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Some believe President Trump is the greatest president since George Washington. Others believe he is the worst since Jimmy Carter. As someone schooled in government (Fels Government Center, Wharton School, U of Penn) and with over 40 years of working with the Federal government and few years work with a State government and a large city government, I thought I’d use my perspective on the Trump presidency as a 1/2 conservative, 1/2 classic liberal and look at the pros and cons of Trump’s governing.
To be perfectly fair, it’s difficult for a multi-billionaire, President, married a wonderful woman, and having raised 5 successful children, to be humble. Therefore, when Trump goes overboard with bragging about his accomplishments, I understand (but do not condone) his style.
One negative about President Trump is that he is thin-skinned and rebuts or comments on every criticism directed at him. He gives his enemies credibility by even bothering to comment on the absurd criticisms which they repeat from Mainstream Media. He strongly believes in hitting back, which he thinks will stifle more attacks. President Trump’s sometimes inarticulateness and lack of precision and specificity is another one of his negatives. A good example is his claim of millions of fraudulent votes in the 2016 presidential election. He should have immediately followed his comment up with citations to about half-dozen studies showing that he was right and then cited specific examples that people can better relate to, such as comedian Al Franken stealing the Minnesota Senatorial election from Norm Coleman in 2008.
Trump’s critics accuse him of lying but he and his supporters often do not provide enough specifics to counter their spurious claims. Their claims can easily be demolished in a few minutes so I know it’s possible. I’ll cite just one example, President Trump’s first-term inaugural swearing in crowd-size disagreement: the Obama photo of his inauguration crowd size and the Trump photo were obviously taken from different vantage points, Obama’s from a low height looking out over the podium, Trump’s from the high top of the Washington monument, looking from the back of the crowd. In addition, the photos were taken at different times of day: the Obama photo at noon when he was sworn in, the Trump photo at about 11 am, about an hour prior to Trump’s swearing in when the crowd wasn’t all there yet. I know this to be true because I watched the proceedings all inaugural morning. However, I believe President Trump should have simply brushed it off by saying something, “no big deal, we had a lot of people and so did President Obama.”
All of the negative “cons” concern President Trump’s personal shortcomings, as well as things that he said or did’nt say. Now let’s look at the “pros,” those positive features of President Trump’s presidency. He has done more in his time as President than any other President in American history that I know of. The Sunday morning political shows are pitiful in explaining this, only looking at legislative accomplishments. His tax cuts and jobs act in his first term stimulated the economy to unbelievable highs and unemployment to new lows. The Big, Beautiful Bill in his second term made permanent the tax cuts that were to expire on January 1, 2026.
Within a few weeks of beginning his second term, President Trump stopped all of the illegal immigration coming into the U.S. from our southern border. He also used Executive Actions, mostly Executive Orders, to get many things done, like temporary immigration bans from countries that have poor records of vetting citizens, of reversing duplicative regulations that kill jobs and hamper job creation, of enforcing immigration laws, etc., etc., etc. In addition, President Trump has persuaded many large corporations to pledge billions for new plants and jobs in America. Moreover, due to his Reagan-like economic plan and pledges from many business leaders, the stock market has hugely increased in value since the day Trump was elected president.
But his most important achievement is his confronting Iran and removing its lunatic leaders from developing nuclear weapons. Both African-American and Hispanic-American employment is highest in history and female employment is the highest since the 1950’s. President Trump has earned the reputation of sleeping only a few hours/night…of being an unbelievably hard-worker. Were it not for fake news on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, New York Times and the Washington Post, I believe the President’s approval would be about 65%. Instead of what it is today.
In evaluating President Trump, it is most important to separate his words from his deeds. Whether you agree or disagree with what President Trump is doing, he has already fulfilled many of his campaign promises and has pledged to fulfill them all.
