Time to admit that Trump is doing a good job
It's been drilled into everyone that "past performance is no guarantee of future results." That piece of wisdom is a double-edged sword. Most Trump critics, be they Democrats or NeverTumps, miss the second edge. However bad Trump's pre-election behavior is perceived to be, it has almost no value in evaluating the obvious success of his presidency.
Just as there are naïve investors who are incredulous when a surefire opportunity becomes a money-loser, there are pundits who, in their own minds, know that a person or a policy will lead to disaster. They are unable to grasp when reality makes their predictions worthless.
It is not a surprise that Trump was sexually active prior to his election. For some people – surprisingly, mostly on the left – that is a sign of our downfall as a civilization. They ask how they can explain it to their children. In the post-New Deal era, the following presidents have been sexually promiscuous while actually in high office: FDR, Kennedy, Johnson, and Clinton. There is no sense in which the Trump presidency is any less a model of propriety than that of either Bush or of Obama.
For people living in the past, Trump is a bigot for preventing all Muslims from entering the country. His actual policy is a ban on Muslims coming from five countries that contain 8% of the world Muslim population. When the decision is viewed in those terms, it is perfectly reasonable. What he said before the election is irrelevant.
During the campaign, Trump scared me and many other free-traders. He kept saying he was a free-trader but wanted to impose some tariffs to compensate for unfair trade practices and to motivate trading partners to respect American intellectual property. He argued that tariffs would not be permanently in place to stifle free trade. They would be negotiating tools to facilitate trade. Turns out he was right. In fairness to the laissez-faire crowd, free trade probably would eventually solve these problems. It is also true that eventually is a very long time.
Trump's negotiating style is the key to understanding his success. During the campaign, Trump-supporters continued to emphasize his business acumen. Many people found the claim absurd. I was certainly among them, but the group included highly successful investors like Mitt Romney. Trump's investment decisions were certainly erratic. My point was and is that no one should take investment advice from this guy.
Trump-supporters had the stronger case. Their man's specific business skill is as a marvelous negotiator. There is no doubt that he is ruthless and relentless in his willingness to leverage American power. America has desired outcomes all over the world. Trump has proven to be the best available agent to achieve those outcomes. Here are a few examples:
1. The already mentioned trade concessions from people previously all too happy to take advantage of previous administration weakness.
2. Getting our allies to carry a heavier load. Most NATO nations are now meeting their obligations for defense spending. Middle Eastern countries are moving more aggressively to counter terrorism and to stand against Iran.
3. Russia is no longer buzzing our planes and ships and otherwise testing our troops or our border.
4. North Korea has agreed to stop testing nuclear weapons and missiles. It has agreed to talks and to accept a peaceful end of the Korean War, rather than just the prevailing ceasefire. It is true that the North Korean nuclear test site may no longer be usable. For those who think that if Obama were still president, Kim Jong-un would not merely test above ground or even use aerial testing, I repeat my longstanding offer to sell some of my Florida orange groves. They are wonderfully green.
No one needs advice to understand the value of these achievements. It took Trump to make them a reality.
Trump moves in mysterious ways. Some of his moves are likely to fail, but some of even the oddest of them work. When he was still head of the CIA, Mike Pompeo made it clear that Trump's tweets affect our adversaries. Measurable favorable behavioral changes were observed by our intelligence community. Sometimes there is a method to apparent madness.
What can be criticized about this president's actual performance? There are criticisms of the tax cut. They are lame. With no modesty at all, I recommend this as an antidote. There are hopes and prayers among a dwindling number of partisans that the Mueller investigations will turn up wrongdoing of some sort. Let's just wait and see.
While we wait, it will add to the health of our republic if we judge our president by what he does as president rather than by what people predicted he would do or predict that he will do. There are people who call this approach being reality-based. https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/04/time_to_admit_that_trump_is_doing_a_good_job.html
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I watched most of the corespondents dinner and i'll admit, while it was pretty off color at the end, it was funny. And watching a comedian rip trump to shreds? Priceless. Stand by for a week of angry tweets, the result of poor little trumpy's bruised ego.
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Trump moves in mysterious ways. Some of his moves are likely to fail, but some of even the oddest of them work. When he was still head of the CIA, Mike Pompeo made it clear that Trump's tweets affect our adversaries. Measurable favorable behavioral changes were observed by our intelligence community. Sometimes there is a method to apparent madness.
While we wait, it will add to the health of our republic if we judge our president by what he does as president rather than by what people predicted he would do or predict that he will do. There are people who call this approach being reality-based.
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I would add: The true outcome of trumps mysterious ways, methods, deeds and madness has yet to be seen. Many to most of the changes trump is and has been making will take time to produce the end results both positive and negative.
Yes we are seeing many seemingly positive signs. But at what long term cost ? Even the world's leaders we deemed crazy want no part of this madness and are stepping aside to avoid this man's madness. Who BTW is our president and leader.
Good luck America in controlling this "madness"
So does a fart.
yes because a nuclear n korea and iran and giving them loads of cash to do it, is called sanity for obama bots and liberals--WTH--obama cost the world alot in terms of proliferating wars and kissing the asses of communists and muslim bullies..we didn't need enemies with people like obama in charge, he was our very own trojan horse.
When I see Trump with all these foreign leaders I see total respect, not the laughing stock of the world as the Left try to contrive it to the public daily. The laughing stock President has left the house.
"Time to admit Trump is doing a good job"
Yes, it's about time we talk about who the Trump administration is helping. I think he deserves at least one round of golf claps. He doubled his membership fees at his golf courses. He's been seeing never before no vacancy bookings at his hotel in Washington and Trump tower. His employees, children and benefactors are seeing an opulence they haven't seen since Trump started laundering money for the Russians. Sure, the rest of America was doing fine without him, but now even the super rich that voted against him are getting a huge permanent tax cut at middle income Americans expense and they really couldn't be happier. And the roofied middle and low income poorly educated that supported him haven't seen any wage increase or sizable tax cuts yet, the temporary $36 a month he used like a carrot on a stick won't really allow them to sink their teeth in till next year. But golf claps all around for the wealthy he's made even richer.
you can golf at another coarse and no one is forcing you to stay in a high rent trump hotel go to the red roof instead..---jealous much--don't know about you but my income has certainly gone up at a much faster rate than it did in the 8 LONG yrs of obama...under that idiot wages actually went down..so i'm happy trump has improved my bank acct. yes trump is doing a good job and i'll vote for him again in 2020..
Not at all, I was merely pointing out that Trump has used the office of the President to enrich himself and his sycophantic buddies. I am already earning six figures and this tax cut will put more money in my pocket than most, but it is still a shit trade off that will disappear in 7 years while the tax cuts for corporations are permanent and will add trillions to our debt. The supposedly fiscally responsible Republicans scream and whine about the debt when they're not in power, but as soon as they take the white house they no longer care about the debt and deficit spending. Those who believe the tax cut will pay for itself with growth are simply lying to themselves, no reasonable economist believes that nonsense.
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For people ignoring his past but gleefully highlighting the oppositions....Trump prohibited Blacks from living in his apartments, prohibited minorities from being in his presence while on his properties.
Oh, now you want to discuss realities? How's this? He promotes and succeeds at ramming the tax changes which by all scores from every angle has created a debt larger than even imagined. He stated in his speech that the upset caused in the market is temporary and that some will pay a price until this settles out. He has been and continues to ignore the coming apocalypse implosion of the retail sector that is going to put millions on the street with no job and dwindling support. Macy's, Penney's, Kmart, Sears, Toy R Us, Gap, and many others are closing stores everywhere......what's his plan?
For the second time in 15 years I have pulled totally out of the market during a Republican administration, I was absolutely correct on the last one and I believe I am on this one too.
Business acumen? Really? He lied to get on Forbes's list of 400, has a history of not paying or slow paying his bills, has been successfully sued for fraud, and most of his properties are swimming deep in debt.
If his business acumen is so good, why won't banks lend him money?
Sexually active? Isn't that a nice whitewash. Cheating on his wives, accused of rape, secret payoffs...so bad that he had to plead the 5th during his divorce proceedings, and he 's done it again with Stormy Daniels while his wife was recovering from childbirth. But of course it was a downfall for Clinton, just sexually active for Trump.
Folks here on the right glaringly show their hypocrisy when they have made all their comments about Clinton and Obama yet ignore that facts regarding Trump.
Now he's calling for Senator to resign for his statements on the failed VA appointee because he thinks they are lies.....using his rules he should have resigned from the Office of the President 3 hours in to his term. Or did some sort of proof come out that Obama personally had his phones bugged?
The economy is going to crash in the next year or so....It's a republican run government all the way around. How will you blame this on the Democrats?
Great! Because I live here and in the position to buy property, where are they and since I am in a cash position I'll have my RE agent check them out.......that is if they actually exist which I doubt highly.
I am reminded of my old clock, that, despite not working, was still correct twice each day. For one hundred and twenty seconds out of 24 hours (there are 86,400 seconds per day, for perspective, which works out to the 120 seconds being 0.0013888888888889% of the total time available). 0.0013888888888889 is just too small a percentage of accuracy to justify allowing the clock to remain in place, and so the clock had to go.
you gotta love libs--not only do they hope for nuclear war, & our presidents death, they are also praying that our economy collapses just so they can blame trump FOR SOMETHING other than world peace and economic prosperity...LOL...they must be fools of the highest order to think that we would want to or agree to go back to an obama type of gov where poverty reins and only the elite libs have the right to tell us who gets how much money and how the rest of us should spend it..--i can't quit laughing at these idiots------this article still holds true and could equally be titled why i hate liberals--
BWWWHAAAAA - so speaks the person whose "side" published pictures (cartoons) of Obama lynched. Damn - how easily they forget.
Neener-neener is so immature. Is ONE person responsible for EVERYTHING that his/her alleged party posts? Have you forgotten about all of the memes, cartoons and photoshopped pics of Reagan, Bush 43, and Trump?
No, But I remember kaitlin from NV - so I know exactly what was said & what was supported. First hand knowledge.
How did you manage to post comment 9.1.2 before I posted comment 9.1.1? I was in the middle of posting (not editing) when I saw your 9.1.2. Interesting!
I am a witch.
No, but I did not SUPPORT them either, as kaitlin did the Obama ones.
I do not know who " kaitlin " is/was on either NV or NT ... but in comment 9.1 you addressed someone named katlin02 . The two names aren't even close to being the same.
What are your thoughts about the seeded topic?
Sure, if that is your take - we all believe kaitlin & kaitlin02 are no where near the same...
My take on the topic???? My response was to kaitlin who was whining about Trump's detractors wishing him ill as if...
Whatever - keep at it Jaspers.... don't care about what you think...
and BTW - what did kaitlin02's link have anything to do with the topic & why he/she does not like the Obama's since the topic is Trump & not the Obamas, but I do not expect you to ask him/her that since they agree with you. TYPICAL
gee at least you could spell the name right--let me do it REAL SLOW JUST FOR YOU ---KATLIN 02---
no one had to publish any lynching photos of barry.....his claim to fame is kissing the ayatollah's ass and screwing america--
i love when libs act like trump took their lollipop and threw it in the dirt---
I knew it. Nice to know I was right. Fare thee well.
Spelling lessons from someone that still cannot figure out the difference between "coarse" and "course"
Like 'their' and 'there', I do it all the time. Most of the time I correct it by editing, but sometimes my fingers have a mind of there own. Oooops!
Another yawner. What ever. Anyway, Trump gave himself an A+. So there it is. There you have it.
Still waiting for Trump to release the Hawaii reports his investigators were working on. He said, "They were finding out incredible things."