The editors here at I&I have been in the news business for more than four decades, and we’ve never seen anything like the steady stream of glorious news since President Donald Trump took office. We keep pinching ourselves to make sure we aren’t dreaming.

It started on day one, with Trump’s triumphant inaugural address and the flurry of well-targeted executive orders that boldly declared not just the end of the Biden administration, but the beginning of the end of 100 years of socialist experimentation in the U.S.

Every day since has brought gift-wrapped presents that conservatives – including those suffering Trump Derangement Syndrome – dreamed about for decades.

What’s particularly delicious about all this is that the mainstream news media keep having to report the good news.

Let’s review:

Border security: One month into the Trump administration, illegal border crossings were down 94% from the year before to the lowest level for February in U.S. history. And without any new laws on the books.

Inflation: Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that wholesale prices were flat, below expectations, and in the face of endless claims that Trump’s tariffs would push prices up.  The Consumer Price Index went up by just 2.8% in February. (The average under Biden was 5%.)

Budget: Trump scored two big budget victories so far. One was the House passing a “big beautiful” reconciliation bill that includes all of Trump’s policy priorities, and the second was forcing Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to fold over a government shutdown. Republicans still have to send that reconciliation bill to Trump – one that includes an extension of his 2017 tax cuts.

Waste and fraud: Government auditors have documented massive amounts of waste and fraud for decades, and past presidents – Republican and Democrat – promised to get rid of it. DOGE is actually getting the job done.

Regulations: Trump is getting even more aggressive on deregulation than in his first term, ordering agencies to kill 10 rules for any new one they issue, and blocking several Biden rules that would have cost upward of $180 billion.

“Woke” madness: The removal of the “Black Lives Matter” plaza in Washington, D.C., is just the latest sign that the country is beginning to recover from the woke mind virus. In addition, Columbia University announced that it expelled pro-Hamas students involved in the takeover of a campus building, the Wall Street Journal reported that “BlackRock’s ‘woke’ era is over,” and California Gov. Gavin Newsom is pretending to be a centrist.

Investments: Earlier this month, the Daily Signal reported that Trump has racked up $3 trillion in investments and trade commitments since taking office – and all without spending a dime of taxpayer money.

Free speech: Not only did Trump end the Biden administration’s censorship campaign, Vice President JD Vance went to Europe to confront its flabbergasted leaders over their descent into authoritarianism, telling them that “shutting down” speech the left doesn’t like is the “most surefire way to destroy democracy.”

Foreign policy: It has been a pleasure to watch as nations once again show the U.S. the respect that we are due, and to see a leader use his authority to put our interests front and center. As NPR put it, “Trump’s aggressive foreign policy decisions have shaken the globe.” Music to our ears. Even MSNBC has been forced to admit that “on foreign policy, Trump did two things right last week.”

Polls: As gifts go, it doesn’t get much better than seeing a headline in the leftist Daily Beast declaring that “Trump Notches All-Time High Approval Rating as Dems Hit New Low,”

But perhaps the biggest present of all has been the ongoing reports about the Democratic Party’s complete meltdown.

From their petulant behavior during Trump’s congressional address, to the rancorous infighting – our favorite so far is Sen. John Fetterman’s response to criticism from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that “I hope you can relay how little I care about her views on this” – to Sen. Chuck Schumer canceling his book tour because of “security concerns” from whack-job leftists, to the unfolding scandal involving the Democrats’ fundraising machine, ActBlue. Democrats are finally beginning to reap what they’ve been sowing for decades.

Then there’s the burgeoning controversy of Biden’s use of an autopen to sign most documents, a stunning revelation that led to Trump declaring that the pardons signed by President Autopen are null and void, which in turn forced the mainstream media to cover a scandal they’d been ignoring.

How long will this festive season last? What if there’s a major screwup or a terrible scandal? What if the economy falls into a recession? How will Trump handle bad news when it comes? Those are all legitimate questions. Christmas can’t last forever, after all, and we hope Trump and company are planning for rough waters ahead.

For now, however, our advice is to relish this unprecedented moment in U.S. history, because none of us is likely to live long enough to see anything like it again.

— Written by the I&I Editorial Board