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Jan 18, 2021 · Trump’s presidency may be best remembered for its cataclysmic end. But his four years as president also changed real American policy in lasting ways, just more quietly.
May 18, 2021 · Should Trump decide to run again, Republican voters have to decide whether the good things the former president accomplished outweigh the big mistakes that he made during his tenure.
Dec 18, 2020 · 13 Things Trump Got Right. Nobody does nothing as president, not even someone who watches television for five or six hours a day. By David Frum.
- American Income. Median household income rose to $61,372 in 2017, a post-recession high. Wages up in August by their fastest rate since June 2009. Paychecks rose by 3.3 percent between 2016 and 2017, the most in a decade.
- American Optimism. Small business optimism has hit historic highs. NFIB’s small business optimism index broke a 35 year-old record in August. SurveyMonkey/CNBC’s small business confidence survey for Q3 of 2018 matched its all-time high.
- American Business. Investment is flooding back into the United States due to the tax cuts. Over $450 billion dollars has already poured back into the U.S., including more than $300 billion in the first quarter of 2018.
- Deregulation. Achieved massive deregulation at a rapid pace, completing 22 deregulatory actions to every one regulatory action during his first year in office.
- "Will arrest all homeless people across the country for ‘urban camping,’ round them up and then ‘relocate them’ to ‘tent cities’ where they can be ‘rehabilitated.’"
- "Require every federal employee to take a new patriotism exam and they will be terminated if they refuse to take them or fail to pass." This is essentially what Trump said.
- "Will build 10 new Trump ‘freedom cities’ around the country, which will be free of any government regulations." MeidasTouch’s description is more expansive than Trump’s proposal.
- "He will appoint federal judges in the mold of Clarence Thomas." This closely matches what Trump said in a video, although he said "adopt" rather than "appoint": "My administration will again adopt rock-solid constitutional conservatives to the federal bench, justices and judges, but in the mold of Antonin Scalia and Justice Clarence Thomas."
Jan 12, 2018 · He was elected on a platform of change, but what impact has Donald Trump made in his first year as president?
Jan 29, 2021 · In his final days in office, Trump became the first president ever to be impeached twice – the second time for inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol during the certification of the election he lost – and the nation’s first chief executive in more than 150 years to refuse to attend his successor’s inauguration.
