Trump’s HR performance review.

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About a thousand years ago when I was getting started in the radio business, the station in Dallas at which I was a baby advertising salesman did something radical and abandoned music programming for a format no one knew about called “News & Talk.” We were the first station in the market to go all talk and among the first in the country.

There was no template. (At the time, Rush Limbaugh was a 25-year-old Top 40-disc jockey at KUDL Radio in Kansas City.)

We didn’t know what we were doing, and it showed.

But about three years in, the company – totally by accident – hired a program director named George who “got it.”

The company was then owned by proper, button down Dallas blue bloods. The execs were impeccably mannered and impeccably dressed.

George was none of that. He would come to work in an orange shirt, a green tie, and brown pants. He smoked these godawful little cigars. And he was amazingly profane.

But he got results. The station popped. Ratings jumped. Revenue, too. And the air staff started sounding like they knew they were on to something.

Who cared that George stunk, dressed terribly and swore a lot?

As it turned out the blue bloods running the company cared. And at the dawn of victory, they abruptly gave up on the station and ultimately sold it.

I offer this story for you folks who call yourselves conservatives and Republicans but who still haven’t fully bought in to Donald Trump.

If you were an HR manager sitting President Trump down for his annual performance review, here’s what you’d have to cover.

The border: Trump got hired based largely on this issue. Rather than the 10,000 encounters per day under Biden by which Customs & Border Patrol paroled migrants into the country in anticipation of judicial reviews to come years later (read: never), zero migrants per day are now being paroled into the country.

Gasoline prices: Average national gas prices are below $3.00 per gallon and falling, down from north of $4.00 when Trump took office.

The broader energy front: U.S. oil production now leads the world at 20 to 22 million barrels per day.

Inflation: Under Trump’s predecessor it peaked at nine percent. It stands now at 2.7 percent and is also falling.

The market: The Dow recently topped 50,000, up 15 percent since Trump took office.

Jobs: January jobs figures crushed expectations, coming in at 130,000 vs. the 55,000 that the “experts” predicted.

The recession: What recession? Precisely.

National security and the world stage: Iran has been neutralized as a nuclear threat and the regime is on the verge of collapse. So, too, the regime in Cuba.

Here’s where this all ties together. George did exactly what he was hired to do but the company didn’t stand behind him and his efforts came to naught.

Trump is doing what he was hired to do. But if voters don’t stand behind him in November’s midterm elections, that same fate will befall the country.