Trump Accomplishments

Started by Solar, December 13, 2020, 07:41:33 PM

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Solar

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020.

Bill Newgent:
Thank you for what I take as a genuine interest in why I, and people like me, supported the Republican nominee, Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020.Your curiosity was aroused after I insisted my vote was cast fully appreciating Trump's manifest flaws, in both  personality and character. The following breaks it down by election year.

Policies I supported in 2016.
1. Renegotiating NAFTA to save American low-skill jobs.
2. Initiatives to prevent illegal immigration including building a barrier.
3. Rethinking our financial commitments to countries that demonized America.
4. Cutting business regulation which was strangling small and medium-sized farms, industry and private retailers,
5. Starting with an American First philosophy in foreign policy.
6. Reducing the tax burden on the middle class.
7. Preventing the influence of large political donors on the White House.
8. Reducing the influence of K street.
9.  Avoiding foreign entanglements that lead to military intervention.
10. Winding down our wars in the Middle East.
11. An uncompromising stand against the ISIS caliphate but with an intention to avoid boots on the ground.
12. Concentration on China, not Russia, as our primary international foe.
13. Calling out the 'politically correct' trumpeters for the negative impact on free speech.
14. Challenging the hate mongers promoting identity politics.
15. Withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord (which treats similar countries differently)
16. Withdrawing from the Iran Deal (since it is essentially unenforceable and doesn't address the long term problems.
17. Bringing attention to media bias.

These were the positive (in my view). policies promised by Trump in 2016. If one would include the policies promoted by Hillary Clinton, which I opposed, that would greatly expand the number of reasons I voted for Donald Trump in 2016.

As for the election of 2020, I'll refer you to the list presented by Peroneau Vandehey in an article on April 18, 2020. Clearly, it includes legislation the President had little influence on but gives an overall summation. The key accomplishments that influenced my personal vote are highlighted in bold type. Keep in mind that like democrats, republicans not only support most of their party nominee's policies but also oppose most of his or her opponents.
Article below is found at https://frankreport.com/2020/04/18/one-hundred-twenty-five-amazing-accomplishments-of-president-donald-j-trump/

Trump recently signed three bills to benefit Native people. One gives compensation to the Spokane tribe for loss of their lands in the mid-1900s, one funds Native language programs, and the third gives federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Montana.
Trump finalized the creation of the Space Force as our 6th Military branch.
Trump signed a law to make cruelty to animals a federal felony so that animal abusers face tougher consequences.
Violent crime has fallen every year he's been in office after rising during the two years before he was elected.
Trump signed a bill making CBD and Hemp legal.
Trump's EPA gave $100 million to fix the water infrastructure problem in Flint, Michigan.
Under Trump's leadership, in 2018 the U.S. surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world's largest producer of crude oil.
Trump signed a law ending the gag orders on pharmacists that prevented them from sharing money-saving information.
Trump signed the "Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act" (FOSTA), which includes the "Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act" (SESTA) which both give law enforcement and victims new tools to fight sex trafficking.
Trump signed a bill to require airports to provide spaces for breastfeeding moms.
The 25% lowest-paid Americans enjoyed a 4.5% income boost in November 2019, which outpaces a 2.9% gain in earnings for the country's highest-paid workers.
Low-wage workers are benefiting from higher minimum wages and from corporations that are increasing entry-level pay.
Trump signed the biggest wilderness protection & conservation bill in a decade and designated 375,000 acres as protected land.
Trump signed the Save our Seas Act which funds $10 million per year to clean tons of plastic & garbage from the ocean.
He signed a bill this year allowing some drug imports from Canada so that prescription prices would go down.
Trump signed an executive order this year that forces all healthcare providers to disclose the cost of their services so that Americans can comparison shop and know how much less providers charge insurance companies.
When signing that bill he said no American should be blindsided by bills for medical services they never agreed to in advance.
Hospitals will now be required to post their standard charges for services, which include the discounted price a hospital is willing to accept.
In the eight years prior to President Trump's inauguration, prescription drug prices increased by an average of 3.6% per year. Under Trump, drug prices have seen year-over-year declines in nine of the last ten months, with a 1.1% drop as of the most recent month.
He created a White House VA Hotline to help veterans and principally staffed it with veterans and direct family members of veterans.
VA employees are being held accountable for poor performance, with more than 4,000 VA employees removed, demoted, and suspended so far.
Issued an executive order requiring the Secretaries of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs to submit a joint plan to provide veterans access to access to mental health treatment as they transition to civilian life.
Because of a bill signed and championed by Trump, in 2020, most federal employees will see their pay increase by an average of 3.1% — the largest raise in more than 10 years.
Trump signed into a law up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for millions of federal workers.
Trump administration will provide HIV prevention drugs for free to 200,000 uninsured patients per year for 11 years.
All-time record sales during the 2019 holidays.
Trump signed an order allowing small businesses to group together when buying insurance to get a better price.
President Trump signed the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act that provides funding for states to develop maternal mortality reviews to better understand maternal complications and identify solutions & largely focuses on reducing the higher mortality rates for Black Americans.
In 2018, President Trump signed the groundbreaking First Step Act, a criminal justice bill that enacted reforms that make our justice system fairer and help former inmates successfully return to society.
The First Step Act's reforms addressed inequities in sentencing laws that disproportionately harmed Black Americans and reformed mandatory minimums that created unfair outcomes.
The First Step Act expanded judicial discretion in sentencing of non-violent crimes.
Over 90% of those benefiting from the retroactive sentencing reductions in the First Step Act are Black Americans.
The First Step Act provides rehabilitative programs to inmates, helping them successfully rejoin society and not return to crime.
Trump increased funding for historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) by more than 14%.
Trump signed legislation forgiving Hurricane Katrina debt that threatened HBCUs.
New single-family home sales are up 31.6% in October 2019 compared to just one year ago.
Made HBCUs a priority by creating the position of executive director of the White House Initiative on HBCUs.
Trump received the Bipartisan Justice Award at a historically black college for his criminal justice reform accomplishments.
The poverty rate fell to a 17-year low of 11.8% under the Trump administration as a result of a jobs-rich environment.
Poverty rates for African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans have reached their lowest levels since the U.S. began collecting such data.
President Trump signed a bill that creates five national monuments, expands several national parks, adds 1.3 million acres of wilderness, and permanently reauthorizes the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
Trump's USDA committed $124 Million to rebuild rural water infrastructure.
[Prior to the unexpected coronavirus pandemic] Consumer confidence & small business confidence is at an all time high.
[Prior to the unexpected coronavirus pandemic] More than 7 million jobs created since election.
[Prior to the unexpected coronavirus pandemic] More Americans were employed than ever recorded before in our history.
More than 400,000 manufacturing jobs created since his election.
Trump appointed five openly gay ambassadors.
Trump ordered Ric Grenell, his openly gay ambassador to Germany, to lead a global initiative to decriminalize homosexuality across the globe.
Through Trump's Anti-Trafficking Coordination Team (ACTeam) initiative, Federal law enforcement more than doubled convictions of human traffickers and increased the number of defendants charged by 75% in ACTeam districts.
In 2018, the Department of Justice (DOJ) dismantled an organization that was the internet's leading source of prostitution-related advertisements resulting in sex trafficking.
Trump's OMB published new anti-trafficking guidance for government procurement officials to more effectively combat human trafficking.
Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations arrested 1,588 criminals associated with Human Trafficking.
Trump's Department of Health and Human Services provided funding to support the National Human Trafficking Hotline to identify perpetrators and give victims the help they need.
The hotline identified 16,862 potential human trafficking cases.
Trump's DOJ provided grants to organizations that support human trafficking victims — serving nearly 9,000 cases from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018.
The Department of Homeland Security has hired more victim assistance specialists, helping victims get resources and support.
President Trump has called on Congress to pass school choice legislation so that no child is trapped in a failing school because of his or her zip code.
The President signed funding legislation in September 2018 that increased funding for school choice by $42 million.
The tax cuts signed into law by President Trump promote school choice by allowing families to use 529 college savings plans for elementary and secondary education.
Under his leadership ISIS has lost most of their territory and been largely dismantled.
ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was killed.
Signed the first Perkins CTE reauthorization since 2006, authorizing more than $1 billion for states each year to fund vocational and career education programs.
Executive order expanding apprenticeship opportunities for students and workers.
Trump issued an Executive Order prohibiting the U.S. government from discriminating against Christians or punishing expressions of faith.
Signed an executive order that allows the government to withhold money from college campuses deemed to be anti-Semitic and who fail to combat anti-Semitism.
President Trump ordered a halt to U.S. tax money going to international organizations that fund or perform abortions.
Trump imposed sanctions on the socialists in Venezuela who have killed their citizens.
Finalized new trade agreement with South Korea.
Made a deal with the European Union to increase U.S. energy exports to Europe.
Withdrew the U.S. from the job killing TPP deal.
Secured $250 billion in new trade and investment deals in China and $12 billion in Vietnam.
Okay'd up to $12 billion in aid for farmers affected by unfair trade retaliation.
Has had over a dozen US hostages freed, including those Obama could not get freed.
Trump signed the Music Modernization Act, the biggest change to copyright law in decades.
Trump secured billions that will fund the building of a wall at our southern border.
The Trump Administration is promoting second chance hiring to give former inmates the opportunity to live crime-free lives and find meaningful employment.
Trump's DOJ and the Board Of Prisons launched a new "Ready to Work Initiative" to help connect employers directly with former prisoners.
President Trump's historic tax cut legislation included new Opportunity Zone Incentives to promote investment in low-income communities across the country.
8,764 communities across the country have been designated as Opportunity Zones.
Opportunity Zones are expected to spur $100 billion in long-term private capital investment in economically distressed communities across the country.
Trump directed the Education Secretary to end Common Core.
Trump signed the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund into law.
Trump signed measure funding prevention programs for Veteran suicide.
Companies have brought back over a TRILLION dollars from overseas because of the TCJA bill that Trump signed.
[Prior to the coronavirus pandemic] manufacturing jobs were growing at the fastest rate in more than 30 years.
[Prior to the coronavirus pandemic] the stock market reached record highs.
[Prior to the coronavirus pandemic] Median household income hit highest level ever recorded.
[Prior to the coronavirus pandemic] African-American unemployment is at an all time low.
[Prior to the coronavirus pandemic] Hispanic-American unemployment is at an all time low.
[Prior to the coronavirus pandemic] Asian-American unemployment is at an all time low.
[Prior to the coronavirus pandemic] women's unemployment rate was at a 65-year low.
[Prior to the coronavirus pandemic] Youth unemployment is at a 50-year low.
[Prior to the coronavirus pandemic] We had the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded.
The Pledge to America's Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans.
[Prior to the coronavirus pandemic] 95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future — the highest ever.
[Prior to the coronavirus pandemic] As a result of the Republican tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.
Record number of regulations eliminated that hurt small businesses.
Signed welfare reform requiring able-bodied adults who don't have children to work or look for work if they're on welfare.
Under Trump, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history.
Reformed Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugs — saving seniors 100's of millions of $$$ this year alone.
Signed Right-To-Try legislation allowing terminally ill patients to try experimental treatment that wasn't allowed before.
Secured $6 billion in new funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.
U.S. oil production recently reached all-time high so we are less dependent on oil from the Middle East.
The U.S. is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957.
NATO allies increased their defense spending because of his pressure campaign.
Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord in 2017 and that same year the U.S. still led the world by having the largest reduction in Carbon emissions.
Has his circuit court judge nominees being confirmed faster than any other new administration.
Had his Supreme Court Justice's Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh confirmed.
Moved U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
Agreed to a new trade deal with Mexico & Canada that will increase jobs here and $$$ coming in.
Reached a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S. exports.
Imposed tariffs on China in response to China's forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices, has agreed to a Part One trade deal with China.
Signed legislation to improve the National Suicide Hotline.
Signed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever into law, which will advance childhood cancer research and improve treatments.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law by Trump doubled the maximum amount of the child tax credit available to parents and lifted the income limits so more people could claim it.
It also created a new tax credit for other dependents.
In 2018, President Trump signed into law a $2.4 billion funding increase for the Child Care and Development Fund, providing a total of $8.1 billion to States to fund child care for low-income families.
The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC) signed into law by Trump provides a tax credit equal to 20–35% of child care expenses, $3,000 per child & $6,000 per family + Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) allow you to set aside up to $5,000 in pre-tax $ to use for child care.
In 2019 President Donald Trump signed the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education and Support Act (CARES) into law which allocates $1.8 billion in funding over the next five years to help people with autism spectrum disorder and to help their families.
In 2019 President Trump signed into law two funding packages providing nearly $19 million in new funding for Lupus specific research and education programs, as well an additional $41.7 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the most Lupus funding EVER.
Another upcoming accomplishment to add: In the next week or two Trump will be signing the first major anti-robocall law in decades called the TRACED Act (Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence.) Once it's the law, the TRACED Act will extend the period of time the FCC has to catch & punish those who intentionally break telemarketing restrictions. The bill also requires voice service providers to develop a framework to verify calls are legitimate before they reach your phone.
[Prior to the coronavirus pandemic] US stock market continually hit all-time record highs.
Because so many people asked for a document with all of this listed in one place, here it is. No links provided to remove bias as Google search is easy.
Trump did all of this while fighting flagrant abuse and impeachment charges.

Now, let's bring this up to date
from April 2020 when the above list was published by Mr. Vanderhay.
*    Trump created a coalition between government and private drug companies to produce a vaccine for COVID-19 in 10 months under the program title Warp Speed, and developed a logistics program to deliver the vaccine to millions of citizens when vaccine development heretofore took 4 to 7 years.
Trump gave his son-in-law carte-blanch to deal with the Arab-Israeli conflict and as a result, four Arab countries have  entered treaties recognizing Israel's right to exist, thus reducing the chance of war in the Middle East.
Trump has called out mainstream media bias and tech's social media censorship of conservative news. He has exposed this threat to our democracy.
Trump opposed the 'Defund the Police' lunacy. Biden was quiet.
Republicans recognized Black Lives Matter as a Marxist organization bent on destruction of our culture while democrats contributed to it financially. They also saw the danger of Antifa and it's connection to BLM while the media ignored the story.
Trump accomplished all of this while under attack since the first day of his election by the democrats' media cohorts, undergoing the bogus Russia collusion narrative and investigations,  and fighting the federal bureaucracy and the intelligence community entrenched power players, (all were threatened to lose power and influence under a Trump presidency).
Importantly, not since Reagan have we seen a republican president that truly represented conservatives who were trying to save our culture and the formulae of our country's success. Trump had the nerve to challenge the establishment and its' poisonous, collectivist, dystopian vision that, at its core, is elitist and dangerously leading us, in ways large and small, over the cliff into a world not unlike what we see today in modern China.

I can't leave this without addressing the man's personality. Trump is boorish, blusterous, and boisterous. Like Obama, he is a   narcissist, but transparently so. Like Pelosi and Reed, he is vague or misleading and exaggerates facts, and is often unable to intelligently discuss his own positions in detail. And when you bark at him he'll bark back crudely, and maybe even try to bite. But I have had friends deeply flawed in this way and that hasn't prevented me from liking them. I also recognize their strengths. Perhaps you, as well as I ,have had surgeons, and other experts we've depended on who we dislike personally. So, please spare me any moralizing. I prefer to judge  the quality of a man by his accomplishments, not his skill in humoring the establishment's mores of the day.

Also, please don't consider this an apologetic.  We republicans have no obligation to convince democrats that we proceed logically to our choices. It is your obligation (and I'd say, your duty as a citizen), to turn to conservative news outlets, breath deeply. and listen; seek out the other sides' arguments. That's what Republicans do, not because we are better people or less threatened by new ideas, but because we cannot escape the liberal press. So I invite you to join those conservatives who still search for truth and vote according to what they discover. Granted, there is a cringe factor in tasting the disagreeable and that requires tolerance. But, after all, isn't tolerance a liberal value?
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walkstall

This should be put in the Library also.
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.- James Freeman Clarke

Always remember "Feelings Aren't Facts."

ModelCitizen

Good list. I'm not going to say anything bad about it.

I just hope that Joe Biden gets full credit for signing laws passed by Congress and the performance of the economy.

Heck, I hope we give the same courtesy to past presidents as well.

Owebo

Quote from: ModelCitizen on December 13, 2020, 08:32:12 PM
Good list. I'm not going to say anything bad about it.

I just hope that Joe Biden gets full credit for signing laws passed by Congress and the performance of the economy.

Heck, I hope we give the same courtesy to past presidents as well.

I'm sure China Joe will get full credit for destroying the economy..again....

RV

If I had to guess I'd say that President Trump won't get any credit or acknowledgement for all that he has done until many years into the future if then. That is if the Dems can't find a way to again lie to the people through their media lap dogs and take credit.
RV

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Solar

Quote from: RV on December 14, 2020, 07:12:38 AM
If I had to guess I'd say that President Trump won't get any credit or acknowledgement for all that he has done until many years into the future if then. That is if the Dems can't find a way to again lie to the people through their media lap dogs and take credit.
You're Right, 90% of news on Trump has been negative, so it will be up to historians to divulge what we've all known all along.
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RV

Quote from: Solar on December 14, 2020, 08:18:52 AM
You're Right, 90% of news on Trump has been negative, so it will be up to historians to divulge what we've all known all along.

There are pictures of the earth and pictures of other planets that ALL show the planets are round. The Bible states that the earth and planets are round. There is MOUNTAINS of evidence that the planets are round yet, there are still chuckleheads who parrot that the earth is flat. Obviously facts, evidence and history don't matter to some...
RV

"Trust in the Lord with all of your heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy path."

Trisha007

What a great list!  I'm printing it and sending it to everyone I know. Thank you Thank You Thank You
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Solar

Quote from: Trisha007 on January 11, 2021, 10:46:22 AM
What a great list!  I'm printing it and sending it to everyone I know. Thank you Thank You Thank You
Excellent! Check out the Library, it's full of soooo much people never knew.
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tiny1

Quote from: ModelCitizen on December 13, 2020, 08:32:12 PM
Good list. I'm not going to say anything bad about it.

I just hope that Joe Biden gets full credit for signing laws passed by Congress and the performance of the economy.

Heck, I hope we give the same courtesy to past presidents as well.
You, are really something else, I just haven't figured out what, yet. 
Joe Biden has been on the Gooberment teet for over 47 years.  In all that time, he's accomplished Nothing.  What makes you think he will have some sort of epiphany, now?
Look, Biden ain't gonna be there in 6 months.  Cameltoe the Ho will take over soon.
Either way, they'll trash the economy, open the Borders, Send jobs back overseas, Sell us out to the Chinese, Stop drilling and Fracking, enable our enemies against us, and turn our allies into enemies.  They'll crap on Israel, while appeasing Iran.  Christianity is also on the Chopping Block. 
Your support of these Traitors makes you complicit and as guilty as anyone else is.
What a Maroon.

Solar

Quote from: tiny1 on January 11, 2021, 11:59:28 AM
You, are really something else, I just haven't figured out what, yet. 
Joe Biden has been on the Gooberment teet for over 47 years.  In all that time, he's accomplished Nothing.  What makes you think he will have some sort of epiphany, now?
Look, Biden ain't gonna be there in 6 months.  Cameltoe the Ho will take over soon.
Either way, they'll trash the economy, open the Borders, Send jobs back overseas, Sell us out to the Chinese, Stop drilling and Fracking, enable our enemies against us, and turn our allies into enemies.  They'll crap on Israel, while appeasing Iran.  Christianity is also on the Chopping Block. 
Your support of these Traitors makes you complicit and as guilty as anyone else is.
What a Maroon.
It, along with all Marxists have been booted until after Trump is sworn in for another four. Then we'll let their dumb asses back in so we can make them eat their own shit!
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Trisha007

As far as Biden is concerned in this discussion, he is not a duly elected president.  The constitution was not followed in this election and thus, he is not the president elect.  How he has survived in 47 years in congress is beyond me.  Election fraud has been going on a long time.  They perfected it in 2020.
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tiny1

Quote from: Trisha007 on January 14, 2021, 01:20:02 PM
As far as Biden is concerned in this discussion, he is not a duly elected president.  The constitution was not followed in this election and thus, he is not the president elect.  How he has survived in 47 years in congress is beyond me.  Election fraud has been going on a long time.  They perfected it in 2020.
Uh, no they did not.  They got caught.  EVERYONE who is honest KNOWS they are common thieves.  Scum, and anyone who supports them, is a Scummy Enemy of America.  The Deep State thinks it is slick, but they are simply criminal.

Trisha007

I am sure you are probably right.  Biden's out there on another planet sometimes.  He may really believe he won legally.   :lol:
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RV

Quote from: Trisha007 on January 14, 2021, 03:31:49 PM
I am sure you are probably right.  Biden's out there on another planet sometimes.  He may really believe he won legally.   :lol:

Bejing Biden stated at various times in the "campaign" that he was running for Senate and that he was running for Komrad so I doubt very seriously if Bejing even knows the outcome of the election much less how we won nor what office he was even running for. I agree with you, Bejing is out there on another planet sometimes.
RV

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