Everything Trump is promising is the complete opposite of the misery Reeves and PM Keir Starmer have inflicted on us.
While they talked down the UK economy, endlessly harping on about that £22billion black hole, Trump is talking the US to new heights.
In Monday’s inaugural address, he promised a new “golden age” for America. That’s a world away from the “difficult decisions” Reeves threatened us with.
He called on Americans to “dream boldly” as he pledged to make the US “respected again and admired again” adding: “We will be prosperous.”
Trump even talked of expanding US territory, while Starmer couldn’t wait to get rid of the strategically vital Chagos islands, even at the cost of threatening our national security.
Every word Trump spoke was designed to make the US citizens feel better about themselves, and their country.
Can you imagine anybody in the Labour party saying this: “We will be proud, we will be strong, and we will win like never before. We will not be conquered. We will not be intimidated. We will not be broken, and we will not fail.”
Instead, Reeves has made a virtue of talking the UK down, glumly stating that she inherited “the worst set of circumstances since the Second World War”.
All she’s done since has made a bad situation worse.
Labour seems to think that the government creates growth, rather than business. So Reeves will give us a “modern industrial strategy, to create good work and drive investment in all of our communities”.
That doesn’t inspire anyone.
Nor does her Growth Mission Board. It’ll just be another costly quango.
It’s the complete opposite with Trump. Instead of hiking taxes, he will slash them to revive the economy.
Instead of piling on yet more regulations, as deputy PM Angela Rayner will do with her employment rights bill, he’s attacking red tape.
And instead of shutting down oil and gas fields, as Energy Secretary Ed Miliband is doing, Trump pledges to “drill baby drill”.
As a result, the US will boom while we’re stagnate. Trump’s success will serve to highlight Labour’s failure.
Of course, no UK politician could get away with the nonsense Trump says and does. The British are too cynical these days.
When Boris Johnson tried boosterism, it soon fell flat.
We don’t believe in ourselves anymore. But wouldn’t it be nice to have a PM who inspires rather than spreads gloom?
Or a Chancellor who can fire up the economy rather than burn it down?
Or an Energy Secretary tasked with cutting oil and gas costs rather than driving them up?
Trump’s messaging may sound crude to us Brits but it resonates with ordinary Americans who want a strong, proud country. Labour doesn’t share that vision.
In fact, it’s ideologically opposed to it.
The US appears poised for an economic boom. Some even speak of a new roaring ’20s. But it’s likely to end badly.
Trump won’t address America’s $36trillion national debt. When the reckoning comes, the world will feel it and Britain won’t escape.
The worst part? While the US enjoys its boom, Britain will suffer the subsequent bust. This is going to hurt, both on the way up and on the way down.
