“On the Holmes Front” with Frank Holmes
A new documentary about Bob Dylan has been nominated for eight Academy Awards—but it’s President Donald Trump who best embodies one of Dylan’s most famous lyrics: The times, they are a-changin’.
In less than two weeks, President Trump has signed dozens of executive orders that have overturned practically every anti-American action of the Biden-Harris administration.
He’s cleared out the entire DEI edifice, stopped the transing of our kids, and put America back on track to reclaim its lost prosperity, respect, and glory.
But he’s done more—so much more. Already, just 12 days into his term, Donald Trump has initiated a full-blown revolution by suggesting policies no one in mainstream politics has had the vision or courage to suggest.
- Abolish the income tax, replace it with tariffs
Republicans have run for, and won, office for decades promising to cut taxes. But President Trump is proposing to abolish them completely.
Say goodbye to the IRS: he’s replacing it with the ERS, the “External Revenue Service,” which will collect tolls on imports from foreign nations.
“For far too long, we have relied on taxing our Great People using the Internal Revenue Service (IRS),” wrote President Trump on Truth Social. “It’s time for the United States to return to the system that made us richer and more powerful than ever before.”
“Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich foreign counties, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens. For this purpose, we are establishing the External Revenue Service,” Trump promised in a nationally televised speech.
Imagine keeping 100 percent of your paycheck. Donald Trump has forecast that could become a reality—and Congress is listening.
In a meeting with congressional leaders, Trump prodded, “You know the United States in 1870 to 1913 all tariffs and that was the richest period in the history of the United States relatively speaking…and that was all made through tariffs. We had no income tax. The income tax came in in 1913.”
Already, Congress is taking action.
OFFICIAL: President Trump has established the External Revenue Service to Make America Rich Again
We will deflate the US National debt👇https://t.co/DeclPw5GlK
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— External Revenue Service (@ERS_XRP) January 20, 2025
In fact, Senator Bernie Moreno, a first-term Republican from Ohio, just filed legislation to establish the ERS. “The President’s External Revenue Service will put money back in American’s pockets by making sure our adversaries like China stop ripping our country off and finally pay their fair share. ,” he said.
- Sending illegals to Guantanamo Bay
Joe Biden opened America’s border. Donald Trump is sending illegal aliens packing…and the very worst are not going to like the accommodations.
Instead of letting 10 million illegals flood cities like Springfield, Ohio, why not export the ones we have to another country?
On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive 30,000 of the worst criminal alien offenders to the terrorist prison established on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
“Some of them are so bad we don’t even trust the countries to hold them because we don’t want them coming back, so we’re going to send them out to Guantánamo,” which Marines call “Gitmo,” the president told reporters. He chose the Cuban fortress, because “it’s a tough place to get out of.”
After a few days there, the criminal aliens will be begging to return home.
- Banish American criminals to other countries
Conventional politicians have spent years saying they will get criminals off our streets. President Donald Trump promises to get them completely out of our country.
Trump told Congress this week he want to ship our criminals to other countries, the way hostile nations such as Venezuela and Cuba opened their prisons to send their crime problem here.
Aside from illegal aliens, “we also have many violent criminals in our country…who did not necessarily come here illegally”—hitting elderly men, pushing people in front of subways, brutalizing women and children.
Some have been arrested as many as 30 times. “I don’t want these violent repeat offenders in our country any more than I want illegal aliens,” he said.
Trump plans to deport—use the old term banish—the worst and most violent repeat offenders from the United States!
“Let them be brought to a foreign land and maintained by others for a very small fee, as opposed to be maintained in our jails for massive amounts of money, including the private prison companies that charge us a fortune,” said President Trump, who added he would be “seeking permission” legally to make this happen.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: "We also have many violent criminals in our country, however, that did not necessarily come here illegally — but have been arrested 30 times… I don't want these violent, repeat offenders in our country any more than I want illegal aliens from other countries… pic.twitter.com/l0uiWELm5L
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) January 27, 2025
- Paper ballots nationwide
No one knows the problem of stolen elections better than Donald Trump. In 2024, he said he wanted to win by such a huge percentage that it was “too big to cheat”—and he got it.
Now, he wants to clean up the system, starting with the way votes are submitted.
Instead of using voting machines, which members of both parties have publicly declared can be hacked, he’ll return to having human beings count good, old-fashioned paper ballots.
Trump told congressional leaders this week they needed to enact election reforms.
“I hope you can go to voter ID, and same-day voting, and paper ballots,” because Republicans “will never lose a race.”
“That’s said to the governors, mostly,” he said.
President @realDonaldTrump is talking to @HouseGOP but directing it also looking at governors like @SarahHuckabee. We need hand-marked paper ballots!! #arpx pic.twitter.com/ebZuuHyt65
— COL Conrad Reynolds (@ColonelReynolds) January 28, 2025
Next year, the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the beginning of the American Revolution. But keen-eyed observers like readers of The Horn realize, we’re living through a second revolution right now, and the Founders would be pleased.