Mostly LurkingI DO recognize some positive things Trump has done although I don't support everything he is or does.
Here are some of the things that our dear friend Donnie has accomplished over the past 18 months, as well as some of his policy positions. Tell me which ones you support:
1) Has continued to gut the EPA through Scott Pruitt. Continues to push for removing regulations that control pollution of the fossil fuels industries (oil, gas, coal).
2) Has moved to remove regulations that help HOURLY workers (overtime pay, etc)
3) Passed one of the largest tax "SHIFTS" in US history, with more than 80% of the tax cuts going to corporations and the wealthy....NOT middle income earners. This shifts MORE income/wealth to the upper tier of the US income earners.
4) Moved to take away protections of Obamacare like "pre existing conditions".
5) Has become the "bully in chief" by continuing to "name call" everyone and every company he disagrees with. Amazon, Washington Post, New York Times, any Democrat that speaks against his policies ....etc. How on earth is someone going to "work across the aisle" when he calls people by childish names? How old is he? Sixteen?
6) Is the
LEAST READ ..... and
LEAST PREPARED of any president in the last 30 years. If you don't like to read, you don't like to learn.
7) Has hired the following:
(a) someone with a 2.2 GPA in "Animal Science" from Texas A & M to lead the ENERGY DEPARTMENT. Usually ..... this position goes to someone with ACTUAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE ENERGY DEPARTMENT (fossil fuels, atomic energy, renewable energy, energy grid, etc). Obama's chief of energy had a PHD from Stanford. He headed the Physics department at MIT (Mass Institute of Technology) before serving as the Undersecretary of Energy and Environment under Bill Clinton).
(b) Has also hired Betsy Devoss who has ZERO EXPERIENCE in public education ..... to lead the Dept of Education.
(c) Has hired someone that was turned down to serve as a federal judge position 30 years ago amid charges of racism.
(d) Has hired Ben Carson ..... a physician .... to head the Housing and Urban Development department. Ben had ZERO EXERIENCE in that area.
(e) Hired ..... and then kept on .... Scott Pruitt, although in
ANY OTHER ADMINISTRATION Scott Pruitt would have been gone
LONG AGO due to his numerous missed steps with ethics.
The things listed in this #7 are very important ..... because a bad coach attracts bad athletes. And I called this one EARLY before he even started filling positions. If you have a bad leader, he will hire bad employees. He is not a "magnet" for "good athletes" to fill the positions of the people who actually do the work.
Continues to lie
DAILY ..... and apparently encourages his people to
LIE FOR HIM. It was clear
ON DAY ONE, when Spicey said "This was the largest crowd in history" for Trump's inauguration. It should have been clear to ANYONE ...... that if he was going to lie about
THAT, he would lie about
ANYTHING. He just "makes stuff up", like his lies about the balance of trade issue with Canada when he lied to Trudeau's face. He just makes it up without any consideration to whether or not it is actually true.
9) Has proven ..... so far .... to be a
POOR NEGOTIATOR, giving away things to North Korea early, for nothing in return.
10) Has proven to have little grasp of economics ..... most recently proven by his tariff policies that is driving employment
OFF SHORE (as proven by Harley Davidson just this week).
11) Trump
HASN'T changed Washington
AT ALL. HE HAS MADE THE PROBLEMS WORSE. And that is
NOT surprising to me. Trump has
EMBRACED the lobbyists in Washington DC .... and hired as many of them as he can.
12) Trump has
WORSENED relations with our closest friends and neighbors: Canada, Germany, England, France, and Mexico.
13) Finally.... some good news: The unemployment
RATE has
CONTINUED to drop along the
SAME path that unemployment dropped under Obama.
THAT .... is a good thing. But let's be clear: He was handed the keys to the Mazaratti and it had been humming along for
YEARS. He has
NOT disrupted that
YET (Knock on wood). Also let's be clear ..... there were more jobs created during Obama's last 16 months in office than in Trump's first 16 months (yes .... that is a fact).
I look forward to your long list of things that Donald Trump has done well over the past 16 + months....
