May 01, 2017 11:32 AM UTC

Sen. Ray Scott Celebrates His Love For Donald Trump

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• by: Colorado Pols

With President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in the books, local Republicans are hoping to put their positive spin on what is generally agreed to be an historically unproductive start to Trump’s administration–here’s Sen. Ray Scott of Grand Junction putting his best face on Trump for the Colorado Springs Gazette:

For a new president who never enjoyed the traditional “honeymoon” but instead had to swim upstream from Day One against a relentless tide of negativity, naysaying and tantrum-tossing from an embittered opposition, the media and from a Washington establishment that refuses to change, I think Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office have been nothing short of a triumph. [Pols emphasis]

While his predecessor enjoyed the longest “honeymoon” in presidential history, at eight years and counting, the hate-a-thon that greeted Trump makes his early accomplishments all the more impressive.

Trump is the first president in decades to put out a federal budget that includes actual cuts, rather than reductions in projected spending increases, which is how Washington traditionally defined a “cut.” His budget concedes the need to make choices, by paying for increases for one department by making cuts in another. That’s a major improvement over the customary practice of upping funding for virtually everything, making no trade-offs, then using printing presses to pay for the resulting deficits and debt…

Trump has been good for Colorado. He not only called a halt to the war on coal, which is good for Colorado’s coal communities and energy consumers, but he’s backing the Jordan Cove project, a major potential jobs-generator for the Western Slope that appeared doomed during the Obama years. He lifted another cloud hanging over Colorado by shelving Obama’s heavy-handed and constitutionally dubious Clean Power Plan, which smacked of the Washington-knows-best arrogance Americans are tired of.

Scott concludes:

No one can argue that Trump hasn’t fulfilled the mandate he had to shake things up. And the courage and conviction he has shown, in doing what he said he would do, is a welcome change for Americans accustomed to seeing candidates promptly abandon promises once elected, as they get swallowed by the swamp.

And there you have it, folks–the defense of a President with the lowest approval rating in history after 100 days in office. Scott’s central issue as a lawmaker is support for energy development, and that’s obvious from his effusive praise for Trump on energy issues.

Even factoring that, you can see the “reality gap” between Trump’s supporters and the rest of the nation is very, very large.