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Miles Archer

(18,921 posts)
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 10:31 AM Monday

"But...his POLICIES."

It's worth remembering that Trump had TWO "accomplishments" in FOUR YEARS.

1). Paul Ryan's Tax Cuts For Millionaires.

100% Paul Ryan, the self-professed Ayn Rand wet dream of his entire life, claims he used to "dream about it" at "keggers" in college. Trump signed the tax cuts. That was his sole involvement, a signature.

2). Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett, and scores of Federal judges with lifetime appointments like Aileen Cannon.

All of the 3 Stooges Trump "appointed" to the SCOTUS...plus Cannon and scores of "Trump judges" across the USA...came via a demands list from Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society. He sent McConnell a list and said "MAKE IT HAPPEN." McConnell said "Yes SIR!" and let over 400 pieces of House-approved legislation sit on his desk, with no hope of ever making it to the Senate floor for a vote. McConnell rammed them through, Trump signed them. That was his sole involvement, a signature. He didn't "choose" ANYONE.

Trump DID NOT "build a big, beautiful wall, more beautiful than anyone has ever seen, many people are saying, and Mexico did not pay every penny. Trump refurbished about 400 miles of existing structure.

Trump DID NOT "repeal and replace ObamaCare with a big, beautiful healthcare plan, bigger and more beautiful than anyone has every seen, many people are saying." He did have his goons parade a huge binder filled with empty pages to Leslie Stahl and called that his "plan."

So. What else did Trump actually DO?

1). Played a lot of golf at taxpayers expense after saying he'd be too busy making America great again to even think about golf.

Newsweek, May 22, 2019: Trump's Golfing has Cost Taxpayers $102 Million, Just $12.7 Million Behind Obama's Travel During Entire Presidency: Report

2). Obsessively watched TV, especially Fox, to see when he was mentioned. He coined the phrase "EXECUTIVE TIME" because he did not leave his residency during the week until "Fox & Friends" had finished airing

3). He bullied and insulted people, and wrote book & TV "reviews," on Twitter

4). He held MAGAt rallies

5). "Undid" every piece of corporate / environmental Obama-era legislation he could get his tiny hands on

If anyone can think of additional "accomplishments," feel free to add them.

We'll get all of this and more, plus non-stop revenge seeking and multiple soft wet kisses on the buttocks of Putin, Kim Jong Un, Prince Mohammed bin Bonesaw, Viktor Orban, and other fascist strongmen who inhabit Trump's fever dreams daily.

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Chin music

(24,000 posts)
1. I remember the Newsweek golf story well....By the time it was
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 10:36 AM
Monday

written? The reports were he had spent well over 400 million. That story stuck in my craw bc it seemed like a 75% reduction, and gave trmp a reset on his golf budget.

Miles Archer

(18,921 posts)
3. Absolutely...that's why I included the date, but that number was LOW.
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 10:44 AM
Monday

I have seen "$142 million" tossed around often, and there was that one trip to the golf course in Scotland that came in at $1 million all by itself.

Then there's USA Today:

Fact check: Estimated taxpayer burden for Trump's golf outings is hard to pin down

Oct 31, 2020

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/31/fact-check-taxpayer-burden-trumps-golfing-hard-pin-down/3718413001/

One of President Donald Trump's favorite recreational activities is golf.

Robert Reich, author and former Labor secretary, claims in an Oct. 19 post to his Facebook page that the hobby is subsidized by U.S. taxpayers.

"Once again, Trump brags about donating his $400,000 presidential salary. Somehow he forgot to mention that his golf trips have cost taxpayers $141,000,000," says a screenshot of a tweet Reich posted that same day.

Chin music

(24,000 posts)
4. That story about that time reset the golf amount
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 10:53 AM
Monday

that he'd spent. I remember being shocked they cut it down so much.

JustAnotherGen

(33,208 posts)
2. Don't forget to remember
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 10:43 AM
Monday

The tax cut placed a cap on SALT that was punishment for the middle class in high cost of living blue states.

Wounded Bear

(60,294 posts)
5. trump has policies? I have been trying to figure out what they were since 2015...
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 10:58 AM
Monday

Haven't seen a coherent version of his policies ever.

Miles Archer

(18,921 posts)
7. It's been the knee-jerk response for Trump apologists all year.
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 01:09 PM
Monday

Sure, there are the rabid MAGAts who love him inside and out.

But I've seen far too many interviews...that ambush "man on the street" thing...where people are asked why they are voting for him and they might say something like "I don't care for him personally but I like his policies."

And, more often than not, they are not pressed to define exactly what those "policies" are.

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