High School of Music and Art in New York, NY was poised for a career in horror?
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Sarah Paulson
With an Emmy statue to her name already, she could win big again as Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for America Horror Story: Cult.
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1969
This Senior Year at Tenafly High School in Tenafly, NJ would go on to become one of the most resepcted actors in Hollywood.
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Ed Harris
Harris earned a Lead Actor in a Drama Series nod for his riveting role in the sci-fi hit Westworld.
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1999
This photogenic senior at St. Agnes Academy in Houston, TX was certainly destined for the spotlight.
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Alexis Bledel
The Gilmore Girls alum will compete for Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for the dystopian hit The Handmaid’s Tale.
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1993
This sophomore at Springfield North High School in Springfield, OH was already on the path to superstardom.
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John Legend
The multi-talented performer is up for Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for Jesus Christ Superstar.
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20 of 31 Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library
1981
This plucky freshman at Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, CA would go on to become a multi-Emmy nominee.
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Laura Dern
Dern earned a Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie nod for her impactful turn in The Tale.
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22 of 31 Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library
1968
This actor looked very different as a clean-cut senior at Allegany High School in Cumberland, MD than his famed small screen character.
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William H. Macy
Macy is once again up for Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for his role as an alcoholic father on Shameless.
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1977
Before she was a TV legend, she was just an ordinary senior at Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, CT.
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Allison Janney
Janney may take home yet another Emmy when she competes for Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for Mom.
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1983
This senior at Central Falls Junior-Senior High School in Central Falls, RI was set to become one of the most sought-after actresses in the industry.
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Viola Davis
The TV veteran is up for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Scandal.
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28 of 31 Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library
1991
This fresh-faced freshman at Highlands Ranch High School in Highlands Ranch, CO would go on to play a cold-blooded superspy.
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Keri Russell
The odds are in Russell’s favor for the Lead Actress in a Drama Series honor she could take home for The Americans.
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1965
This sharply dressed senior at Saratoga High School in Saratoga, CA would become one of the world’s foremost filmmakers.
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Steven Spielberg
The Oscar-winner is up for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special for Spielberg.
Hurricane Florence continues to creep closer to the United States – but whether, where and when it might strike remains a mystery.
Still almost 1,800 miles from the East Coast, the Category 1 storm remains a week away, according to the latest forecast from the National Hurricane Center.
“It is far too soon to speculate what, if any, impacts Florence may have on the U.S. East Coast next week,” the hurricane center said Thursday afternoon.
But in the meantime, waves from the distant storm will soon start to affect coastal communities.
“Regardless of Florence’s eventual track, large swells emanating from the hurricane will reach Bermuda beginning on Friday and portions of the U.S. East Coast this weekend, resulting in life-threatening surf and rip currents,” the hurricane center said.
Florence was east of the Bahamas on Thursday afternoon and moving northwest at 10 mph.
Most storms in that region tend to curve away from the United States. But an unusually strong ridge of high pressure could block that path, weather.us meteorologist Ryan Maue said.
Also watching potential for Invest 92L to become #Helene and by next week threaten the Lesser Antilles and enter the Caribbean as a hurricane. Isaac also enters the fray. #TropicalUpdatepic.twitter.com/ZCs7AGBEG5
Winds peaked at 130 mph Wednesday before weakening to 80 mph on Thursday. They’re expected to weaken further over the next couple of days – potentially down to tropical storm status – before regaining strength to 120 mph, a Category 3 hurricane by early next week.
After Florence, at least two other storms are forecast to form in the Atlantic. Either could threaten North America by mid-month. The next two named storms would be Helene and Isaac.
Helene could enter the Caribbean as a hurricane next week, Maue said.
Ronna McDaniel, Opinion contributor
Published 5:25 p.m. ET Sept. 6, 2018
‘Your identity will come to light, and the American people will soon forget your cowardly act.’
This week, an anonymous “senior official” in President Donald Trump’s administration published a shameless op-ed about their attempts to undermine the leader of the United States of America. In the cowardly, self-indulgent piece, the official admitted to working against the president. But for all the talk about the piece, there seems to be one broadly agreed-upon point: This person does not deserve the honor of serving America. If they had any sense of decency, they would resign.
Democrats and Republicans have agreed that if the anonymous official believed in his cause, they’d sign their name to it and engage in an open dialogue about their claims. Anonymity makes this person’s opinions meaningless and shields them from a rightful look into their own biases and failure to perform at their job.
The official claims to “want the administration to succeed” while admitting to “thwarting” Trump’s actions. They claim a “first duty” to the United States, which is clearly a lie. Nobody who works for the success of the president’s agenda would actively try to undermine its efforts to bring greater prosperity to the nation. Nor would they go on to broadcast their attempts at subversion to the world.
The piece amounts to nothing more than palace intrigue about Trump’s decision-making process. Americans do not care about the intrigue, nor do they care about an anonymous person’s definition of civility. They care about results, which Trump is delivering in spades. They respect his courage to stand behind his words and fight for all Americans — the mark of a true leader.
Trump’s agenda is working tremendously
Despite the anonymous writer’s clear disdain for the president, they could not ignore that the president’s agenda continues to benefit Americans tremendously. The official acknowledges those benefits, noting that Trump’s policies have made our country “safer and more prosperous.” The op-ed highlights the president’s tax cuts, his rapid deregulation and his support for a stronger military, among other accomplishments. On those points we agree, as do the American people.
The American people agree so much, in fact, that nearly 63 million of them voted Donald Trump into office. These are the same people who continue to reap the benefits of his pro-growth, America First polices. Americans voted for a leader who would grow our economy, cut our taxes, create jobs, and make it easier for us to live our lives. He won in 2016 on those promises and has delivered ever since.
Those are the things Americans actually care about. And these accomplishments are a direct result of Trump’s strong leadership. No amount of self-righteous rhetoric and empty platitudes can hide the fact that the Trump administration has been — and will continue to be — successful.
To the anonymous official who refuses to do your job: You are no hero. You have spoken out against the taxpayers who pay your salary. You have attacked those who gave you the privilege of serving your nation. You have acted like a petulant child rather than one of the “adults in the room.” Your identity will come to light, and the American people will soon forget your cowardly act. However, they will long remember the hard work of a president who fights for us, not against us.
Ronna McDaniel is the chairwoman for the Republican National Committee. You can follow her on Twitter: @GOPChairwoman.
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