The Many Accomplishments of Donald Trump

[JesseEllyson]

We all remember the many promises he made during his campaign. He preyed on people's prejudices, fears, ad insecurities. The very worst parts of society came out in droves to vote for him. And although he lost the election by three million votes, the Electoral College places this sick and twisted individual in the Oval Office.

Now he's been in office for a little while. Long enough for America to have had a sampling of what he can do. So let's take a little look at the promises he's kept. Or not...

The wall. Remember the wall?

That's the one that Mexico was going to pay for. Well, so far, Mexico hasn't offered a dime in remuneration for that wall. But then, did anyone really expect Mexico to pay for the wall? Really? So let's forget about that part of the deal. Let's look at the wall itself. It was going to be a big wall. The biggest wall. A beautiful wall. So big. Remember how he went on and on about it? It was going to be so tall, so thick, it was going to be impregnable. But it turns out the billions of dollars we were told would be going to this grand wall is actually going to what is little more than a fence. It was supposed to be solid, unyielding. What we are getting it something a skinny enough kid could probably squeeze through. And even if he had built the wall he promised, it would already have tunnels under it anyway. So much for the wall.

Repeal and replace Obamacare.

That was the real big one. That was the one that had right-wingers dancing in the streets. (Funny how right-wingers don't seem to think they'll ever need healthcare.) They were rabid about it. And Trump catered to that hate. In fact, he promised to get rid of the hated Obamacare on his very first day in office. And yet, it's still there. He hasn't been able to do what he said he would do. He hasn't repealed Obamacare. Certainly, he hasn't replaced it. He wouldn't know where to start. he famously wined on TV that "Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated." Well, the rest of the civilized world has figured it out. Healthcare is considered a basic human right in so many countries. But not here. Here it's too complicated.

Ban the Muslims!

That was another big one. Just like Hitler, Trump has chosen a fairly small portion of our society and blamed all our problems on them. Fortunately, he hasn't been as successful in implementation as Hitler was. So far he's been unable to ban Muslims from the USA. And considering that white Christians have killed far more people in this country over the last half decade than Muslims have, maybe Trump should ban white Christians.

Lower taxes.

That was one we could all get behind. We all like to hear those magic words. "Lower taxes." No two more beautiful words in the English language. So, where are we on that one? Well, our new tax plan is finally being rolled out. And it's really beautiful. Well, it's really beautiful if you're wealthy. If you are a member of the middle class, it's a pretty ugly mess. The new tax plan is set to rape the middle class once again. On the surface it appears to lower some taxes. But there are tons of hidden clauses, little loopholes, that enable the wealthy to escape taxes almost completely while tossing the entire debt of the nation onto the middle class. Again.

The truth is, the Orange Pretender hasn't kept any of his promises. He's managed to alienate several of our world allies while cozying up to some of our enemies. He's playing a deadly nuclear game with North Korea which neither side will win: one side may lose more than the other but no one wins the nuclear game. He makes a fool of himself daily with his Twitter account. He's surrounded himself with the most despicable people imaginable. The man is a disgrace. He is the shame of our nation. He has accomplished nothing. He is, by far, the worst president this nation has ever had.

[Lumberman53]

Lol yes I'm glad someone made this take I completely agree.

[JesseEllyson]

It burns my ass that GAG doesn't allow an edit function. I've caught a few typos and I am just dying to correct them. But, typos aside, I stand by each statement I made here. I truly do think the Orange Pretender is a danger to our nation, a threat to world peace, and an abhorrent offence to simple decency.

[Lumberman53]

Yes you're right man he is a threat to all of it

[Lumberman53]

Thanks For MHO!!!

[Water_Bottle]

I think the key here is that this isn't entirely accurate.

Trump has made distinct attempts for the travel ban which has been shot down by judges more than once. Trump isn't an all powerful individual therefore his particular attempts have been thwarted by another branch. To discredit him at the attempt when the attempt fails based on the way that the system is set up is completely unfair.

The same thing is true with Obamacare. Now Obamacare has a totally different connotation for small employers so it is not about a "side" per se so much as it is about an entire sector of business in the United States. Obamacare is ill-understood all around and very few people pay mind to the economic impact focusing solely on the notion of either "higher taxes" or "guaranteed healthcare" without real context for either. I mean in places like France Universal Healthcare is modeled more like Private Plus, alongside other leading countries, where you can very much so have private insurance! It's actually encouraged. It isn't abnormal.

The taxes are actually in fact lower. You can talk about shoving the burden onto the Middle Class all you like but in all honesty a clear look at financial records shows that the Middle Class is not what is upholding the country. In fact the proletariat is delusional about their impact. ( taxfoundation.org/.../ ) 55% in 2014 was paid by the wealthy, over half of the country, meanwhile in the same year ( nypost.com/.../ ) most individuals who weren't wealthy effectively paid nothing. This middle class deathtrap is a myth. It's been a myth forever and it makes a lot of sense if you think about it; you make $60k, someone makes $6m, your income, by ratio is 1% of what they made! If they paid 1% taxes, just ONE PERCENT, they paid more than you possibly even could. It isn't that the wealthy pay very little in taxes it's that little numbers like 1% trump the value you could even produce! And these individuals are taxes at 49%+ not including all sorts of luxury and excise taxes or double-taxes on entrepreneurs and proprietors.

But yeah the wall was stupid. I just think it is significantly more important that people be informed than simple political diatribe pandering to emotional concepts. The reason we are in this mess is because of an ignorant populace who is so taken in by simply ignoring the real facts of a situation simplifying it down to corrupt little paragraphs.

[zagor]

"And considering that white Christians have killed far more people in this country over the last half decade than Muslims have"

Yeah, that is real genius. What do you think the relative proportions of those two groups are in the US population?

[JesseEllyson]

Well, friend, we aren't talking about the entire freaking universe here, are we? Trump didn't say he wanted to ban Muslims from Mexico. No, he just wants to ban them from the USA. You know, the USA, that nation that was built by immigrants? You may have heard of it. It's a pretty great place, although the Orange Pretender doesn't think so.

So yeah, inside the USA, Muslims are hardly a threat. They represent an extremely small percentage of the US Citizenry. White Christians, on the other hand, are everywhere, spreading their entirely non-Biblical hatred far and wide.

Obviously I'm not really in favor of banning white Christians. That would be stupid. In fact, it would be just as stupid as trying to ban Muslims.

[Berethor]

Wanting to ban invaders that bring only troubles is as stupid as banning your own?

www.thereligionofpeace.com/.../...can-attacks.aspx

[zagor]

I don't know many white Christians who go around spreading hate. Where I live most didn't vote for Trump.

Also, the ban wasn't against Muslims, it was (originally) against non-citizen Muslims.

[Rissyanne]

Wow... this was really great. More whining. Like I said before liberals do more for Trump than Trump supporters do. The more you bash him... the stronger he becomes. To bad more people can't read this...

[gobsmacked3]

Every time i see Trump, I take a Star Wars view.

By this, I think of Palpatine, who in truth was a concealed Sith lord bringing torment to the whole Galaxy...

[jacquesvol]

https://i.imgur.com/gUrk5An.jpg

[ragequeen]

I really appreciate that he has gone so far out of his way for the benefit of America. He is truly the most exceptional man. Thank you for sharing this and reminding everyone!

[HamAndCheese]

I can tell you are a reasonable human being with no bias on the subject. I'm pretty sure basically all of what you said is work in progress.

[JesseEllyson]

I'm pretty certain none of it is "work in progress."

The ban is unconstitutional, at best, pure evil at worst. I doubt seriously that the nation will ever actually allow this would-be dictator to go through with it.

The wall, as I pointed out, is already being built and it's not even remotely the wall that he promised.

The lowering of taxes was also never going to happen and we all knew that. Bush actually helped us out from time to time, but he was a much higher caliber of man. (Those rebates were like manna from the gods! Remember?)

As for repealing Obamacare, the Republicans don't even want to do that. First of all, they have to look to the future. They don't want history to record that there was once a Democrat who tried to give everyone healthcare and then there was a Republican who took it all away. But more importantly, it's a pawn in the game. In 2020 they will be able to campaign on the "horrors" of Obamacare. They won't be able to do that if they get rid of it now.

[HamAndCheese]

The 9th Circuits challenge to the ban was already overturned. The wall is being built and apparently they've already looked at prototypes for designs. Bush? A higher caliber man? The guy who just got us involved in more wars so that the MIC could profiteer off of our dead? Finally, your last point is a flagrant strawman because you're either intentionally or unknowingly withholding the fact that it ACA was supposed to be replaced once it was repealed. Judging by the amount of ad hominem attacks you threw at Trump, you seem to be deeply personally/emotionally invested in the subject, and consequently I question the integrity of your post.

[JesseEllyson]

The ban will continue to be challenged. It will never go into effect for one very obvious reason. No patriotic American will ever back such a ban. It flies in the face of everything that this nation stands for and the fact that Trump so badly desires it shows his unsuitableness for the position he's been hired to fill.

I never said the wall wouldn't be built. I said it isn't what he promised. You're talking about prototypes? They are already building it! And it's a glorified fence, nothing more. It will be easily dug under or climbed over. Also, he promised his multi-billion dollar fence would be paid for by Mexico and you know as well as I do that it's We The People who will foot the bill for this one.

Yes, I do think Bush was a better man than Trump and as you have just pointed out, that isn't setting the bar very high.

I know the idea was to replace the ACA but no one who was paying attention ever really expected that. No one on the right ever really wanted a replacement.

[HamAndCheese]

Saying, "no patriotic American backs this" is a flagrant No True Scotsman fallacy. Second, do these look like, "glorified fences?"

cdn.cnn.com/.../...er-wall-prototypes-full-169.jpg

And finally, that's on you for being uninformed and not knowing that ACA was to be replaced. And what does, "no one on the right ever really wanted a replacement" mean? Where are you getting that from? It seems like your idea of conservatives is based on this outlandish caricature painted by late night talk show hosts, bloggers, and political cartoonists. Do you actually even know any conservatives personally? Did you know that not all of us are white, or men, or gun owners, and no, we don't all like NASCAR and football, and no I don't drive a pickup truck with a Confederate bumper sticker, and no I don't yell at random black people in public, and no, I'm not religious? But what do I know, right? Yeehaw! Dog bless Murica!

[JesseEllyson]

Do I know any conservatives? Well, let's see. There's half the people I work with. There's select members of my own family. And then there's the fact that I myself only voted liberal for the first time in my life in this last election. I voted against Obama twice. Before that I voted for Bush twice. Back before that I voted for Bob Dole. And before that I have to admit that I voted for Ross Perot. I also voted for each Republican who came up for Congress or governor in the state of Virginia since I was old enough to do so. Sometimes my candidate won, sometimes my candidate lost. But one thing is absolutely certain. I have voted for more conservatives than you have.

As for the wall, the photos you show are of prototypes which have been discarded. I'll say it again. THEY ARE ALREADY BUILDING THE WALL. And it's a glorified fence.

I get the notion that Republicans never wanted a replacement from listening to Republican politicians. They never talked about replacement until they had to.

[HamAndCheese]

Yeah, well, "no patriotic American would have voted McCain or Romney over Obama." As for the rest, I'd like to see some sources. Talk of a replacement was present from the very start of Trump's campaign.

[JesseEllyson]

But talk of a replacement was NEVER a part of the Republican agenda. For eight years they tried to repeal it, never once even mentioning in passing the idea of replacing it. So now along comes the Orange Pretender and the entire party is struggling to come up with a replacement for the ACA, not because they want to but because the one they foolishly allowed into the White House has put them on the spot. He's backed them into a corner. They never had the slightest desire to replace the ACA and now we see that clearly. It's the reason they haven't been able to come up with anything even remotely intelligent. If replacement had been part of their plan all along they would have come up with something by now. They've had eight freaking years! But no, they've got nothing. And that is because nothing is exactly what they had in mind for a replacement.

As for not voting for McCain or Romney, I'll admit that McCain turned out to be a true dud. But I still think Romney would have been alright.

[HamAndCheese]

Except nobody voted for the mainstream Republican agenda during the election cycle. Romney was a corporate cocksucker of the highest calibre, and McCain is a warmongering asshole who dwells in the pocket of the MIC.

[JesseEllyson]

Trump lost by three million votes so it may not be a safe topic to talk about what people vote for. They didn't vote for Trump. Romney was a corporate cocksucker but he also was the main architect of what Obama took and called the ACA. And if what we had today was called Romneycare we wouldn't be dealing with the right trying to take it away. McCain may be a warmonger but he is a warmonger who actually has been in a war and isn't eager to get into one now that can't be won. Nuclear war with North Korea can't be won. Period. As I've said before, one side or the other may lose more but neither side wins in the nuclear war game.

[HamAndCheese]

Yet, Mr. McCain seems compelled to start a war with Russia and her allies by encouraging reckless decisions in the middle east. And your assessment of Romney would make it appear as if you are a single issue voter. Finally, we don't live in a democracy, we live in a republic, where diversity of votes counts more than quantity. And simply put, a diverse range of people voted against a mainstream republican agenda. Finally, saying, "well she won the popular vote" doesn't suddenly mean that people voted for the mainstream republican agenda. My point still stands.

[JesseEllyson]

My point is that a majority of Americans voted AGAINST your mainstream Republican agenda. As for a diverse range of people, I don't think Trump can actually lay claim to that. His core base doesn't seem terribly diverse at all.

I'm not a single issue voter but thus far, Trump hasn't been on the right side of a single issue. I really couldn't stand Hillary but, even during the campaigns, I would have taken a head of cabbage over Trump. I've seen nothing from him so far to persuade me that a head of cabbage still wouldn't be a better option.

[HamAndCheese]

If your point is that the majority of Americans voted against the mainstream Republican agenda, then why are you invoking said agenda and attempting to tie it to someone who most certainly was not a mainstream Republican? And his base is objectively speaking pretty diverse, he scored relatively well among hispanics, blacks, and women (lost, but scored decently nonetheless), won with whites, and he won votes in cities, suburban areas, and rural areas. Hillary Clinton won cities... and that's it. And your last statement is so vague. Thus far you've only named a single issue.

[JesseEllyson]

Foreign affairs? He's completely ignorant. The only thing he has been successful at in this category is his ability to alienate allies. The USA has become one of the least trusted nations on earth, thanks to Donald Trump.

His wall. Big issue, not such a big wall. As we've already discussed, while the prototypes looked pretty solid, the wall he's actually building is no more than a fence, easily passed over or under or possibly even through.

His ban on Muslims. It's unconstitutional and, frankly, in-American. It's not going to happen. As one block to his racist ban is overcome, another will be put in its place.

His stance on healthcare. He knows nothing about healthcare. His only real objection to the ACA is that it is attached to Obama. He's failed to touch it.

Racism. Instead of condemning it, Trump embraces it.

Support of the military. Trump has repeatedly insulted our military forces and their families. Not very patriotic.

Taxes. The new plan, blessed by Trump, is horrible.

[HamAndCheese]

I agree his foreign affairs suck. As for this whole allies spiel though? They're not allies. They're leeches. They just mooch off of our military capabilities. If you want to go fight and die for some foreign country half way around the globe then by all means have at it, but I don't want to have to die because people like you think we have some obligation to fight other people's wars.

You keep making this assertion that it's a fence, I'd like to see proof of that. I've already shown my proof that it's not.

It's not unconstitutional, nor is it un-American. The Supreme Court already okayed most of it more than once now, if I'm not mistaken.

Let's not touch this because you've shown several times now that you're grossly uninformed on his healthcare position.

Cool, racism boogeyman, great. Next...

Citation needed on this military claim.

Why, exactly, is it horrible? Because a talking head on TV told you so? Have you actually looked at the bill yourself?

[JesseEllyson]

I'd really like to go into this more but, frankly, I'm growing bored with the topic. I'll let you have the last word. You'll never convince me that your orange demigod is anything other than a spoiled little brat with zero class and zero qualifications to do much of anything, let along run a nation. And I will never convince you that he the great salvation of the planet, the greatest leader since Hitler.

So go ahead, toss a comment my way, say whatever you want, you'll have the last word. You win.

[HamAndCheese]

"When you cannot attack the idea, attack the ideologue." -anon

[Berethor]

Well at least he is not doing all the shit that Obama and Hillary did in the middle east.

[JesseEllyson]

Hillary was a lousy candidate, I'll give you that. The DNC never should have run her. She was the very worst candidate the Democrats could have nominated. (And yet, she still beat Trump by three million votes. That's gotta really hurt.)

But Obama in the Middle East? You mean the guy who inherited a war from Bush? The guy who got Bin Laden when Bush failed to do so? Is that the Obama you're talking about?

He had a hell of a mess to clean up and he did a pretty good job, all things considered. Not only was he fighting Bush's war overseas, he was fighting Bush's recession here at home. And by the time he left office he had things pretty well in hand. So well, in fact, that the economy has continued to grow and allow Trump something to, falsely, take credit for.

[Thisperson98]

Obama didn't do anything except authorize the mission to kill bin laden. It is the military who deserves the credit, not Obama.

[Political_dude]

Why there is no down vote button on this take?

[JesseEllyson]

That's strange. I hadn't noticed that. I take it you don't agree with me? I'm fine with that and I would gladly see your downward turned thumb posted for the world to see. I don't know why that option is missing.

[CT_CD]

I love Donald Trump

[jacquesvol]

Platonic love?

[CT_CD]

@jacquesvol yeah