Posted on 01/26/2018 9:09:26 PM PST by Kaslin
While the news media and the President’s biggest critics have understandably focused on Trump’s latest controversial tweets and statements along with sketchy claims made about him by anonymous sources, he has done a shockingly good job of actual governance. In fact, if any 2016 candidate other than Trump had gotten this much done in his first year, Republicans would be calling him another Reagan. With that said, it’s time to give a little credit where credit is due…
Honorable Mentions: Winning A Government Shutdown, Repealing Obama's Net Neutrality Rules, Cutting Regulations, Repealing The Individual Mandate, Getting Cooperation From China On North Korea, Pulling Out Of The Paris Climate Agreement, Reduction In Illegal Immigration, Reinstating The Mexico City Policy On Abortion
7) Moving The American Embassy To Jerusalem: The Israeli/Palestinian conflict is a Gordian Knot that will probably never be solved short of one side or the other being driven away at the point of a gun, but if it is ever going to be fixed, a dose of reality is needed. Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump ALL promised to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, but only Trump delivered. He then followed that up with yanking aid from the Palestinians until they come to peace talks. Will it bring both sides together? Probably not, but acknowledging that Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and punishing the Palestinians for bad behavior has a much better chance of getting results than catering to Palestinian fantasies and pretending both sides are equally at fault for their conflict.
6) Improving The Economy: On the one hand, no President deserves full credit or blame for what the economy does under his watch. There are just too many factors involved that he can’t control. On the other hand, despite predictions of doom when Trump was elected, economic growth has been up, unemployment has reached a 16 year low and the 31% growth of the stock market in Trump’s first year was the best it has been under a President since FDR. Undoubtedly, some of this success has to do with business getting a hostile socialist OUT OF OFFICE, but Trump’s pro-business attitude and tax plan undoubtedly helped a lot, too.
5) Hurting NFL Attendance: There were varied opinions on the Right about how smart it was for Trump to call out the NFL for unpatriotic disrespect some of its players were showing to the flag. However, a brutal reality soon set in for the NFL. Its attendance dropped 10% for the year on top of an 8% drop that already happened in 2016. Perhaps worse yet, opinion on the Right turned so viciously against the NFL that it tied with MSNBC for the most polarizing corporate brand. In recent years, corporations have seemed to inexorably move toward the Left, mainly because liberals complain about everything and conservatives have had a “Live And Let Live” attitude. Showing corporations that there can be a big price to pay for insulting conservatives was the most important use of the presidential soapbox by a Republican President since the Reagan years.
4) Pulling Out Of The Trans-Pacific Partnership: The Trans-Pacific Partnership was sold to Republicans as a free trade agreement. Unfortunately, that free trade agreement also had a DANGEROUS erosion of American sovereignty built into it. It allowed a Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission filled with unelected bureaucrats to make rulings that had the potential to impact American policy in regards to “free speech, gun rights, environmental regulation, border enforcement, the Iran nuclear deal, immigration and refugee policy, and the Israeli–Palestinian standoff.” No free trade agreement is worth undermining American sovereignty and thanks to Trump, it’s not something we have to worry about any longer.
3) Trump’s Tax Plan Delivered: With Trump’s help, the GOP managed to push through the most significant tax reform since the Reagan years. Although the polling numbers were initially bad, they are now starting to improve as corporation after corporation announces new hires and pay increases for their workers because of the bill. Additionally, changes in the tax bill allowed big corporations to bring money from overseas back into the U.S. For example, Apple will be paying 38 billion dollars in taxes on money it had overseas. Although some workers with higher pay are getting 4-6% tax cuts, others are paying a little more. On the other hand, many lower income workers are getting 20% tax reductions. It is possible that this bill will add to the deficit and additionally, it may not become as popular as some people hope, but Republicans have wanted a tax reform bill like this for a long time and Trump delivered.
2) Decimating ISIS: ISIS rose to prominence during Obama’s time in office and unfortunately, he seemed entirely incapable of dealing with the terrorist organization. Trump seems to be having no such problem. Under his leadership, ISIS has lost control of almost 100% of the territory it controlled in Iraq and Syria during the Obama years. The organization still exists and is dangerous, but it has been smashed, humiliated and largely defanged thanks to Donald Trump allowing our military and Kurdish allies to take the fight to ISIS. If Obama were as competent as Trump seems to be on foreign affairs, ISIS would have never gotten a foothold in Iraq to begin with.
1) Nominating Judges: Of course first and foremost, Trump deserves credit for nominating Neil Gorsuch. Gorsuch is the sort of originalist with a reliable track record that conservatives have been clamoring for as a nominee. However, the winning on judges does not stop with Gorsuch. In his first year, Trump got 23 federal judges, 12 appellate judges (a record for the first year President) and 10 district court judges confirmed. Executive orders come and go, but judges can make decisions for decades at a time. Granted, Republicans will need to hold the Senate in 2018 (which is iffy) for Trump to have the time to make a really big impact in this area, but he’s certainly off to a great start.
8. I’m going to retire early.
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Another 17 judges nominated recently
Gonna drop the list here too As if Jerusalem isn’t enough!
WHAT HAS PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP DONE SINCE HE HAS BEEN IN OFFICE ……
1. Supreme Court Judge Gorsuch
2. 59 missiles dropped in Syria
3. He took us out of TPP
4. Illegal immigration is now down 70%( the lowest in 17 years)
5. Consumer confidence highest since 2000 at index 125.6
6. Mortgage applications for new homes rise to a seven year high
7. Arranged from 7% to 24% Tariff on lumber from Canada
8. Bids for border wall are well underway
9. Pulled out of the lopsided Paris accord
10. Keystone pipeline approved
11. NATO allies boost spending by 4.3%
12. Allowing VA to terminate bad employees
13. Allowing private healthcare choices for veterans
14. More than 600,000. Jobs created
15. Median household income at a 7 year high
16. The Stock Market is at the highest ever in its history
17. China agreed to American import of beef
18. $89 Billion saved in regulation rollbacks
19. Rollback of A Regulation to boost coal mining
20. MOAB for ISIS
21. Travel ban reinstated
22. Executive order for religious freedom
23. Jump started NASA
24. $600 million cut from UN peacekeeping budget
25. Targeting of MS13 gangs
26. Deporting violent illegal immigrants
27. Signed 41 bills to date
28. Created a commission on child trafficking
29. Created a commission on voter fraud
30. Created a commission for opioids addiction
31. Giving power to states to drug test unemployment recipients
32. Unemployment lowest since May 2007
33. Historic Black College University initiative
34. Women In Entrepreneurship Act
35. Created an office for illegal immigrant crime victims
36. Reversed Dodd-Frank
37. Repealed DOT ruling which would have taken power away from local governments for infrastructure planning
38. Order to stop crime against law enforcement
39. End of DAPA program
40. Stopped companies from moving out of America
41. Promoted businesses to create American Jobs
42. Encouraged country to once again – ‘Buy American and hire American’
43. Cutting regulations – 2 for every one created
45. Review of all trade agreements to make sure they are America first
46. Apprentice program
47. Highest manufacturing surge in 3 years
48. $78 Billion promised reinvestment from major businesses like Exxon, Bayer, Apple, SoftBank, Toyota
49. Denied FBI a new building
50. $700 million saved with F-35 renegotiation
51. Saves $22 million by reducing white house payroll
52. Dept of Treasury reports a $182 billion surplus for April 2017 (2nd largest in history)
53. Negotiated the release of 6 US humanitarian workers held captive in Egypt
54. Gas prices lowest in more than 12 years
55. Signed An Executive Order To Promote Energy Independence and Economic Growth
56. Has already accomplished more to stop government interference into people’s lives than any President in the history of America
57. President Trump has worked with Congress to pass more legislation in his first 100 days than any President since Truman
58. Has given head executive of each branches 6 month time frame, dated March 15, 2017, to trim the fat, restructure and improve efficiency of their branch. (Observe the push-back the leaks the lies as entrenched POWER refuses to go silently into that good night!)
59. Last, refused his Presidential pay check. Donated it to Veterans issues
I hope each and every one of you copy and paste this every where, every time you hear some dimwit say Trump hadn’t done a thing! Bob Sr.
Ray Schneider, PhD
Associate Professor Emeritus
Bridgewater College
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54.Energy policy, USA becomes leader in Oil, LNG Coal exports, and raw materials for the plastics industries; Gas prices lowest in more than 12 years
MAGA!!!
good blog article about DJT’s immigration offer:
http://donsurber.blogspot.com.au/2018/01/trump-forces-dems-on-immigration.html
Approving the Keystone Pipeline
Shrinking land placed off-limits to commerce via the Antiquities Act
Repatriation
Lowering corporate income taxes so that Utilities now have to lower their rates or else mail rebate checks to customers
Lowering personal income taxes so that paychecks beginning in February are larger nationwide
Speeding up the Internet by repealing the Net Neutrality rules that delayed the rollout of faster tech such as 5G
Jerusalem
Gorsuch and numerous federal judges
Shrinking the Department of State
Even though some have written and I don’t argue with them that the “Establishment” runs much of the show in Washington right now, President Donald J. Trump as an individual is a refreshing change of tone at the White House.
I’m glad I voted for him.
The only bad part of this article is the “iffy” part for the Senate. I don’t get why we can kick ass with Trump and lose this traction 2 years later. 90% of the work force will get a raise and 3 million are getting bonuses solely because of the tax cuts! That alone seems like it would seal a rebublican senate!
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And yet, the airlines are claiming they need to raise prices because fuel costs more....
Uhmmmm....BS?
It is the speech that will come to define his presidency.
I think that was the goal that he stated in Twitter. He has far exceeded that. I forget the number, I think he has rescinded something like 17,000 regulations.
8) Exposing the corruption of the Deep State.
More than 600,000 jobs created? I thought it is over 2 million, or is that something else?
He’s doing phenomenal especially considering he’s never held political office and he’s only been in office a year, it’s amazing. And the best part? The better he does the more ridiculous the left is going to look. March 8th is the Oscars with that absolute effin’ d-bag Jimmy Kimmel hosting and of COURSE that other absolute effin’ d-bag Meryl Streep is up for an Oscar. So what does this mean? It means there is going to be 3 or 4 hours of constant non-stop Trump bashing and I say go for it b*tches because the only people you are hurting are yourselves. I’m seeing a lot of changed attitudes towards Trump, especially in the black community and the only thing these millionaire pampered leftists are doing is sending out a message that states “You don’t deserve to make more money” and guess what the overwhelming response to that is going to be? F YOU!
Well the fuel prices did go up. I filled my car up last Tuesday at Murphy, which is by Wal-mart and it was $2.25 per gal. A couple of days I went back, because my husband asked me to get a couple cartons of casket nails (cigarettes) for him. I noticed the price was $2.29 per gal, and I just checked my Gasbuddy app for the gas station. This time it’s $2.39 per gal. That is 16 cents in just 4 days.
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