In a brief summary what is the good and bad things about TRUMPS current policies/power? Im British and dont follow politics?

[Crimsyjo]

I'm not talking about Trump as a person. He is obviously gross and misogynistic. But what is he doing that is good or bad? I've heard mixed opinions. Like the tariff thing some say it's clever despite the initial chaos as it is shifting power in the long term and taking control back for Anerica?

[Lynx122]

He's clearly doing insider trading with his friends. As for how it'll affect the country it's still negative. After what he did yesterday pausing the extra tariffs on most countries it's a lot better than it would have been otherwise. But there will still be price hikes. And even a trade war with just China will affect the U. S. economy and the world economy quite a bit.

But the bigger problem is that the president gains more and more power and destabilizes the system. The president doesn't have the right to tax people, the president doesn't have the right to bomb people without a declaration of war, he shouldn't be allowed to imprison innocent people in foreign countries but he's doing all 3.

People in congress just want nobody to be mad at them and coast on their meal ticket for the rest of their lives. So they gave away power to the president so that people never look in their direction.

https://www.reddit.com/r/thescoop/comments/1jvyorw/trump_he_made_25_billion_today_and_he_made_900/

Donald Trump has clearly proven that even if he's not the one to completely overstep and collapse the system, this is not a stable and healthy way to run a country, or the world economy.

I don't think this will help the U. S. even in the long term. People in business want stability so they can plan for the future. But he's doing the opposite. He might have a plan but I'm not convinced the country as a whole will benefit in the end. Maybe only a few people will benefit. People said he wanted to refinance the debt more cheaply by crashing stocks. 10 year bonds have been around 4.5 % for months now. The last time they were this high was 2007.

[ManOnFire]

The good thing: it's a controversial matter and I don't agree with all of it, but I do think doing something about all the immigration madness is good. It is true that too much of an open border policy is bad for the U. S. because people all over the world want to flood in here and bring even the bad stuff. Central and southern Latin America is full of gang crime and poverty, and then they bring that stuff up here. Also, foreigners can often come and get benefits and aid right away, when your average American person who's struggling has to jump through hoops just to get stable. That really isn't fair.

The bad: definitely the tariff situation. Trump and his people are delusional about that doing anything good for America. I don't care who tariffed us first or the most, we are the richest nation in the world and we've been weathering it all this time so there's no need to raise tariffs. I just saw a news report about a lady here who runs her own business and gets her stuff out of China but now it will have to be held at customs because the cost to import is now hundreds of thousands of dollars more than before. Trump is not a financial wiz like he thinks he is.

[alice55]

The whole tariffs stuff seem to be a terrorist move to be honest, I don't get how the most richest and powerful country of the wolds can du such shit and how it can be considered legal? He's literally declaring economic war on everyone.

In France I saw some people saying he's doing this only to be able to buy stock for a very low prices.

[FreyaRed]

He achieved practically zero but destroyed completely credibility of USA as military and economic ally with his hostility and arrogance. A spoiled brat who thinks others aren't capable to predict his 70 IQ strategy, when something doesn't work as he expected he falls in tantrum.

[MisterWack]

The tariff situation is not good, he has not been transparent about anything. As a former supporter of his, he tends to claim ‘I have a plan’ then does things on instinct rather than a well formed plan. I view leaders as needing to showcase their strategy in depth to allow the public (whether they like him or not) to analyze every piece and pick out what works / what doesn’t work. When you act like a bull in a China shop, fear will be derived from confusion among the American public.

One. He increased the total tariff amount from $78 billion to $718 billion and not on specific goods / products or material, it seems to be based on the country of origin which is baffling a lot of economists. My top concern from this is, small businesses / consumers are going to be squeezed the hardest into submission. When you make a product for a local community and your supplier’s location in the world is a place being heavily tariffed, you’ll have to raise prices since you are going to be paying more for the materials to be shipped to you. A tariff is a tax on an import company, this import company increases the tax on the corporations moving their goods to be imported there, then the corporations put a tax on the consumers. Since no one likes to lose money, you want to make money.

I don’t think I’m explaining this the best I can, though to boil it down 1. Not having a clear plan written up is leading to confusion which leads to fear among the American public and 2. Tariffs are a tax on an import company which means the importer will push new tax to be reciprocated onto corporations to not lose money in which the corporations will push inflation / shrinkflation / new prices onto the consumer to not lose money too.

[Fireguy17]

He was elected by the majority of voters, and he is doing pretty much what he said he would do. He has the countries best interest in mind, not what is best for him or his party.
That is the nice thing about him not being a career politician.
It's only been maybe 100 days, so things will get better as time passes, but he is doing what is allowed by law, and I'm sure there are a lot of internet warriors that will disagree.
That is the nice thing about this country, you can disagree with what a politician is doing and not be shot or locked away in prison.

[DrPepper12]

He was elected by the plurality of voters, not majority!!

[Fireguy17]

@DrPepper12 Who really cares except you? People are not quite sure why this matters so much to you, but whatever you want to or feel the need to call it is just fine. It changes nothing. He still won!
When you look up the definition of majority there are a number of definitions, and one of them from the Cambridge Acedemic Content Dictionary lists this as one of the meanings:
the difference between the number of votes received by a political party, group, etc. that wins an election or discussion and the parties or groups that lose:
So, you need to argue with them, as well as others that list basically the same definition, not people on a chat group.
He still won and is the president.
There are 3 victories when someone runs for president,
The popular vote, the higher percentage of the votes cast, and the electoral vote.
Trump won all 3 categories, so he won all 100% of them, a pretty good landslide, which comes out to a pretty good majority because it was way over half of the 3 categories. So, he won by a majority, he won by a landslide, he kicked ass, he had more votes, he won more electoral votes, he had a higher percentage of the popular votes cast, however you feel the need to spin it, whatever you feel the need to call it only seems to matter to you.
In the end Harris lost, Trump is the president.
So good luck trying to change people's minds if that is your main goal in life.

[MisterCake]

He behaves as a false god. He's a convict. He's in Putin's pocket. He's a low-functioning invalid to start with who's been in cognitive decline.

Therefore any support for him is idolatry, is criminal, is un-American (not to mention hurtful to the whole world), and generally does not come off as very smart.

He's a cult icon, not a political figure. His so-called supporters are his worshipers, even if they claim not to be. Please offer your respect only to those willing to stand against him. Those who aren't against him do not understand respect.

[Crimsyjo]

I understand your view and from what I see can agree with your character assessment of him but what about his policies? Are none good or doing good?

[Staximus]

Calm down snowflake, you're going to be all right

[Shiprex]

The chaos he's unleashing is what's causing a lot of drama for people. Firing state employees and then rehiring them for some weird attempt at saving money which only stops services from being delivered properly is BS. His justification is wholly bunkum and balderdash.

Then there's the idiotic taxes he's putting on global trade. CUSTOMERS will be paying for them and thus will either have to pay more for local produced products or for the foreign ones he's adding taxes to.

[kellytheman]

There things I do and don’t like what he is doing. I do like her getting the border under control and sending deporting criminals that are illegally in are country even though some people where deported that should have been. The tariffs I am not so sure about because it gonna make everything cost more that we need to survive and it kinda hurt are relationships with other countries and allies. I do agree the tariffs against China though because they have ripped us off on many and owe us trillions of dollars. I also don’t agree eliminating the department of education or the EPA and other departments.

[Crimsyjo]

Oh yes that makes sense. That's probably why I hear good things and bad things. Because it's mixed and not a all good or all bad administration? I think governments in general have it tough because everything they do has a negative somewhere. So doing most good for majority is what they try to do. Or should. I wonder if Trump falls under that category?

[lightbulb27]

Its like going to a picnic… he attacks every fly hovering the food… but he swings at it with a sledge hammer and its disturbing. Hard to enjoy watermelon 🍉 when the table is smashed to bits.
he's sane and doing everything he said to cleanup what many saw as wrong but doing so looks crazy and pushes the edge of legal.
The bad is loss if faith and trust and good will.
The good is … a social and global reset.

[AviatorTom]

Good: improved border security; finding and reducing waste (DOGE)

Not so good: Too many executive orders, bypassing Congress; reducing government (firings) too quickly without proper planning

[DrPepper12]

All methods & procedures are BAD. He's a scumbag bigot sociopathic criminal too.

His drawing attention to certain issues is long overdue. DID YOU SEE THAT MAGA? IM AGREEING WITH YOUR DOUCHENOZZLE DIETY!!

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

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Here is a long tour, have fun 👋

[Crimsyjo]

Thank you! Tho I'm more interested in people's perspectives. I can read that he did this or that but is it good or bad? Some things sound bad and is certainly shocking the world but pro-trumpers say it's very clever and I guessable it's very utilitarian- maybe he's doing bad for a better long term good?

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Well, like any other political figure in charge, how good and how bad policies will be depend on the worldviews of the beholder. If you believe in his political philosophy and policies then it will be on the good side for you, and if you don't then it's going to be on the bad side

[contentious]

The power has always been in America's hands. We've just had traitors like Obama that were trying to destroy our country in control. Now your getting a small tastes of what the sleeping giant looks like. You guys fucked up, and now you're going to find out what America is all about. Ah Gojira!

[DrPepper12]

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[exitseven]

Trump is doing all the things that he promised he would do. When has any other politician done that?

[Crimsyjo]

That does sound impressive. And majority voted so they can't all be shocked then?

[exitseven]

I am very pleased with what he has accomplished so far.

[Anonymous]

Trump is no saint but he is doing things that people wanted our politicians to do for a long time.

Enforce immigration laws, get rid of government policies that encourage hiring and other benefits based on immutable characteristics such as race and sex, make an effort to bring industry back to the US, and deregulate the energy industry to allow more alternative forms of energy more available that has been squashed by previous administrations.

[Crimsyjo]

Interesting!

[Pterodon]

He’s putting America and Americans first by telling the rest of the world to fuck off and trade fairly with us or we won’t trade with you at all. The rest of the world came negotiating but China didn’t.

[Anonymous]

Good

Cracked down on illegal immigrants deporting over 100,000 so far. Which has lead to self deportation and fewer illegal border crossing about 700 for March.

[Opinion Owner]

Well that is weird, over half my post disappeared.

Also in the good category is what DOGE has found so far.

For the Bad:

The tariffs haven't gotten any better trade deals yet.

The DOGE cuts haven't been included in any budgets yet.

The campaign promises on taxes haven't been passed either.

[chrissykerdock]

tarriffs no one understands but it will work there's people who say he's an idiot and others who believe in him

[Twalli]

The tartif plan us bad economic policy as any economist will tell you. What he wants to do is goid and all, but he doesn't have the knowledge of how to do it and he won't ask those that do.

[Yohenis]

Trump is based af doing what America should've done a long time ago as a British you're irrelevant

[Crimsyjo]

I know haha. Just curious.

[Bklynbadboy12]

Everything he's done so far is either bad or questionable

[pacificopete]

Joe Biden allowed countries to dump their criminals in America, and Trump is throwing them back out.