Here's What Trump Said He'd Get Done In His First 100 Days. Here's What He's Actually Done.

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  1. highntight

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    Whole lot of crap. No more effort needed, or deserved.
     
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    I don't understand your post.
     
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    60 votes are needed to control the Senate.

    Those federal judges did not refer to the law when rendering their decisions. They are activist judges and ruled politically. The ninth circuit is also activist - ~ 90% of their rulings are overturned by the SCOTUS.

    Health care reform is very close to passing the House. Tax reform will be next as it depends on savings from the health care reform.

    Trump has reestablished the international standing of the US by his dealings with Syria, Russia, North Korea, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, China, Iran.

    All of this in ~ 3 months.
     
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    And upset Nato members and Mexico.
     
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    He's good at motivating stupid people to do things for him, such as vote for him. Bringing one person home... uh who cares in the grand scheme of things? I mean, it's nice, but it's not what we need from a president. It's a publicity stunt that pales in comparison to the importance of what the office is supposed to do much like saving 450 jobs at one company was more stunt than result. If we want to call it a result, it's just a very minor one, a drop in the ocean. So as far as actual, presidential things, I haven't really seen positive results so far. Decreasing immigrants seems to be the major thing that can be attributed to him, but I don't think that's a positive thing. And Gorsuch is another tangible thing, but probably a highly negative thing because he cares more about corporate rights than the rights of real people.
     
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    And those pre-election promises sound bites : "lock her up" & giving back those jobs to the miners
     
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    So were these 6 Muslims who have been in prison for 3 years living alongside many radicalized "terrorists" vetted or have they immediately been allowed to come home?
     
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    This is relevant to the OP. On the news in Australia tonight, there was a segment on farmers in the US who are leaving their crops unharvested as there are no migrant workers available. Is this accurate?
     
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    Even I am no US citizen too ... but same news were reported in my country too. And with some background knowledge they are in my opinion very likely, because these harvest helpers / workers are not big paid for hard work and you rarely find US people to do this job.
     
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    A list of a looser in the link who made only BS and was correctly hindered to do more worse BS by law!
     
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    I think I can easily make a list of all DJ Trumps accomplishments in the first 100 days from memory since it is such a short list:

    1 - revoked a lot of BH Obama executive orders;

    2 - raided Yemen;

    3 - bombed Syria;

    4 - bombed Afghanistan;

    5 - successfully submitted Neil Gorsuch for the SCOTUS.

    That's it.

    You can count this on one hand.

    If you divide 100 days by 5 things that comes to 1 thing every 20 days.

    Good thing he is working for free.

    Q.E.D.

    :D
     
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    I am guessing that the ear plug links him into his security team.

    Just a guess.

    He probably also has a cuff mike that he can talk into.
     
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    ... separate topic ... not exactly an accomplishment by DJ Trump ... however a major victory for the American People.
     
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    Exactly right.

    For some reason people in the GOP somewhere (either far right or elsewhere in the GOP) seem to be having this wet dream that DJ Trump is GOP and/or "conservative".

    Trump is a RINO.
     
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    Really and seriously? 2 x facts and truth as example for things he did really!

    #01
    He makes an unconstitutional order and pronounces an idiotic ban against 7, then only 6 predominantly Islamic countries. Reason: According to his own words to prevent the entry of Islamic terrorists into the US.
    Strange that a single terrorist from all the Islamic terrorist acts has come from one of these countries since 9/11 ... but no one is against the countries where it comes from. Example Iran ... that Iran is on the list, there is no wondering, but in case of terror why again? To prevent the entry of Hezbollah terrorist. Strange ... Hezbollah comes from Lebanon and not from Iran, but is Lebanon on the list? No...

    #02
    He announces the alarming and bad climate protection deal with air pollution, so that the US coal industry and the miners will have jobs that they have lost because of the agreement, because the power stations with coal are therefore less.
    Strange ... the ecological aspect aside from which trump has no idea at all ... the American power plants burn a) cheaper coal from China or b) cheaper natural gas thanks to Fracking in the USA!
    So what does Trump do against the cheap Chinese coal and the cheap American natural gas now, so that US coal is used in the US power stations? Nothing ... absolute silence!
     
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    Too bad Hillary didn't win huh?
     
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    He told them what the apparently needed to hear. That they are blameless, victims and that he would save them. And, they lapped it up.....scary because he was so transparent to anyone that would stop and think.
     
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    Yeah, folks caught on that "progressives" really couldn't give 2 shits about them and the electorate was so disgusted, that they turned to even Trump, rather than the other choices, put up both both establishments. Great post by the way. Very honest portrayal of the "progressive" mindset, compared to the ideals that are the foundation of this nation:.

    About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter.
    If all men are created equal, that is final.
    If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final.
    If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final.
    No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.

    If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.

    No other theory is adequate to explain or comprehend the Declaration of Independence. It is the product of the spiritual insight of the people. We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create our Declaration. Our Declaration created them. The things of the spirit come first. Unless we cling to that, all our material prosperity, overwhelming though it may appear, will turn to a barren sceptre in our grasp.

    ~ Cool Cal

    "The plans differ; the planners are all alike"
    ~ Frederic Bastiat - Economic Harmonies - 1.83

    Read through your post again, note how casually you disregard the individual rights, dreams, freedoms and privileges of the individual in preference for the collective. Our Constitutionally recognized and guaranteed rights stand in the way of the master-planners who wish to herd us to their dreams and goals rather than be restrained by our system's recognition that in our country it is OUR individual rights to follow OUR goals and dreams that are recognized and guaranteed by government. That is the oath our office-keepers take, to forever be restrained by that commitment, and its our job as voters, to rid of the folks who mouth those oaths as empty platitudes and are really in the employ of the master-planners. Their Utopian mindset always ends in tyranny.

    You should turn you backs on them and serve yourself, while respecting the inalienable rights of your fellow citizens to do the same. Where you can cooperate in mutually beneficial transactions, you should, but you are under no compulsion to do so if you prefer not to.
     
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    Who will voters turn against if Trump fails to fulfill his entire agenda?
    Trump, or the corrupt bipartisan DC political establishment that opposes him? ;-)
     
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    The biggest story of Trump’s first 100 days? His survival
    By Michael Goodwin

    April 25, 2017

    Unless the world ends before Saturday, most assessments of President Trump’s first 100 days will include a mix of the good, the bad and the ugly. The emphasis will reveal more about those doing the grading than Trump himself.

    If you liked him from the start, you can cite real progress, such as growing economic confidenceand Trump’s successful meetings with foreign leaders. He is trying to keep faith with his campaign promises, though he failed at repealing ObamaCare.

    If you were immune to his message and the messenger from the beginning, you still are. You see stumbles that suggest White House incompetence, doubt whether Trump fully separated himself from his businesses and worry he’ll start World War III with a tweet.

    Yet the polarized reaction following a polarized election is not the whole story. Because we are not yet at the juncture where anything involving Trump can be taken for granted, the 100-day ritual has special meaning. To understand my point, let’s go back to the beginning — to the wee hours of November 9th.

    When Trump and his family took a Manhattan hotel stage to claim victory, they looked as shell-shocked as the rest of the world. He was scoring a smashing upset by flipping six blue states and adding 100 electoral votes to the 206 Mitt Romney won four years earlier.

    The jubilation among his supporters offered a stark contrast to the weeping and wailing of Hillary Clinton’s. She had called Trump to concede — we learned later she did so only after President Obama insisted — but kept out of sight in the crushing end to her quest.

    Or was it? For within hours, her supporters took their anger to the streets, denouncing Trump as “Not My President” in cities across America. The demonstrations continued for days, and some were punctuated by violence.

    Legal efforts to overturn the election also began. One, led by Green Party candidate Jill Stein, focused on demanding recounts in three states Trump narrowly won — Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Stein looked to be a stalking horse, and Clinton’s team quickly joined the effort.

    A separate challenge to the results focused on persuading Electoral College delegates in red states to switch from Trump to Clinton or even to abstain, in hopes of denying him the necessary majority of 270.

    The desperate feeling in the air cut both ways — the odds against overturning the results were long, but given the shock of Trump’s upset, there was a sense that anything could happen. The pressure felt enormous and the wheels of American democracy might come flying off.

    Clearly, Clinton’s camp held out hope it could steal the election. Her big margin in the popular vote became a rationale, even as she now looked shameless after denouncing Trump during the campaign for his refusal to promise that he wouldn’t contest the results.

    Then the Russians came, or rather the Obama administration unleashed a flood of leaks suggesting Trump’s team had colluded with Russia to tip the election. In December, Obama issued sanctions against officials and firms and expelled 35 Russians from the US while ordering his intelligence chiefs to produce a report within a month — while he was still in office.

    That report concluded that Vladimir Putin directed propaganda outlets and hackers to sabotage the election and discredit Clinton, with the goal of helping Trump. January also brought the sensational Russian dossier on Trump, which looked like a bombshell until it was exposed as a dud.

    No matter, the hothouse talk of impeachment grew, and social media carried numerous posts about assassination. Madonna talked of blowing up the White House and others spoke ominously of “stopping” Trump.

    Each outrage was quickly replaced by a new one, with shadowy stories about the Trump team’s contact with Russia appearing on the eve of his inauguration. With violence rising in Washington’s streets even as the historic ceremony began, it seemed possible the handover of power might not be peaceful. The next day, massive women’s marches took place in major cities to protest the new president.

    Yet here we are, and Donald J. Trump is still America’s 45th president. His survival is the biggest story of his first 100 days.

    Trump has sometimes been very good — Neil Gorsuch is on the Supreme Court — but he has been spectacularly lucky in his enemies, with the Democratic Party determined to destroy itself in a spiral of vicious radicalism. A new poll says 67 percent of Americans think the Dems are out of touch with their concerns, making Trump’s historically low approval rating of 42 percent look respectable.

    The media, of course, is still biased and, after failing to elect Clinton, turned on Trump with savagery and cartoonish exaggerations. One New York Times story actually said his cabinet met in the dark because nobody knew how to turn on the White House lights. Oh, please.

    At some point, the president will not be gifted with such low expectations and hapless opponents. We are probably close to that phase when the world comes to accept as fact Trump’s presidency.

    That doesn’t mean everything will be normal, but it does mean he will be judged by customary standards: whether he is earning the trust of more Americans and getting big things done with Congress.

    If he does, and I remain optimistic, he will be a consequential president who made America better and safer.

    And if he’s really, really good, he might even make it great again. We should all want that.


    The fact that he has done as much as he has against the relentless attacks and obfuscation by the hateful whiny Left is an accomplishment unto itself. It is time for the Left to slink back into the woodwork and let him do the job that the American people voted him in to do. As I have said, America is watching these Libs make total fools of themselves and even mainstream Democrats are disgusted with the hijacking of their party by these elite, out-of-touch with reality buffoons who are acting like terrorists. They never learn. Perez has been booed on his disunity tour. He has said that if future Democrat candidates don't embrace abortion, the DNC will not back them. Crazy? Yes! Then you have lefty judges who were appointed, not elected, dictating their ideology instead of rule of law. I guess they don't call it the "Nutty Ninth" for no reason. They have certainly earned the moniker...
    People are tired of their hatred and whine. Get a job and get lives...
     

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    The 'elites' you mention are Trump, and his billionaire yacht-owning, private plane-flying, £200,000 per year golf club membership, cabinet. Congratulations; you re-filled the swamp with even more bottom-feeders.
     
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    Outside of the SCOTUS appointment, I don't know of anybody who actually expected Trump to get anything done in the first 100 days.

    Everybody knew his campaign promises were hollow rhetoric and BS.

    Politics 101.
     
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