Just what has Donald Trump accomplished?

According to his supporters and him, he has accomplished more than any other recent President. So what is it?

As an occasional critic of Donald Trump’s in my Medium posts, I have become the focus of attacks by MAGA supporters. In general, the attacks don’t bother me. Sometimes I respond, but I find that when I’m able to answer the question raised by a MAGAer, they simply change the question. Pinning them down on one issue is like trying to nail Jello to the wall.

One defense of Trump that gets frequently raised is that he has accomplished more than any President in history. I must admit that I’m skeptical. One thing he has accomplished is to attack verbally and via Twitter the mainstream media, disabled people, women, Gold Star families, and, of direct relevance to me, PhDs. In fact, one recent response to a post of mine expressed relief that Trump had control of the country rather than those PhDs.

To be certain, you are unlikely to find any PhDs in the Trump administration. True scholars would chafe at the expectation that they behave as the sycophants Trump expects among his staff. Despite this, I must insist that PhDs are not inherently the enemy of MAGA. We are trained to be skeptical of claims until they can be proven to us with evidence.