Pew Research U.S. ranking by our allies worst in history under Trump.

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  1. 61falcon

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    The Pew Research Center annual rankings of the USA under Trump by our allies including United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Canada and Australia are the worst in the two decades they have done the report. They rank us the lowest of all nations for our response to the Covid pandemic. They have less trust in Trump than they do for Putin or Xi.
     
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  2. Rush_is_Right

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    Another poll...lol
     
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    Read the report in Business Insider.
     
  4. Rush_is_Right

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    Do you have a link? Please post a link, I want to be sure I see the same thing you do. Link?
     
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    As the swamp is being drained the foreign countries are losing USA aid and having to pony up their financial dues to world organizations. Uncle Sam (Trump) is weaning them from the USA teat. Why would they like him. Their opinion is not important. What Trump is doing is for the American people.
     
  6. ECA

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    You actually believe Trump has been "draining the swamp"?
    Ironically, Trump himself issued an executive order early-on in his administration that theoretically prevents former administration officials from lobbying the agency or office where they worked for a period of five years. It’s also supposed to prohibit political appointees from lobbying the administration while Trump is in office—all part of his “drain the swamp” campaign promise. Shockingly, that’s not quite how things have played out. Per the AP, at least five former members of the Trump administration are potentially in violation of the rule, including the wife of ex-White House counsel Don McGahn
    Trump-connected lobbyists are reportedly popular in helping businesses win the designation of “essential” or “critical,” a title that “can allow businesses to continue operating despite the pandemic and may give them some defense against lawsuits for unreasonably endangering workers or the public,” per the AP. LaundryLux, a supplier of commercial laundry machines, looked to lobbyist Brian Ballard in March, after the Department of Homeland Security did not include laundry services as an essential business to operate during the coronavirus crisis. Eight days after his firm, Ballard Partners, was hired, the DHS issued follow-up guidance deeming laundry services essential. Ballard was part of Trump’s presidential transition and is the finance chair for the Republican National Committee; he has reportedly bundled more than $1 million for Trump’s fundraising committees.

    https://www.vanityfair.com/news/202...n-the-swamp-promise-was-a-load-of-hot-garbage

    Here are five ways Donald Trump has made the swamp even swampier.

    1. He has packed his administration with former lobbyists and corporate executives. He has installed a former Boeing executive to run the Defense Department; a former pharmaceutical lobbyist to run the Department of Health and Human Services; a former coal lobbyist to run the Environmental Protection Agency, and a former oil lobbyist to run the Department of the Interior. In total, more than 300 lobbyists now work in the Trump administration – many in key positions overseeing the industries they used to lobby for.

    2. He and his family are personally profiting from the presidency. Despite Trump’s promise he’d sever all ties with his existing businesses and place all assets in a “blind” trust to eliminate any conflicts of interest, documents show Trump remains the sole beneficiary of his trust and still retains the legal power to revoke the trust at any time. Meanwhile, foreign dignitaries have flooded Trump’s hotels, lining his pockets in clear violation of the Constitution. He even attempted to host the G-7 at his own luxury golf course until he was forced to back down.

    3. He is catering to billionaires and corporations at the expense of the American people. In the fall of 2017, mega-donors shelled out more than $31 million in political contributions to Trump and Republicans. And in return, they got a massive $2 trillion tax cut. Not a bad return on investment. As Trump told his wealthy friends at Mar-a-Lago just days after the tax bill became law, “You all just got a lot richer.”

    4. He is using taxpayer dollars to subsidize his luxurious lifestyle. Since taking office, Trump’s golf trips alone have cost taxpayers more than $110 million dollars. His children have also charged taxpayers for costs associated with business trips around the world that they’ve taken, including India and Uruguay. Taxpayers even footed the bill for Donald Trump Junior’s hunting trip to Canada.

    5. The Trump administration has been riddled with scandals and ethics violations. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross held on to investments and never divested despite pledging to avoid even the appearance of conflict of interest. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has tried to arrange meetings with Chinese officials for her family business. Ethics officials have found Kellyanne Conway broke laws that prohibit government workers from engaging in political activities. The list goes on, and on. This has been the most corrupt administration in American history.
     
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    Your list is typical of all presidents. I'll admit Trump is like most presidents in some ways, but he is certainly different in many ways. I'll not bore everyone with all the good ways Trump has helped the USA with a long list. A list that most presidents could not achieve. I like to call that draining the swamp. Call Trump all the names you want but it's easy to see he is better at running the country than our last 5 or 6 presidents.
     
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    I'm just pointing out he hasn't actually drained the swamp.
     
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    Trump called them out and told them all to suit up, fly right, and pay their bills. That pissed them off.
     
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    Naturally he hasn't literally "drained the swamp" but I say the phrase is somewhat of a Trump euphemism. He is doing what other presidents only said they would do.

    It sure did and Trump did the right thing -- unlike our past presidents who were giving away the store and sticking our taxpaying citizens with the bills. You could say that was part of draining the swamp.
     
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    He promised to drain the swamp and has done no such thing
     
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    By the same kind of people who have become woke, and now know riot is peaceful protest, and that white police intentionally prey on the black people whose history of being five times more likely to murder or rob is just racial discrimination?

    Facts are still available for you to form a realistic opinion from. However you have to dig for them, you cannot rely on the MSM to give you honest facts- and you must be skeptical, requiring corroboration or high levels of credibility- and you must have at least a basic sense of recognition and aversion to obvious BS, no matter how well it serves your personal narrative. People who lack that are being herded everyday, and insisting they are "smart".
     
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    A link from the king of the all caps one liner hit and run?
    :roflol::roflol::roflol::roflol::roflol::roflol:
     
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    Well then he should be tarred and feathered and rode out of town on a rail. You go ahead and vote for the man in the basement who doesn't know what state he is in or the difference between his wife and sister and supports BLM and Antifa and has promised to raise taxes and says he is running on the Harris/Biden ticket while his VP pick says it will be the Harris administration. Looney Tunes. You should consider changing from a D to an R and be honest with yourself.
     
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    Hahaha...no need to get so reactionary just because I pointed out something factual. It's also odd that you would assume, based on me pointing out something factual, that I am a Dem and that I would vote for Biden. I am not a Dem and I will NOT be voting for Biden. Carry on.
     
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    Ok, fair enough.
    Since you say Trump hasn't drained the swamp I would like to hear your definition of what draining the swamp would mean to you?
     
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    Not surprised by this...Trump has been hard on our allies that have been taking advantage of us for years....not surprised that the poll highlights the last 20 years....almost half of which was Obama/Biden...who gave away the kitchen sink to our allies and turned a blind eye to them taking advantage of the American people via horrible, unfair trade deals
     
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    Doing the opposite of what I provided in post #6. But to be quite honest...I don't expect the swamp to ever be drained by ANY president. Saying he was going to drain the swamp was lip service. Being an outsider politically he knew he could get away with saying it as he knew people would fall for it. I give him, or his advisors, credit for coming up with it as it worked well.
     
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    Trump isn’t a pushover. Good for him! They need to pony up and they don’t like it. Their little liberal world is topsy turvy...
     
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    Apparently they read U.S. media.
     
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    He's done the opposite of what HE said he would do.
     
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    They are reacting to reality.
     
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    Perhaps they are. Perhaps they are not. I have no idea.
     
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    Which is all the evidence you need to prove that propaganda works. If you hadn't noticed, according to the MSM everything single thing that Trump does is evil, stupid and wrong. We know the cause, the result was inevitable.

    That the world trusts a leader ACTIVELY engaged in a genocide in his own country and ACTIVELY engaged in the erasure of ALL human rights in Hong Kong proves beyond all doubt that the MSM is hopelessly broken and compromised.
     
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    I would expect as such. Most are EU socialists who want a piece of America's economic pie. American individualism and self-responsibility counters that, so yea.. they don't like it.

    I say, tough. Boo hoo. We shouldn't be catering to their every whim and providing so much to them. We should continue our humanitarian work, but if they want our support in other areas, they need to either step up or pay us for it.
     

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