President Trump Tells Congress: ‘I Don’t Make the Natural Law. I Just Enforce It.’

When I watched President Donald Trump’s speech to the joint session of Congress on Tuesday, I felt like I was at a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, cheering the glorious spectacle and catching shiny doubloons.

The cavalcade of successes the Trump presidency has accrued so far has me pinching myself to make sure I’m not dreaming. Perhaps we’ve all just woken up from the nightmare that descended upon the world in October 2019: That’s when the idol of an Amazonian demon (Pachamama) was venerated in the central church of Christendom at the insistence of Pope Francis and the man-made COVID virus escaped to ravage the world. (If you think that’s just a coincidence and not a divine chastisement, I know a Nigerian prince who will wire you $20 million if you’ll just provide your bank information. To get it to him, please use the Contact Us button at the bottom of this column.)

The darkness covered us fully, like a death shroud, in March 2020 when lying advisers conned Trump into imposing a “two-week” national lockdown to “slow the spread.” That quickly exposed itself as a year-long planetwide imprisonment of most of the human race — followed by their forced vaccination with an untested gene therapy tainted by abortion. That lockdown was soon accompanied by manufactured race hysteria and riots after a career criminal died while resisting arrest, and then weaponized to make it easy for Democrats to steal the 2020 election and imprison anyone who complained about it.

Given how horribly real every bit of that was, I’m ready to accept that our current winning streak might not be fiction either. The pendulum is swinging back, and nature is healing itself. Or rather, the Natural Law our Creator wrote upon our hearts is still alive and beating. It’s possible to kill it, you know, or at least to stun it into silence, to petrify our hearts until they cannot feel a thing. That’s what sin does over time: it hardens our hearts as it did Pharoah’s, until even the voice of God’s own prophets cannot move them.

Frosty

And many Americans’ hearts are indeed icy and calcified, as we saw among the Democrats in Congress during Trump’s speech. They couldn’t even applaud for the obvious statements of fact, or rise from their seats to honor harmless, apolitical Americans whom Trump decided to honor. The New York Post cited one such heartwarming moment:

Trump making 13-year-old cancer survivor Devarjaye “DJ” Daniel an honorary Secret Service agent.

Trump had praised DJ’s years-long fight with brain cancer in one of the most touching moments of his speech to Congress late Tuesday, with the brave child — wearing a police uniform — then proudly showing off his new law enforcement badge to the audience.

But as persecuted whistleblower Dr. Ethan Haim (who exposed the gender transition surgeries being performed on kids at Texas Children’s Hospital) reported from his seat in the Capitol gallery:

Not only did the Dems not applaud or stand for the stories honoring average Americans but neither did their guests in the gallery.

Even for the most heartwarming moments most stayed seated, very few ever applauded.

It was heart-breaking to see.

During these moments I could see entire rows of Democrats staring down at their phones.

I was close enough to see what they were looking at – most were texting or scrolling through social media feeds.

The only moment during the speech that generated enthusiastic, collective applause was when Trump mentioned spending hundreds of billions on Ukraine. There were 5 or 6 Dems that immediately pulled out Ukrainian flags and started waving them.

This was notable since their applause was not meant to celebrate any result of that spending (i.e. a tangible victory for Ukraine or benefit to America) but was in response to the mention of “spending” itself.

The fact that this was so natural and immediate was unnerving. It was the only thing that pulled their faces away from their phones.

Not the celebration of life in our homeland but death of hundreds of thousands in a foreign one.

And Hard

The Post reported that “MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace and Rachel Maddow have been blasted as ‘sick and twisted’ after they shamelessly politicized” Trump’s sweet, apolitical moment honoring DJ Daniel:

Maddow bizarrely accused Trump of being “disgusting” for spotlighting DJ’s heroic battle with the disease, which the youngster had initially been warned would kill him in months.

‘For the record – and this is disgusting – the president made a spectacle out of praising a young man who’s thus far survived pediatric cancer – as if the president had something to do with that,’ the lefty host raged.

DJ Daniel was absolutely THRILLED to meet President Trump in the Oval Office

This is so wholesome.

He absolutely deserves this. pic.twitter.com/K2qXooQwsH

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) March 5, 2025

The left has lost the plot, and that’s why it lost the election. The Democrats and their elite allies in the media, our churches, and the swampy districts of the GOP have fully hardened their hearts. Instead of the Gospel or even Natural Law, they’ve embraced the metastasizing tumor of post-Christianity, the Victimism that uses a feigned love of neighbor to mask a real hunger for power. Only some lives matter — the ones that can be harnessed to pull some political cart full of the pet projects those people love. The suffering of others, however real, gets shoved aside and forgotten.

Americans raped or killed by illegal immigrants, female athletes tragically injured by bearded boys, hurricane victims in Appalachia abandoned to freeze because of the MAGA signs in the yards … those people are all just collateral damage. So are the babies aborted, the children chemically castrated, the working-class Americans made jobless by migrants, the soldiers expelled from the military for refusing a tainted vaccine, the peaceful January 6 protestors … the list goes on and on of those whose lives don’t matter. They aren’t on The List.

Of Ends and Means – and Mean Ends

We’re way past the point of our elites simply rejecting the message of the Gospel and clinging to merely natural, passing goods – the way culturally Christian Englishmen misled by Darwinism might have done in 1880, or trendy clergymen misled by Freudianism may have in the 1970s. Instead, our ruling classes are much more like the priests of the dark, pagan cults the Hebrew prophets denounced, who came to view darkness and cruelty not as regrettably necessary, but as ends in themselves.

In of the greatest Christian apologetics ever written, The Everlasting Man (which C.S. Lewis cited as pivotal in his conversion), G.K. Chesterton wrote:

In the accounts given us of many rude or savage races we gather that the cult of demons often came after the cult of deities, and even after the cult of one single and supreme deity. It may be suspected that in almost all such places the higher deity is felt to be too far off for appeal in certain petty matters, and men invoke the spirits because they are in a more literal sense familiar spirits.

But with the idea of employing the demons who get things done, a new idea appears more worthy of the demons. It may indeed be truly described as the idea of being worthy of the demons; of making oneself fit for their fastidious and exacting society. Superstition of the lighter sort toys with the idea that some trifle, some small gesture such as throwing the salt, may touch the hidden spring that works the mysterious machinery of the world. And there is after all something in the idea of such an Open Sesame.

But with the appeal to lower spirits comes the horrible notion that the gesture must not only be very small but very low; that it must be a monkey trick of an utterly ugly and unworthy sort. Sooner or later a man deliberately sets himself to do the most disgusting thing he can think of. It is felt that the extreme of evil will extort a sort of attention or answer from the evil powers under the surface of the world. This is the meaning of most of the cannibalism in the world.

And that’s how to understand what our elites are up to, from the Democratic National Committee to Christianity Today, from the plutocrats in Davos to the globalists in Pope Francis’s Vatican.

By contrast, the blunt common sense of a guy from Queens shines forth like the Logos in the darkness. And the darkness did not comprehend it.

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.

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