July 20 was the six-month mark of Donald Trump’s presidency. It is appropriate to consider what President Trump has accomplished. CNN reviewed some of Trump’s activities and I have noted some other significant milestones.
At this point, Donald Trump’s approval rating stands at 38.3%, the lowest of any President at this juncture. Yet, in the counties that Donald Trump won in the 2016 election, his approval rating is 50% .The Trump people are hanging tough in spite of mounting evidence that they have been sold a pig in a poke and the pig is stealing from them.
In six months, Donald Trump has written 991 tweets. That is 165 tweets a month. He has given one news conference and attended five self-aggrandizing rallies. Trump has signed 42 bills or executive orders of one kind or another. He has passed zero pieces of significant legislation, even though Republicans control both houses of Congress. Donald Trump’s travel ban was only recently allowed to go into effect to a limited degree after failing court challenges time and again. Trump has failed to provide any proof of the widespread illegal voting he claims existed. He has managed to draw the ire of a majority of states, both Democrat and Republican, as he has launched a fishing expedition for voter information. (Sadly, Missouri is not one of the states standing up to the President’s probing of sensitive voter information and voter history.) Congress has failed repeatedly to make progress on Trump’s campaign promise to repeal and replace ObamaCare within one day. No progress has been made on a budget. A large number of presidential appointment remain unfilled because Trump has not made the appointment.
Trump has withdrawn the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and our allies in Asia are turning to China as the dominant economic power in the region. Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Accords, to the consternation of every ally America has.
During the first 26 weeks of his presidency, Donald Trump has spent 21 weekends in Mar-A-Lago or at another Trump property. He has spent 40 days golfing at Trump golf courses.
Trump has made no progress on his wall, other than to decide that it must be a solar power source and must be transparent. The transparency is a feature he added to protect people near the wall on the U.S side from being struck by 60 lb. bags of drugs being somehow thrown over a 40-foot wall. Supposedly this will help individuals see the bags coming. It does not address the problem of bags thrown over the wall during the night, unless the entire wall is brightly illuminated. Mexico is even further away from contributing one peso to Trump’s wall and has been quite emphatic about it.
Trump’s Attorney General has had to recuse himself from an investigation into activities involving the Trump campaign and Russia aimed at furthering Russian influence over the U.S. election. Trump says that he would not have offered the job to Jeff Sessions if he had known Sessions would recuse himself, thereby implying that the primary quality an attorney general must possess is pliability in protecting the president from investigations into allegations of criminal activity. Trump has fired his FBI Director for not backing off the investigation and a Special Prosecutor has been appointed and is investigating the Trump-Russia alliance.
After meeting with Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Conference in Berlin, Trump ordered the CIA to stop sending support to forces fighting ISIS that were also opposed to the Assad regime. This withdrawal of support is something that both Russia and Assad have long sought.
Are you tired of winning yet?
Submitted by Michael Pfeifer, WCD Member
A late addition. President Trump’s personal lawyers are reportedly debating and investigating whether the President can pardon himself. So. New legal ground being made history. The Trump Legacy.
If Trump continues at this pace, we will be treated to nearly 8,000 tweets in four years. My bet is that the Commander-in-Tweet can top that and beat expectations.