Trump's Accomplishments

[weltschmerz]

What Trump has actually done in his first 3 years


A big tax cut, unprecedented environmental degradation, Wall Street unleashed, and a whole lot of judges.


But he’s gone further. While the media, understandably, focuses on Trump’s many scandals, his administration has quietly enacted a far more aggressive agenda than his Republican predecessors. Big boosts to fossil fuel production have come at the expense of an unprecedented deterioration in air quality. Tens of thousands of people have lost health insurance by administrative fiat, and millions are in the process of losing their nutritional assistance through the same mechanism. He’s remade the judiciary, installing conservative judges at twice Obama’s pace, and he’s consolidated a conservative majority on the Supreme Court that may endure for decades.

Some of the Trump agenda is standard for a Republican president. White-collar criminal prosecutions have hit a 33-year low. The Justice Department defends state laws that could kick thousands off the voting rolls. The National Labor Relations Board is now more sympathetic to employers than unions. And military spending is on track to reach the same levels as during the height of the Iraq War.

As a candidate, Trump was vocally skeptical of climate change regulations but specifically vowed “to promote clean air and water,” which are overwhelmingly popular causes. But Trump has moved to roll back dozens of rules on these subjects without the changes ever becoming a focus of sustained public debate.

Most of these rollbacks’ impacts will be felt primarily in the long term, but already, particulate pollution is getting worse, reversing years of progress. A team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon estimates that 9,700 more Americans died due to air pollution in 2018 than in 2016, in part due to regulatory changes. But the Trump administration is moving to restrict the range of evidence used to demonstrate air pollution’s harms, hoping to forestall the promulgation of new standards that would lead to stricter regulation.


www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/12/2/20970521/trump-administration-achievements

It's a long article, and it isn't pretty.

[dondub]

So much for the Repo-con idiots just claiming he is “getting under our skin” and that we all are a “clown car”. We are just trying to prevent the
complete degradation of our country as shown by this list.

We can only hope they have to crawl back under their rocks in Moronville and that we can re-establish America as the beacon of hope and light in the world instead of the untrustworthy laughing stock Trump has warped us into.

[tbop77]

Video shows world leaders mocking Trump after uncomfortable first day at NATO summit

www.businessinsider.com/video-appears-to-show-world-leaders-mocking-trump-nato-summit-2019-12

[happyhoix]

That interview with Trump and Macron was cringeworthy.

It's clear the international community thinks Trump is an idiot.

[dezii]

Dec 4, 2019 7:56:38 GMT -5 happyhoix said:

That interview with Trump and Macron was cringeworthy.

It's clear the international community thinks Trump is an idiot.

So it's not just we few here? Nice to know we few are in such elite company...hurrah for us...

[djAdvocate]

on the negative side, he has done a great deal.

I think a better question is what positive things he has done. there will probably be some disagreement even on that, in that for some, separating children from their parents and cutting food stamps is positive.