Trump Administration: What *exactly* has it accomplished?

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white supremacy.

 

According to Trump:

Trump Administration Accomplishments

• Almost 4 million jobs created since election.
• More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history.
• We have created more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs since my election.
• Manufacturing jobs growing at the fastest rate in more than THREE DECADES.
• Economic growth last quarter hit 4.2 percent.
• New unemployment claims recently hit a 49-year low.
• Median household income has hit highest level ever recorded.
• African-American unemployment has recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
• Hispanic-American unemployment is at the lowest rate ever recorded.
• Asian-American unemployment recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
• Women’s unemployment recently reached the lowest rate in 65 years.
• Youth unemployment has recently hit the lowest rate in nearly half a century.
• Lowest unemployment rate ever recorded for Americans without a high school diploma.
• Under my Administration, veterans’ unemployment recently reached its lowest rate in nearly 20 years.
• Almost 3.9 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps since the election.
• The Pledge to America’s Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans. We are committed to VOCATIONAL education.
• 95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future—the highest ever.
• Retail sales surged last month, up another 6 percent over last year.
• Signed the biggest package of tax cuts and reforms in history. After tax cuts, over $300 billion poured back in to the U.S. in the first quarter alone.
• As a result of our tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.
• Helped win U.S. bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
• Helped win U.S.-Mexico-Canada’s united bid for 2026 World Cup.
• Opened ANWR and approved Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines.
• Record number of regulations eliminated.
• Enacted regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.
• Obamacare individual mandate penalty GONE.
• My Administration is providing more affordable healthcare options for Americans through association health plans and short-term duration plans.
• Last month, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history. And thanks to our efforts, many drug companies are freezing or reversing planned price increases.
• We reformed the Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugs—saving seniors hundreds of millions of dollars this year alone.
• Signed Right-To-Try legislation.
• Secured $6 billion in NEW funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
• We have reduced high-dose opioid prescriptions by 16 percent during my first year in office.
• Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.
• Increased our coal exports by 60 percent; U.S. oil production recently reached all-time high.
• United States is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957.
• Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord.
• Cancelled the illegal, anti-coal, so-called Clean Power Plan.
• Secured record $700 billion in military funding; $716 billion next year.
• NATO allies are spending $69 billion more on defense since 2016.
• Process has begun to make the Space Force the 6th branch of the Armed Forces.
• Confirmed more circuit court judges than any other new administration.
• Confirmed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
• Withdrew from the horrible, one-sided Iran Deal.
• Moved U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
• Protecting Americans from terrorists with the Travel Ban, upheld by Supreme Court.
• Issued Executive Order to keep open Guantanamo Bay.
• Concluded a historic U.S.-Mexico Trade Deal to replace NAFTA. And negotiations with Canada are underway as we speak.
• Reached a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S. exports.
• Imposed tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum to protect our national security.
• Imposed tariffs on China in response to China’s forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices.
• Net exports are on track to increase by $59 billion this year.
• Improved vetting and screening for refugees, and switched focus to overseas resettlement.
• We have begun BUILDING THE WALL. Republicans want STRONG BORDERS and NO CRIME. Democrats want OPEN BORDERS which equals MASSIVE CRIME.

 

You never realize the impact of the highest percentage of divorce rates in America until it shows up in your p*rn tabs. Would have never known step-brother/step-sister fetish was a thing if it wasn't for internet p*rn.

Then you think divorce rates used to be 50% and think of all the second, third and fourth attempts at marriage some people go through in this world and it starts to make sense. Eventually your dad's fifth attempt at true love with a woman in her 30s even though he's in 50s has dispatched you with a hot twenty something step-sister from the step-mom whose name is a blur with the prior four marriages. She's not really related to you anyways right? Why not beat off to that fantasy?

Thus the fetish of the step-brother/step-sister p*rn fetish was born. Who'd have known the consequences of so many failed marriages would result in a specific internet p*rn fetish that's probably a top search in 2019? Thanks boomers.

 

and now for reality:

https://www.factcheck.org/2019/10/trumps-numbers-october-2019-update/

Summary
Since President Donald Trump took office:

• The economy added 6 million jobs, and the unemployment rate dropped to the lowest level in nearly 50 years.
• Economic growth fell far short of the annual 4% to 6% Trump promised. The most recent rate is 2.0%.
• The federal debt went up more than $2.4 trillion. The annual deficit hit nearly $1 trillion in fiscal year 2019 – the highest since 2012.
• Median household income rose 2.3%. Average weekly paychecks rose 2.8%. The poverty rate and food stamp rolls declined.
• Stock prices rose: The S&P 500 index was up 29.8%. Single-family home prices rose nearly 23%, hitting a record level in June.
• The trade deficit — which Trump promised to reduce — went up 30%.
• The number of Americans lacking health insurance rose nearly 2 million.
• The number of murders dropped 6.9%. But the number of rapes went up.
• Illegal border crossings nearly doubled, as of the most recent 12 months on record.
• Trump has filled 43 seats on federal appeals courts, compared with 25 filled by Obama at the same point in his first term.

Analysis
This is our seventh quarterly update of the “Trump’s Numbers” scorecard that we posted in January 2018 and have updated every three months, most recently on July 12. We’ll publish additional updates every three months, as fresh statistics become available.

Here we’ve included statistics that may seem good or bad or just neutral, depending on the reader’s point of view. That’s the way we did it when we posted our first “Obama’s Numbers” article seven years ago — and in the quarterly updates and final summary that followed. And we’ve maintained the same practice under Trump.

This update includes comprehensive looks at crime, income and poverty during the president’s first two years in office. The FBI’s report of crime rates for all of 2018 was released Sept. 30, and the Census Bureau’s figures for median annual household income, poverty levels and health insurance coverage during 2018 were released Sept. 10. Other statistics are released quarterly, monthly and sometimes daily, and we include here the most recent available as of this date.

Then as now, we make no judgment as to how much credit or blame any president deserves for things that happen during his time in office. Opinions differ on that.

 

Their deep dive into jobs:



Jobs and Unemployment
Job growth slowed a bit under Trump, but unemployment dropped to the lowest level in nearly half a century.

Employment — Total nonfarm employment grew by 6,027,000 since the president took office, according to the most recent figures available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

That continued an unbroken chain of monthly gains in total employment that started in October 2010. The economy has now added jobs for 108 consecutive months — just shy of nine years — including the first 32 months of the Trump administration.

The average monthly gain under Trump so far is 188,000 — compared with an average monthly gain of 217,000 during Obama’s second term. Trump is far behind the pace needed to fulfill his campaign boast that he will be “the greatest jobs president that God ever created.”

Unemployment — The unemployment rate, which was well below the historical norm when Trump took office, has continued to fall to the lowest rate in nearly half a century.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics now figures the rate was 4.7% when he was sworn in. The most recent rate, for September, fell to 3.5%. That’s the lowest since December 1969, nearly 50 years ago, when it was also 3.5%.

The jobless rate has been at or below 4% for the most recent 19 months — all under Trump. It hasn’t been that low for that long since a 50-month streak ending in January 1970.

The historical norm is 5.6%, which is the median monthly rate for all the months since the start of 1948.

Job Openings — One reason employment growth has slowed is a shortage of qualified workers.

The number of unfilled job openings hit more than 7.6 million in November and again in January, the highest in the 18 years the BLS has tracked this figure.

As of the last day of August, the most recent figure on record, it was nearly 7.1 million. That’s a gain of 1.4 million unfilled job openings — or 25.4% — since Trump took office.

In March of last year the number of job openings exceeded the number of unemployed people looking for work for the first time on record. And that’s been the case in every month since. In August, there were 1 million more job openings than there were people seeking jobs.

Labor Force Participation — Despite the abundance of jobs, the labor force participation rate — which went down 2.8 percentage points during the Obama years — is up slightly under Trump.

The labor force participation rate is the portion of the entire civilian population age 16 and older that is either employed or currently looking for work in the last four weeks. Republicans often criticized Obama for the decline during his time, even though it was due mostly to the post-World War II baby boomers reaching retirement age, and other demographic factors beyond the control of any president.

Since Trump took office, the rate has fluctuated in a narrow range between 63.2% and 62.7%. It was at the high end of that range in September — 0.3 percentage points above where it was the month Trump took office.

Manufacturing Jobs — Manufacturing jobs increased under Trump, but the growth has stalled recently.

The number rose by 482,000 between Trump’s inauguration and September. That followed a net decrease of 193,000 under Obama.

But the early growth during Trump’s term has faded. At first, manufacturing jobs increased even faster than total employment. But Trump’s trade disputes and tariffs have taken a toll on the manufacturing sector. During the first nine months of this year, the number of factory jobs rose 0.2%, while total employment rose four times as fast.

During all of Trump’s tenure, the grown in manufacturing jobs has been 3.9%, below the 4.1% growth for all jobs.

The number of manufacturing jobs is still 896,000 below where it was in December 2007, at the start of the Great Recession.

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The article goes on to explain each point they made and back it up with facts.

 

For his voters his tax cut and making it tougher to cross the border

 

Trump did pass criminal justice reform which Obama was unable to get passed so I will give him credit for that.

I will also give him credit for meeting with Kim Jong Un. While nothing has come out of this I think it was a worthwhile attempt.

He also did renegotiate NAFTA and while it is basically just an updated treaty and not the protectionist document that some might’ve wanted its something that needed to be done. Now getting it ratified is another matter.

Some things that I don’t agree with but could be considered accomplishments. He pulled out of the Iran Treaty and the Paris agreement. Two things that Republicans had been pressing for. He has cut many regulations.

 

The complete and total transformation of Lindsey Graham

 

Trump's sole accomplishment: Undo everything Obama accomplished, appoint a few judges, and hand over the keys to Putin

 

How many coal mining jobs did he promise? I just know it was a ****in' lot.

 

McConnell is the one who did that.

Trump's largest achievement was making Trumpanzees feel they got their country back from whatever boogeymen they were blaming all their problems on. For example, Obama deported more people but Trump's dumbass hyperbolic rhetoric made Trumpanzees think he was doing more which is always Trump's con. Trump's next largest achievement is constantly attacking institutions, mostly with lies, such as to generate doubt and hatred in them. This second "achievement" is incredibly dangerous for the future of our country because Trump has no plan to fix any actual deficiencies in our institutions and it lays the framework for a much more intelligent demagogue to perfect this tactic in the future

 

[Slate] Smugglers Are Using $100 Hardware Store Power Tools to Saw Holes in Trump’s $10 Billion Wall

 

*achievement unlocked*

 

This is what I hear from among my conservative relatives. For them cutting taxes equals good no matter that we are now borrowing the money to pay for even more spending than ever. And of course if you mention budget deficits it’s but what about Obama and it’s all the illegals fault for being on welfare.

These are the same people who were laid off by a Mega Corp and are too young for Medicare so they live in fear of getting sick and needing expensive care. Of course they fully support the deregulation of Mega Corps industry and the tax cuts that help enrich the company that dropped them like a bad habit when oil dropped all the while aghast at Socialists like Warren and Bernie who would help them get healthcare coverage.

This is Trumps core complete with yard signs and bumper stickers.

How do you argue with that kind of stupidity?

 

More achievements.


U.S. air pollution is worsening after improving for years
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/increa...ncide-with-deadly-decline-in-u-s-air-quality/

For years, the quality of the air Americans breathe had been steadily improving, but that trend is showing signs of unraveling thanks in part to U.S. economic gains that come with potentially deadly ramifications.

After a seven-year stretch of improvement, between 2016 and 2018 the amount of pollutants in the nation's air rose, according to a new analysis of Environmental Protection Agency data by two economists at Carnegie Mellon. They found that particulate matter air pollution fell 24% in the U.S. from 2009 to 2016, but it increased 5.5% the following two years.

"That increase was associated with 9,700 premature deaths in 2018," wrote Karen Clay and Nicholas Muller in a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Behind the rise in air pollution

The researchers say three factors could explain the increase in air pollution: stronger economic growth in recent years, an increase in wildfires and weakened federal "clean air" rules.

The pickup in economic activity over the last few years — while a plus for workers and businesses — has resulted in more trucks and other polluting-emitting vehicles on the roads, as well as boosted manufacturers' carbon emissions, Clay and Muller noted.

"The chemical composition of particulates point to increased use of natural gas and to vehicle miles traveled as likely contributors to the increase" in pollution, the economists wrote. "We conclude that the effect is due to diesel vehicles as well as some industrial boilers."

The findings could bolster theories advanced by experts such as Oxford University economist Kate Raworth who argue that unrestrained economic growth is contributing to climate change.

Clay and Muller also linked increased airborne carbon particles partly to an increase in wildfires in the West since 2016.

"Because of these large increases and the large exposed population in California, we find that nearly 43% of the increase in deaths nationally from 2016 to 2018 occurred in California," they said.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, wildfires release large amounts of carbon dioxide and other ozone precursors into the atmosphere, along with toxic pollutants that can harm people living both nearby and far away.

The researchers also point to a decline in EPA enforcement of the Clean Air Act as a factor that could explain worsening air quality. The law, established in 1970, is responsible for preventing hundreds of thousands of premature deaths and hundreds of millions of cases of respiratory and heart disease, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, an advocacy group.

 

Make Walls Great Again.

 

The Wall thing is kind of interesting from a technical perspective. If a metal pipe runs 30, 40 feet vertically, then it's true. If you saw through it, you could just push it where you want. Where, if the wall weren't so tall, it would be much hard to push those vertical pipes around.

The whole endeavor is just so dumb when the American drug market and the human smuggling market are so profitable. A wall just helps smugglers (of drugs, of humans, of both) charge more for their services.

 

Shocking that about 30% of this country is too lazy to look into the truth of this loser.

DD