Yes! Trump is thin skinned!! I admire Trump not for his smooth personality of a career politician, but for his many spectacularly conservative deeds, the MOST important being staying out of foreign wars.
USA is screwed and in yuge debt from wars in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghan & now Ukraine war. Trillions squandered and blood spilled, WITH NOTHING TO SHOW for it. Add up the Trillions spent in foreign wars. Without those the national debt would be so much smaller.
And building the wall on southern border was another huge initiative to keep welfare dependent millions of illegals away. Add up the cost of millions of illegals Biden has allowed in welfare dollars and crime. Reagan, Bushes etc never did much.
The 3rd most important thing Trump did was try to check the huge trade imbalance with China. Add up the millions of middle-class manufacturing jobs sent to China and it boggles the mind. Manufacturing is the biggest national wealth creator. China has gone from mass poverty to largest economy in world (measured by buying power) in short 3 decades. Now China owns all mines in Africa and companies all over the world. You will be shocked to discover how many items we use everyday are made in USA by companies owned by China.
Name me ONE US president who accomplished anything even close to Trump. So, I can overlook childish behavior by Trump. I always look at the BIG picture.
Trump is basically a moderate pol that moderates despise. That really takes some doing. Even 2016 was a major league fluke. In both 2016 *and* 2020, Trump won a smaller % of the popular vote than Romney in 2012.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_United_States_presidential_election
The secret sauce for Trump in 2016? Jill Stein played spoiler for Hillary in the same way Ralph Nader played spoiler for Al Gore in 2000. Maybe lightning will strike twice. Maybe Jill Stein will run in 2024.
A big chunk of the reason Republican pols and right-wing thinkers dislike Trump relates to his New York liberal views. Social Security and Medicare are the biggest line items in the Federal budget, accounting for about 1/2, and that proportion is increasing relentlessly, thanks to COLA, which doesn’t apply to other budget line items. Like a Democrat, he absolutely refuses to talk about reform (i.e. benefit cuts) because self-aggrandizement (i.e. winning the White House again) is job #1. The other aspect of it is, in 2016, he got the lowest popular vote %s of any winning GOP presidential candidate in a century, and he talks like he’s Reagan, with double digit popular vote margins and electoral landslides.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_popular_vote_margin