The conservative republicans voted for Trump depite his personal flaws [ significant personal flaws are found in many billionaires ] they voted mainly for his policies, some were informal like 'drain the swamp'...the public need the political parts of press and tv to hold him to account on whether he has carried out his policies. But the media can't get past their own bias to carry out that core professional duty, jim acosta was a classic example, he let his own political viewpoints/agenda affect how he did his job. He was trying to argue and tell Trump what policies should be followed, that's not his job.
If you take the judge cavanaugh, michael cohen, and russiagate situations, none of it is about his policies, it's just soap opera but the media will spend hours and days focusing on it when they're are more important issues, like fracking which you mentioned before, the tax cuts for the rich etc.. are these things in line with his campaign promises? We need a dry sober analysis of politicians and their actions but instead all we get is histrionics and that is the liberal media's fault
You are kidding are you? I don't know how much you follow news programs but to me it seems you do not watch much.
Together with all the show stuff, which is instigated on purpose by the "liar-in-chief", the policies get talked through to the smallest detail, e.g. the tax cut, health care etc were front and centre for weeks.
Mr. T never had any intentions whatsover to keep his promises. e.g. the wall serves only as a argument for his re-election, not because he wants to make the US safer. They are safe as it is and the level of immigrants is still much, much lower than at the turn of the century. I would venture to say that his actions actually are one of the major reasons why you have such a large increase. Could explain you why but it would need another page for that.
- tax cuts for the middle class - at the 2017/2018 New Year's Eve speech he said to his friends: "You all just got a whole lot richer" ...which included him of course as not just himself but also his kids will save billions in taxes. The first tax filing period after the tax cuts has come and is pretty much gone, but I do not see the "middle class" or "low income" people partying in the street shouting how much more they have in their pockets.
- health care - he showed no interest whatsoever to get something done that was even slightly better than the ACA. He had no plan, even after getting elected.
- middle-east peace - no plan whatsoever. After 2 years sunny boy still says it will be presented "soon", whatever that means.
- North Korea - no plan whatsoever. According to reports, they went virtually with no proper preparations to Hanoi
- UK trade deal - he will screw you big time, just wait until you can buy GM foods and chlorine chicken in the UK. You will love it.
- Trade Deals - where are they? NAFTA2 is about 1% better than what the Obama administration had already negotiated before Mr. T came to office; South-Korea - useless deal, US automakers can now export more cars with lower safety standards but no one got even close to the numbers that were already allowed; China - no major concessions in over 2 years. Mr. T bragging about extra taxes coming into the US coffers because of the tariffs which actually are paid by the US consumer; Europe - no deal, average tariff on all goods & services is about 1.8% in each direction, he wants 25% on cars where e.g. German automakers are actually one of the largest exporters of cars from the US. Talk of cutting the branch you are sitting on!
- Trade deficit with China - at a record high even with his beloved tariffs.
- Budget deficit is spiralling and that with a, according to the "liar-in-chief" booming, in real terms though modestly growing economy.
- GDP growth - he promised 3%, 4%, even 5% GDP growth, last year it grew by 2.9% and that included a $1.5 trillion tax cut boost and massive increases in government spending. The next years there won't be any money in the coffers to give it another boost and it will be even worse when the next recession is coming as they will have less to counteract.
Does this look like a booming economy or just a modest growth?
- job creation - on average less than Obama or maybe the same, but certainly no boom in jobs. Question is also how many of those "new" jobs actually pay a wage that allows people a decent life or do they need 2 or 3 of those jobs to feed a family?
Simply no coherent plans whatsoever. Instead he is creating a new type of swamp, and it is a worse one that already existed.
IMO, much of his policies are based on his fantasies of using power and the wrecking ball to achieve things, which might shock people at the beginning but in the end will not lead to major changes/accomplishments. Mr. T thinks because that worked in real estate, it must work as well in politics. To the contrary, he is creating a hostile environment where even the closest partners/friends will start working against him. However, he is making new friends with dictators or dictator-wannabees (SA, Egypt, Turkey) and countries that have moved to the extreme right (Poland, Hungary etc). How nice is that!
If you find liberal media so awful, what to you think of the conservative media? ...... e.g. here a video about Faux and Obama
after all the carnage he caused, we've got a parliament chock full of people who admire and love Tony Blair, he still gets to go on major tv channels and make pronouncements about issues like brexit, syria etc...
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