Trump's accomplishments

Trump's legacy shows the diversity of America. Thanks to his unprecedented leadership, in just a few weeks, the US will have:

- a catholic President (only the second one)
- a female, Black, Indian, baptist Vice-President
- a female, catholic Speaker of the House
- a jewish Senate Majority Leader
 
But his greatest accomplishment:

He totally demolished James Buchanan in the contest for the Worst President.

And yet, among Republicans, he's the best President ever, both in a direct poll and in terms of his approval numbers.

President Trump is exactly the President that 74 million Americans recently voted for :(
 
But his greatest accomplishment:

He totally demolished James Buchanan in the contest for the Worst President.

I was thinking about this one. Up until yesterday, I was thinking I still had to give it to Buchanan, but after this...Toupee Fiasco may have pulled it off.
 
And yet, among Republicans, he's the best President ever, both in a direct poll and in terms of his approval numbers.

President Trump is exactly the President that 74 million Americans recently voted for :(

Ever get bored with the Cassandra routine?
 
Inciting an insurrection that resulted in the storming of the Capitol for the first time in 206 years.... does that count as an "achievement"?
 
I did hear from multiple Trump Defenders how his anti-lobbying EO proved that he he was 'draining the Swamp'.

Haven't gotten any reply about the fact that Trump rescinded that order just before leaving.
 
I did hear from multiple Trump Defenders how his anti-lobbying EO proved that he he was 'draining the Swamp'.

Haven't gotten any reply about the fact that Trump rescinded that order just before leaving.

Ah well it's like this......

He drained the swamp therefore anyone associated with his administration is, by definition, free of the taint of swamp. As a consequence they should be free to immediately go into lucrative lobbying positions.

It's only people from prior (and one presumes, subsequent) administrations who should have to wait before waddling up to the trough.

Sound about right ? :rolleyes:
 
No new wars is a big accomplishment for a US president.
Not sure if that was a serious comment or not. But assuming it was...

In my opinion, "No new wars" is not necessarily an accomplishment.

The world is a complex place, with constantly changing political situations... New politicians and other notable figures rise and fall, social situations get altered, etc. While starting a preemptive war for no reason would be considered a negative, not all military conflicts are the same.

Most people would consider a military response to 9/11 to be justified, as the U.S. was attacked by foreign actors in Afghanistan, and it was unlikely that further attacks would have been prevented without an invasion. And Obama's involvement in the Libyan conflict was understandable: the U.S. did not initiate the conflict, and civilians were being targeted.

Now, it is true that Trump did not involve the U.S. in any new wars (although probably not for lack of trying... his handling of Iran certainly amounted to pretty loud sabre rattling.) But that seemed to be more a case of dumb luck... the U.S. was not directly attacked in that time (neither was it attacked under Obama... so no gold star for Trup there), and there were no surprise global conflicts that would have required international attention.
 
Just read this page, so possibly this may have been covered in one of the earlier pages.

Trump's obvious, and very important, if unintended, contribution has been to show up, finger-in-eye, can-no-longer-be-ignored, those glaring inefficiencies and loopholes crying out to be set right. Any lesser a montstrosity than Trump, and they might not have stood out so. Any more or smarter than Trump, and they may have broken the nation for good. As it is, it was a great wake-up-call, to set these administrative issues right.

Yes, political fissures too, obviously, but here I'm speaking of the administrative stuff, easily enough fixed (compared to the far more difficult political stuff).

Like, 1. After the election, and up till the next administration takes over, drastically limit all executive powers. Barring emergencies, preferably do away with all overreaching powers of the lame-duck, caretaker President.

2. Bring down the huge gap between vote and the next administration taking over.

3. Remove the Pardon thing. Or at least, require all pardons to necessarily be backed by a two-thirds mahority. (Either no pardons, or there's a vote in the House, once a year, for all pardon candidates, and the Prez can pardon only those that get the two-thirds majority support. Or something along those lines.)


Those three, off the top of my head. I'm sure there are others. Fires to put out there always will be, but the Biden administration should not let go the opportunity created by Trump's sheer grotesquery to push through some of these long-needed reforms. The horror that was Trump will then have served a useful purpose, if this is done.
 
Since that POS Trump is finally out of the White House, now I no longer have to worry every day about him starting a war, starting a fight with the news media, starting a fight with Democrats, or starting a fight with someone/anyone else.

That is about the only half-way positive thing that Trump has done. Is to leave the White House when he was supposed to leave.
 
Since that POS Trump is finally out of the White House, now I no longer have to worry every day about him starting a war

Did you worry about Obama starting wars?

Because he actually did, and Trump didn't.
 
Did you worry about Obama starting wars?

Because he actually did, and Trump didn't.
Actually, no he (Obama) didn't.

He got the U.S. involved in Libya, but Obama didn't start that war... it was already a conflict before Obama joined in the bombing campaign. And there was that 'war' with ISIS, but that was in response to attacks initiated by the terrorist organizations.
 
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I'd forgotten about this thread. What a perfect place to drop this video. Take it away, Beau.



Yeah. I'll be sharing this one. Trumpkins need to see it.
 

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