1852 sats \ 0 replies \ @sb 10 Aug 2022 \ on: Ask SN: What are Trump's positive achievements while in office? bitcoin
W's for the Trump Administration:
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Middle East relations improvements (look up the Abraham Accords). This was the first time an Arab country normalized relations with Israel since the early 1990's.
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He was proven absolutely correct about the debilitating situation that Germany was putting itself in by attempting to "go green". Listening to a 16 year old Swedish teenager about energy policy ended up being a fatal error for Western Europe, and we are now seeing the consequences as they are beholden to Russian natural gas. The German Foreign Minister actually laughed at Trump at the time (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/09/25/trump-accused-germany-becoming-totally-dependent-russian-energy-un-germans-just-smirked/)
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The border wall - despite the mocking over the years - appears to have been reasonably successful! So much so that the Biden administration has continued it's construction (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/biden-administration-fill-border-wall-gaps-yuma-arizona-rcna40567?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma)
General comment:
Trump is a clever populist and a strong leader, but made terrible cabinet choices back in 2016 (as evidenced by his own FBI pick running a raid operation at his house). He unfortunately let the Fauci-led COVID policy turn authoritarian, and didn't hesitate to ask for the money printer to be turned on (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/11/trump-once-considered-just-printing-money-to-lower-the-national-debt-woodward-reports.html).
He was not effective at "draining the swamp" and stopping foreign intervention. "Operation Warp Speed" was a sketchy situation - rushing through clinical trials was dangerous.