Trump's accomplishments

[Clayton Raskell]

here are just a FEW of the things Donald J Trump has accomplished as President 4 million job created, lowest unemployment rate in nearly 50 years, African-American unemployment has recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded. Hispanic-American unemployment is at the lowest rate ever recorded. Asian-American unemployment recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded. Women’s unemployment recently reached the lowest rate in 65 years. Almost 4 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps since the election. Retail sales have increased immensely. Secured a 700 billion military funding deal with another 700 billion military deal in the future. Imposed tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum to protect our national security. Imposed tariffs on China in response to China’s forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices. Who says Trump is a bigot who frowns upon women and minorities, look at how much he has enabled them to get jobs. Also, he is making a conscious effort to bolster our national security and rebuild our depleted military prowess. Trump certainly has not run a perfect presidency, but then again no one is perfect.



I will go ahead and drop my mic now, clayton raskell out.

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www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/

[gregfordyce]

I'll leave addressing all of Trump's fascist/authoritarian traits, and leave aside all of his foreign policy/humanitarian/social failures, and only address the economic points of the lies of the poster. Here are the actual FACTS of Trump's "great economy" - you right-wing cultists should really start paying attention to reality, instead of what comes out of your Fuhrer's orange lie-hole. All of these are from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.
And by the way - I'm actually going to be laughing my ass off when Trump's great trillion-dollar "Tax Cuts" make all you Trump-cultist's taxes go UP, in 2 years, when the TEMPORARY tax cuts for middle-class citizens he put in place EXPIRE then. But I suppose you'll just blame the Democrats, right?


1. JOBS: Average monthly job creation dropped from 223,000 in 2018 to 176,000 in 2019. The employment rate for working-age adults has increased less than during the Obama recovery, and is still significantly below that of other developed countries. The pace of job creation is also markedly slower than it was under Obama.



2. WAGES: Wage growth has slowed, except in states with minimum-wage increases. The typical American household remains poorer today than it was before the financial crisis began in 2007. The median wage of a full-time male worker (and those with full-time jobs are the lucky ones) is still more than 3% below what it was 40 years ago.



3. TAXES: The Trump-Republican tax cut has been a huge failure. We were promised an increase in business investment, but business investment has contracted for the third straight quarter—the first time this has happened since the Great Recession in 2009. Instead, the tax cut triggered an all-time record binge of share buybacks – some $800 billion in 2018.



If fully implemented, the 2017 tax cut will result in tax increases for most households in the bottom 80 percent.



And it has resulted in record peacetime deficits (almost $1 trillion in fiscal 2019) in a country supposedly near full employment. Even with weak investment, the US had to borrow massively abroad: the most recent data show foreign borrowing at nearly $500 billion a year, with an increase of more than 10% in America’s net indebtedness position in one year alone.



Nothing has trickled down to average workers. To the contrary, If fully implemented the 2017 tax cut will result in tax increases for most households in the bottom 80 percent.



4. TRADE: The 2018 goods deficit was the largest on record. Even the deficit in trade with China was up almost a quarter from 2016.



5. GROWTH: Last quarter’s growth was just 2.1%, far less than the 4%, 5%, or even 6% Trump promised to deliver, and even less than the 2.4% average of Obama’s second term. That is a remarkably poor performance considering the stimulus provided by the $1 trillion deficit and ultra-low interest rates.



6. WORKERS’ RIGHTS: Trump administration has systematically weakened workers’ rights. More than eight million workers will be left behind by the Trump overtime rule. Workers would receive $1.4 billion less than under the 2016 rule. New Trump administration joint-employer rule has $1 billion price tag for workers.



7. HEALTH: Millions of Americans have lost their health coverage, and the uninsured rate has risen, in just two years, from 10.9% to 13.7%. US life expectancy, already relatively low, fell in each of the first two years of Trump’s presidency, and in 2017, midlife mortality reached its highest rate since World War II.



8. CLIMATE: losses related to climate change have already reached new highs in the US, which has suffered more property damage than any other country – reaching some 1.5% of GDP in 2017.

9. Trump's cuts to Medicare, Food Stamps, Housing Assistance, and Medicaid have negatively impacted over 23 million households in the U.S., cutting their ability to feed and house their families, and take care of medical needs, by over $4 billion.


What a great fucking President. But keep voting for him, dumbass. 

[ErixonStone]

Greg, thanks for posting this.

One additional point. I would argue that the $738 billion military budget - more than the next 10 nations combined - is not on the good side of the ledger.

One tenth of that could provide tuition-free secondary education or vocational training.

Also, Trump promised to bring soldiers home, but has deployed 34,000 more troops overseas.