I will concede that many of his appointments were busts, but as some of the commenters at AT pointed out : Most of the things on that list were things he did not have the authority to do or was blocked by Mitch/Ryan/Pelosi/Schumer.
The Democrats and their media allies used the entrenched government bureaucracy and a weaponized DOJ to undercut him at every turn. I actually remember the frustration of the fight against almost all of DC and the fact that he got anything done in the face of the opposition is amazing.
The author is guilty of the very same flaw he assigns to Trump supporters; namely: He expects that Trump should have had the success rate of a God. When one is constantly fending off sociopaths and Mandarins (eg, Pelosi & McConnell), expecting God-like outcomes from a mere mortal is asking too much. And did he mention that over 90% of the mainstream press continued to publish negative and fake news against him?
And here’s my other question — let’s say you vote for someone other than Trump, what guarantee do you have that this Republican President won’t encounter the same obstacles that Trump faced?
So, ‘American Thinker’ thinks he should go along to get along with the deep state.
Got it.
40 years of that has worked so well
No matter how “successful” trump was he learend something important: The amount of corruption in the swamp is nearly limitless.
Sinceyou'vemade the Trump appointments a major disputing point, I'll address them all here.As you may recall, when Obama ran he was faced with the same issue: being an "outsider" (an Illinois creature who won his elections by default, and with only two years in the Senate), he had no "Rolodex," meaning he didn't know anyone to fill out a staff. Bill Clinton had an entire Arkansas machine that he built up and brought with him to DC (including Vince Foster, who became disillusioned and was terminated).
George W Bush, being a Texas politician, inherited his father's political machine, but he still needed the "gravitas" of Dick Cheney to round out his ticket in DC.
Back to Obama, his solution to the "gravitas" problem was, after a long VP search, to select Joe Biden as his running mate. Biden was said to be bringing the DC political connections after 40 years in Congress that Obama lacked. They wanted Biden's Rolodex, and the price for it was Biden himself.
Fast-forward to Donald Trump and we have the same problem. Trump was a Big Donor for sure, but he was on the other side of the check, the writing side and not the cashing side. Trump relied heavily on the recommendations of Reince Priebus for his early appointments, perhaps too much so, but he (in my opinion), didn't know better. He did have a track record of loyalty to his executive staff, but that worked in a corporate setting where the c-level were compensated based on the success of the company. In DC, people are compensated based on the side deals they make from the power of the positions they hold, with lesser regard to the person who got them the position they now hold. In DC, getting the position is key; it's politically much harder to fire some than to appoint someone, because firing someone becomes an attack on the Senators who endorsed the nominee.
This brings us to the particular position of Chris Wray. Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, and others made it clear to President Trump' whom they would support for certain positions, and who was off-limits for being fired. If there were any root-cause for this Sword of Damocles being held over Trump's head, it was his nomination of Jeff Sessions for Attorney General.
Trump was being loyal to Sessions for him being the first DC heavyweight to get on the Trump Train, and made Sessions the Attorney General. Some of us thought that Sessions, while a genial person with Biden-like connections in the Senate, was not a strong personality to hold such an important role in the administration. He may have been an effective Alabama "country lawyer" in his youth, but his casualness didn't serve him well in the federal positions he held until he became a Senator. Sessions would eventually undermine President Trump by so easily being duped by Democrat pressure to recuse himself at the beginning of the Russia hoax, instead of holding strong until he could see beyond the initial headwinds to assess what was really going on.
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If we're going to compare appointments, Biden has:
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I second your motion. The man was not an insider and i imagine the learning curve for being President is steep when you dont know exactly who youre dealing with. Regardless of that he made many promises and kept many that absolutely mattered at the time. I swear Covid has wiped the memory out of many folks on this site. The man had incredible record going into Covid… and thats where his biggest mistakes were made… same mistakes any person on Earth wouldve made in that position. What makes his success even more remarkable is the constant antagonism from the lifelong DC scum who havent done shit in decades and are simply jealous that someone like Trump did what he set out to do…..
The author needs to pull his head out of his arse.
All in for Trump. DeSantis maybe if Trump doesn’t get the nomination, which doesn’t seem likely at this time.
As long as people I hate insist on attacking Trump he will have my support since I know he must be doing something right.
A lot of things in this article may be true, but President Trump is still the best choice for president in 2024.
As of now, he’s about the only choice.
This moronic screed reminds me of how American Stinker would have published a screed, in 1942, asking:
"When Will Stubborn U.S. Marines Face Inconvenient Truths?"
This author gets on a plane from LA to New York and after an hour says, “ why aren’t we there yet? This pilot is incompetent. A bus is better.”
He’s that stupid or he’s always worked for the bus line.
“Why couldn’t Trump get illegal immigration fixed — beyond executive orders easily overturned”
He got no support and was opposed by the uniparty. Has this idiot criticized Biden for his easily overturned executive orders that have destroyed our energy production?
“and get Obamacare reversed when he had a Republican Senate and House?
Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell. I repeat, Paul Ryan and Mitch the Bitch McConnell.
“Why did Trump let Paul Ryan ruin his platform?”
He didn’t. Republican in Congress destroyed his platform as much as they could.
“Why did Trump deliberately antagonize John McCain knowing McCain would undercut the final vote on debriding Obamacare?”
McCain the traitor was trying desperately to undercut Trump from day one.
This guy is unhinged. Trump was not a dictator.
The democrats tried to impeach him for a phone call.
Funny the AT has been spot on usually. Trump definitely made mistakes especially on hiring, but that doesn’t change that he delivered bigly.
The issues I have is that this article is inconveniently false. The John McCain anecdote is really bizarre. McCain’s little tantrum had no effect in the end, since President Trump effectively ended Obamacare when he repealed the mandate.
I pointed out it's actually "his fanatical 74M base of worshippers"; and slug Friday dumps like this prick or the Ronlims don't even begin to chip away at that base.
Maybe some thought that voting for Trump was the same as voting for Jesus Christ. I know I didn’t. He has many faults, as we all do. However, despite his faults, and with all the media, and most of the congress against him, he outperformed any recent President to hold office.
Trumpster was in discovery mode in first term. You need to know who the enemy is before you can knee cap them. His loss during 2020 may have been the plot to expose besides the election fraud. One thing Trumpster did is give people hope which counts more than anything else. Without the belief you are never going to have faith.
“Why did Trump willfully persist with a toxic persona, alienating suburban voters “
there it is- It was those mean tweets-
What a douche
I will again campaign for and vote for Trump or no one in the next election.... IF WE ACTUALLY HAVE ONE.
In 2024 America will be worse off than it is now. The way I see it is many will be forced to hold their nose and vote for Trump or get Biden or Kamala for four more years. The banks are melting. They will have to inject trillions of dollars into the banking system which will cause inflation to spike again. WWIII is brewing. Crime is out of control in many areas. If they cheat again that might just lead to a backlash/whitelash. I think the political establishment has checkmated itself.
Wasn’t “An Inconvenient Truth” the title of Al Gore’s sanctimonious book of climate change lies?