Good stuff President Trump has done

[The Real timschochet 6,861]

Donald Trump is my President. I didn’t vote for him, don’t like him, but so long as he’s there he represents me to the world. I was recently challenged by a conservative friend of mine to list things I like about what President Trump has done. In truth it’s not a long list. But it’s not negligible either. So I’m going to devote this thread to positive actions by President Trump (according to me.) 

1. The chaos that was at the southern border during most of the Biden years has all but stopped. I don’t like Trump’s overall policy on this issue and I am highly sympathetic to undocumented immigrants. But I prefer order to chaos and Trump has achieved this. Democrats won’t give him credit for this, I will. 

2. Trump has refused to give in to the isolationists who have demanded we pull out of NATO and stop all aid to Ukraine. To his great credit he hasn’t done this. In fact he appears to be reversing himself on this entire issue in real time. Hopefully that continues. 

3. In recent days Trump has expressed real concern about the starving Palestinian children and how best to help them. The reporting is that he is sincere about this. Though I disagree with his entire policy on this subject, this sign of apparent empathy makes me like him a little more and believe that we’re not talking about an evil guy here. 
 

4. Finally, perhaps most importantly: in both terms of office  President Trump is the first President in my lifetime, and the only President I can think of, who has sought to avoid getting the United States caught up in military conflict. I believe he truly does not want us to go to war. Overall that’s a good thing (though it could be problematic if it ever means reneging on our commitments, but that hasn’t happened yet.)

There will be other things I list as they happen, I’m sure. That’s it for now. 

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#1 - Tax cuts for the rich. 

The rest is gravy.  

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- Abraham Accords

- Accelerated Covid vaccine in record time

- Thriving economy, twice

- Reduced foreign dependence including drilling/refining and shipbuilding

- Got European NATO countries to commit to 5% and to be more self-reliant instead of second-handers to the US

- Helped Israel curb stomp Iran

Things that started wrong but he has shown he can learn:

- Easing up on tariffs

- Beginning to internalize that Putin isn't going to negotiate, so our position will be less friendly with Russia

[The Real timschochet 6,861]

Just now, jerryskids said:

 

- Accelerated Covid vaccine in record time 

I should have given him credit for this, I have in the past. 

[thegeneral 3,268]

Acquired Greenland and the Panama Canal. 

[jerryskids 6,846]

2 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

Acquired Greenland and the Panama Canal. 

We should probably take the Panama Canal back.   

[thegeneral 3,268]

As poorly and haphazardly as these trade deals have been attempted, I’m sure there are some edge benefits that will come of them. 

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Made you and your whole family cry. 

[MDC 7,505]

I don’t love the way they’re going about illegals but he deserves credit for reducing border crossings to essentially zero.

I’m struggling to come up with much else. 

[Mufaletta 81]

There is a sizable list of things that Trump has done that most hardened liberals and socialists should love, you may have simply overlooked them:

- Pardoned a former VA sheriff (Scott Jenkins) who was convicted on multiple counts of taking bribes.    Democrats love this lifestyle.  

- Pardoned Charles Kushner, who had donated millions to the democratic party and democratic candidates, in December 2020

- Released former Democratic Mayor of Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick 20 years early.   Kilpatrick was convicted of racketeering and bribery while exploiting his office.   This is bread and butter big city democratic mayoral behavior.

- Pardoned disgraced form IL Governor Rod Blagojevich, a hero of many leftists in Chicago. 

- Saved democrat mayor Ed Koch and a bunch of corrupt NY city commissioners a lot of embarrassment and political capital in 1986 by rebuilding the Wollman ice skating rink in NY City after years of Koch promising the city he'd get it done and failing. 

There are others.

 

[The Real timschochet 6,861]

20 minutes ago, Mufaletta said:

There is a sizable list of things that Trump has done that most hardened liberals and socialists should love, you may have simply overlooked them:

- Pardoned a former VA sheriff (Scott Jenkins) who was convicted on multiple counts of taking bribes.    Democrats love this lifestyle.  

- Pardoned Charles Kushner, who had donated millions to the democratic party and democratic candidates, in December 2020

- Released former Democratic Mayor of Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick 20 years early.   Kilpatrick was convicted of racketeering and bribery while exploiting his office.   This is bread and butter big city democratic mayoral behavior.

- Pardoned disgraced form IL Governor Rod Blagojevich, a hero of many leftists in Chicago. 

- Saved democrat mayor Ed Koch and a bunch of corrupt NY city commissioners a lot of embarrassment and political capital in 1986 by rebuilding the Wollman ice skating rink in NY City after years of Koch promising the city he'd get it done and failing. 

There are others.

 

Yeah I guess since I’m neither leftist nor a fan of corruption, I don’t like any of this stuff. 

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5 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:

Yeah I guess since I’m neither leftist nor a fan of corruption, I don’t like any of this stuff. 

You love newsoulini. Therefore you love corruption 

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2 hours ago, MDC said:

I don’t love the way they’re going about illegals but he deserves credit for reducing border crossings to essentially zero.

I’m struggling to come up with much else. 

That's great, but he did it by turning the country into sh*thole, not securing the border. 

[The Real timschochet 6,861]

3 hours ago, RaiderHaters Revenge said:

You love newsoulini. Therefore you love corruption 

Show some evidence. I’m sick of hearing this claim with nothing to back it up. 

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4 hours ago, Mufaletta said:

There is a sizable list of things that Trump has done that most hardened liberals and socialists should love, you may have simply overlooked them:

- Pardoned disgraced form IL Governor Rod Blagojevich, a hero of many leftists in Chicago. 

Please.

Blago tried to sell Obama's vacated Senate seat for a bribe and was convicted for that. He is not a hero of leftists in Chicago or anywhere else.

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2 hours ago, BiPolarBear said:

That's great, but he did it by turning the country into sh*thole, not securing the border. 

Yeah, this is complete and utter nonsense and you know it.  The country, today, is doing far, far better that it was under Biden.

You probably don't want to admit that so have to make up some complete nonsense to make yourself feel better.  The good news for the rest of the country is facts don't care about your feelings. 

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15 minutes ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

Yeah, this is complete and utter nonsense and you know it.  The country, today, is doing far, far better that it was under Biden.

You probably don't want to admit that so have to make up some complete nonsense to make yourself feel better.  The good news for the rest of the country is facts don't care about your feelings. 

It’s pretty much the same, just with less illegals crossing the border.

[thegeneral 3,268]

2 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

It’s pretty much the same, just with less illegals crossing the border.

Economy is lagging a bit behind last year despite all the spazzing out by Orange Julius to the contrary,

[EternalShinyAndChrome 4,151]

Sh#t.  Now we have BOTH lastWordGuys in here.

[thegeneral 3,268]

1 minute ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

Sh#t.  Now we have BOTH lastWordGuys in here.

Look at this whiny little lady

[TimHauck 2,923]

6 minutes ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

Sh#t.  Now we have BOTH lastWordGuys in here.

I better watch out, you might call me ghey and claim it’s not meant as an insult!

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Ended the war in Ukraine on Day 1.