Instead of making up fake accomplishments this year to celebrate Trump. I hope we can start 2018 off better by celebrating his failures. Now, it's the second day, so I'm not sure it's the first. In fact, I know that it's not. But today Orrin Hatch retired.
For those of you who don't know, Trump has been trying to talk Hatch out of retirement so that Mitt Romney will not become a Senator next year. Well Donny, you failed. Congratulations, Orrin on your retirement. I wish you had taken it 20 years ago. But better late than never.
-Passage of the tax reform bill providing $5.5 billion in cuts and repealing the Obamacare mandate. -Increase of the GDP above 3 percent. -Creation of 1.7 million new jobs, cutting unemployment to 4.1 percent. -Saw the Dow Jones reach record highs. -A rebound in economic confidence to a 17-year high. -A new executive order to boost apprenticeships. -A move to boost computer sciences in Education Department programs. -Prioritizing women-owned businesses for some $500 million in SBA loans.
Killing job-stifling regulations
-Signed an Executive Order demanding that two regulations be killed for every new one creates. He beat that big and cut 16 rules and regulations for every one created, saving $8.1 billion. -Signed 15 congressional regulatory cuts. -Withdrew from the Obama-era Paris Climate Agreement, ending the threat of environmental regulations. -Signed an Executive Order cutting the time for infrastructure permit approvals. -Eliminated an Obama rule on streams that Trump felt unfairly targeted the coal industry.
Fair trade
-Made good on his campaign promise to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. -Opened up the North American Free Trade Agreement for talks to better the deal for the U.S. -Worked to bring companies back to the U.S., and companies like Toyota, Mazda, Broadcom Limited, and Foxconn announced plans to open U.S. plants. -Worked to promote the sale of U.S products abroad. -Made enforcement of U.S. trade laws, especially those that involve national security, a priority. -Ended Obama’s deal with Cuba.
Boosting U.S. energy dominance
-The Department of Interior, which has led the way in cutting regulations, opened plans to lease 77 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling. -Trump traveled the world to promote the sale and use of U.S. energy. -Expanded energy infrastructure projects like the Keystone XL Pipeline snubbed by Obama. -Ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to kill Obama’s Clean Power Plan. -EPA is reconsidering Obama rules on methane emissions. Protecting the U.S. homeland
-Laid out new principles for reforming immigration and announced plan to end "chain migration," which lets one legal immigrant to bring in dozens of family members. -Made progress to build the border wall with Mexico. -Ended the Obama-era “catch and release” of illegal immigrants. -Boosted the arrests of illegals inside the U.S. -Doubled the number of counties participating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement charged with deporting illegals. -Removed 36 percent more criminal gang members than in fiscal 2016. -Started the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program. -Ditto for other amnesty programs like Deferred Action for Parents of Americans. -Cracking down on some 300 sanctuary cities that defy ICE but still get federal dollars. -Added some 100 new immigration judges.
Protecting communities
-Justice announced grants of $98 million to fund 802 new cops. -Justice worked with Central American nations to arrest and charge 4,000 MS-13 members. -Homeland rounded up nearly 800 MS-13 members, an 83 percent one-year increase. -Signed three executive orders aimed at cracking down on international criminal organizations. -Attorney General Jeff Sessions created new National Public Safety Partnership, a cooperative initiative with cities to reduce violent crimes.
Accountability
-Trump has nominated 73 federal judges and won his nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. -Ordered ethical standards including a lobbying ban. -Called for a comprehensive plan to reorganize the executive branch. -Ordered an overhaul to modernize the digital government. -Called for a full audit of the Pentagon and its spending. Combatting opioids
-First, the president declared a Nationwide Public Health Emergency on opioids. -His Council of Economic Advisors played a role in determining that overdoses are underreported by as much as 24 percent. -The Department of Health and Human Services laid out a new five-point strategy to fight the crisis. -Justice announced it was scheduling fentanyl substances as a drug class under the Controlled Substances Act. -Justice started a fraud crackdown, arresting more than 400. -The administration added $500 million to fight the crisis. -On National Drug Take Back Day, the Drug Enforcement Agency collected 456 tons.
Protecting life
-In his first week, Trump reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy that blocks some $9 billion in foreign aid being used for abortions. -Worked with Congress on a bill overturning an Obama regulation that blocked states from defunding abortion providers. -Published guidance to block Obamacare money from supporting abortion.
Helping veterans
-Signed the Veterans Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act to allow senior officials in the Department of Veterans Affairs to fire failing employees and establish safeguards to protect whistleblowers. -Signed the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act. -Signed the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act, to provide support. -Signed the VA Choice and Quality Employment Act of 2017 to authorize $2.1 billion in additional funds for the Veterans Choice Program. -Created a VA hotline. -Had the VA launch an online “Access and Quality Tool,” providing veterans with a way to access wait time and quality of care data. -With VA Secretary Dr. David Shulkin, announced three initiatives to expand access to healthcare for veterans using telehealth technology. Promoting peace through strength
-Directed the rebuilding of the military and ordered a new national strategy and nuclear posture review. -Worked to increase defense spending. -Empowered military leaders to “seize the initiative and win,” reducing the need for a White House sign off on every mission. -Directed the revival of the National Space Council to develop space war strategies. -Elevated U.S. Cyber Command into a major warfighting command. Withdrew from the U.N. Global Compact on Migration, which Trump saw as a threat to borders. -Imposed a travel ban on nations that lack border and anti-terrorism security. -Saw ISIS lose virtually all of its territory. -Pushed for strong action against global outlaw North Korea and its development of nuclear weapons. -Announced a new Afghanistan strategy that strengthens support for U.S. forces at war with terrorism. -NATO increased support for the war in Afghanistan. -Approved a new Iran strategy plan focused on neutralizing the country’s influence in the region. -Ordered missile strikes against a Syrian airbase used in a chemical weapons attack. -Prevented subsequent chemical attacks by announcing a plan to detect them better and warned of future strikes if they were used. -Ordered new sanctions on the dictatorship in Venezuela.
Restoring confidence in and respect for America
-Trump won the release of Americans held abroad, often using his personal relationships with world leaders. -Made good on a campaign promise to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. -Conducted a historic 12-day trip through Asia, winning new cooperative deals. On the trip, he attended three regional summits to promote American interests. -He traveled to the Middle East and Europe to build new relationships with leaders. -Traveled to Poland and on to Germany for the G-20 meeting where he pushed again for funding of women entrepreneurs.
to come back out of the cave, because Trump has made bigotry great again.
guys like 40 thinks thats an accomplishment.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
anyway, Trump has a bunch of failures. he better watch out cause the GOP might pull a Tonya harding on his ass.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
@realDonaldTrump 10m10 minutes ago More North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!
Tulsa is the new comms director. There’s no other reason this could make sense with that tweet lol
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
I love that even when 40 seeks out favorable things to copy and paste because he lacks the knowledge to make a persuasive argument on his own, he still picks lists full of inane gibberish with things like "worked to promote the sale of U.S products abroad" or "he traveled to the Middle East and Europe to build new relationships with leaders".
Imagine being such an impotent dud that you can't even curate a short bulletpoint list of accomplishments without resorting to mindless babble.
Not to mention that "he traveled to the Middle East and Europe to build new relationships with leaders" is a convoluted way to say "sold $100 billion in arms to the world's leading sponsor of terror".
-Trump has nominated 73 federal judges and won his nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
Trump nominated Brett Talley, who had to withdraw his name for consideration after it came out that he had a blog that heavily praised the KKK and Britain First (the white supremacist group whose leader Trump retweeted three times this year).
-Trump has nominated 73 federal judges and won his nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
Trump nominated Brett Talley, who had to withdraw his name for consideration after it came out that he had a blog that heavily praised the KKK and Britain First (the white supremacist group whose leader Trump retweeted three times this year).
The President of the United States shouldn't be learning about what's happening in the world from any cable news network.
Your knowledge of Trump amuses me.
It's glaringly evident that Trump learns about most world events via cable news. Beyond the fact that his daily temper tantrums on Twitter follow FOX reports by 12-15 minutes with near clockwork, it's been well-documented that Trump has the attention span of a small child, and his aides struggle to get him engaged with daily briefings.
It's well documented that ALL Presidents have and had Cable news on throughout the day. How do you think Obama knew Hannity was cracking on him?
Fox, like all news orgs are not up in the morning when Trump tweets. You have that thought backwards.
Trump has the attention span of a small child? What he does is called 'multi-tasking'. You couldn't keep up with him!
This isn't true.
There have been three presidents to serve during the advent of 24/7 cable news. Bush occasionally, but rarely, would have FOX on in the Oval. Obama occasionally had ESPN on. Both of them relied on traditional daily briefings for various branches. Trump eschewed the reports, as he didn't like having to read so many words, so he demanded that they be shrunk to bulletpoints with pictures. That still wasn't enough, so they began to intersperse praise of him in between the points, in an effort to keep him focused.
It's very obvious he learns of what's going on from FOX, both in the aforementioned timing and the fact he rarely understands the basic of any issue at hand. What you've said is completely incorrect - Trump often tweets whatever "Fox & Friends" said, usually within a time frame of 12-15 minutes.
And, sorry, but I most certainly keep up with a senile moron who thinks health insurance costs $12 a year.
There have been three presidents to serve during the advent of 24/7 cable news. Bush occasionally, but rarely, would have FOX on in the Oval. Obama occasionally had ESPN on.
What do you base this on? Were you in any of the administrations? Or, is this what was reported? I don't know, do you?
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And, sorry, but I most certainly keep up with a senile moron who thinks health insurance costs $12 a year.
Weird - in one of your posts today you said the exact same thing - except you said "...health insurance costs $14 a month" Not $12.
Lemme guess: Another typo?
Dang man, you're starting to have more typos than Trump? Dare we call you a senile, doughy, person, on the fringe of dementia?
There have been three presidents to serve during the advent of 24/7 cable news. Bush occasionally, but rarely, would have FOX on in the Oval. Obama occasionally had ESPN on.
What do you base this on? Were you in any of the administrations? Or, is this what was reported? I don't know, do you?
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And, sorry, but I most certainly keep up with a senile moron who thinks health insurance costs $12 a year.
Weird - in one of your posts today you said the exact same thing - except you said "...health insurance costs $14 a month" Not $12.
Lemme guess: Another typo?
Dang man, you're starting to have more typos than Trump? Dare we call you a senile, doughy, person, on the fringe of dementia?
Or not?
No, he's used both numbers, $12 and $14. I think $12 was the number he gave Haberman, $14 in the Dickerson interview, but I could have those mixed up. He's also used both figures at campaign rallies (I've heard "$15" and "$22" a few times) . He's also interchanged "month" and "year" before, but I think he's only said "...a year" during rallies.
My theory on how he gets these numbers is that he's obviously mistaking health insurance and life insurance, and he usually throws out whatever number he heard last on whatever company is advertising life insurance on FOX commercials on any given day.
EDIT: I found another where both $12 and $15 are the number:
"We're putting in $8bn [to a high-risk coverage pool] and you're going to have absolute coverage. You're going to have absolute guaranteed coverage. You're going to have it if you're a person going in … don't forget, this was not supposed to be the way insurance works. Insurance is, you're 20 years old, you just graduated from college, and you start paying $15 a month for the rest of your life and by the time you're 70, and you really need it, you're still paying the same amount and that's really insurance."
And also, I was wrong, he has said "year" in interviews::
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"As they get something, it gets tougher. Because politically, you can't give it away. So preexisting conditions are a tough deal. Because you are basically saying from the moment the insurance, you're 21 years old, you start working and you're paying $12 a year for insurance, and by the time you're 70, you get a nice plan. Here's something where you walk up and say, "I want my insurance." It's a very tough deal, but it is something that we're doing a good job of."
Dang man, you're starting to have more typos than Trump? Dare we call you a senile, doughy, person, on the fringe of dementia?
Or not? thumbsup
Nevermind, I missed this part. I thought you were trying to make a good faith argument that Trump knows what health insurance is. I realize now it was a laughably lame attempt at semantics. My bad.
But here's a tip- next time you have the impulse to say something like "First you said $12, now you say $14, maybe you have dementia!", take a deep breath and do some research. A minute or so of Google searching would've let you know that Trump is indeed a senile moron who has laid out all kinds of random numbers - $12 a month, $15 a year, $14 a month, $22 a month - as to what he thinks health insurance coverage costs.
Honestly, I'm no longer surprised at how dumb he is, but you would think at some point one of his underlings would inform him about the basics of what health coverage costs. I know he has the mind of a child, but my God. It's been well over a year, and he still doesn't know what health insurance is.
You still spell stuff wrong, all the time - at least tonight.
What's that say about you? Ah, nothing, right? Have a good evening. Enjoying the banter and making you........well.
Honestly, arch, I like and respect you on a certain level, and you're better than some of these dumb semantic arguments, and you know it.
I'm not certain why you feel the impulse to defend Trump, because I think deep down inside you know that he's an immoral simpleton. My guess would be you defend him to spite other larger ideologies, but I think you know that trying to argue that the man isn't a senile moron is a failed argument.
Nah, I don't defend Trump like I used to. But seriously, the things you accuse him of, while doing the same yourself, makes me wonder about you.
It's bad if someone else spells wrong, but it's okay if you do? Just a typo?
Grayson/Graydon - whatever, right?
Etc.
Look, I know you don't like republicans, or conservatives, or liberals, or democrats, or the u.s. economy. I know you have dire thoughts about everything u.s. - politically, economically, etc.
Left, right, red, blue, you hate them all.
I just can't imagine why you want to stay in this country - other than it affords you a good way to make a living. And that seems at odds with what you profess.
Again, I thought we came to an agreement on this, but I guess we didn't.
I pointed out that Trump can't spell - for years he's made the same repeated misspellings over and and over - honore, leitweight, chocker, etc. He's spelled those words that way for over 30 years, because he's an idiot who can't spell.
You made a bad attempt to score cheap points by citing a typo I made.
We both know that's a disingenuous argument. I can obviously spell, I'm obviously not a moron, I'm obviously not senile, I'm obviously not suffering from dementia. You can't say the same about Trump. There's overwhelming evidence to suggest all those things about him.
Let's put it this way - and I'm being earnest here - what specifically do you think I'm exaggerating or wrong about Trump?
I'm fairly confident I can back up all of my claims with mountains of direct evidence - he's a coward, he has thin-skin, he's an idiot, he's senile, he's a sociopath, he's a failure at business and negotiation, and he's showing major signs of dementia.
You tell me, in good faith, what aspects of that you disagree with, and I'll present my case. I'm pretty confident I can make convincing arguments backed with evidence on all counts.
And as for country - I have no faith in institutions, no. I have faith in people. But not institutions.
What exactly, do you admire about politicians, Democrat or Republican, to make you disdain my assertion that they're all crooks who fail their constituents?
I simply pointed out your spelling screw ups. And, like you did/do with Trump in calling him stupid for his screw ups, I held you to the same standard. That's all.
what happened? i thought 3 million illegals voted. whats up?
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Trump failures? Can you imagine the media and the liberal members of this board if President Trump lost the nuclear codes....like Bill Clinton did? Boy, did we ever dodge a bullet with having Bill as the 1st lady!
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