Hmmm. This is referring to the massive tax cut that, along with the massive budget, is going to add to our deficit–massively?
Need I say more?
Trump accomplishments
Evaluating Donald Trump’s Accomplishments–Number Two on the List
Number Two on the Laundry List of Donald Trump’s Accomplishments
Here’s the next on the list I was sent:
2. Empowered military.
As I said yesterday, this is a very generalized, generic list, but since these ideas are used as talking points to support the President I’m addressing them as well as I can.
I think what this second point must be referring to is the idea that, as the Washington Examiner (a pro-Trump news outlet) says, “Empowered military leaders to ‘seize the initiative and win,’ reducing the need for a White House sign off on every mission.” That announcement has indeed been made by the White House. I’m not at all sure that the WH has ever had to “sign off on every mission,” but we’ll accept it as read.
Evaluating Donald Trump’s Accomplishments–Number One on the List
Way, way back in those halcyon days (cliché alert!) of 2016 before the election, when everyone (including Donald Trump himself) thought that he couldn’t possibly win, there was a list circulating of all the wonderful things he’d do if the impossible happened and he indeed managed to get elected. I’m not going to dive back into the past to get the entire list, but I do remember that one of them was “Donald Trump will appoint the best people to the thousands of positions he’ll need to fill.” Well, ha to that one. I don’t think I need to say any more.
Recently, though, I was sent another list, this one of what our current President has accomplished in his first less-than-two years in office, so I decided to write a series of short posts taking on each point. Here’s the list, first of all: