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Trump’s failures
His supporters say he has accomplished more than any other president. Just what has he accomplished?
Whenever I write anything the least bit critical of our President, I inevitably receive bitter responses from his supporters taking one of two approaches.
The first is to attack me personally. After all, I am just a liberal college professor (I teach business management, by the way) from California (I’m from Michigan) who is obsessed with Trump. Regarding the third accusation, if being upset about what Trump has done to our country counts as an obsession, maybe I’m guilty of that one.
The second approach is to argue that “Trump has done more for this country than any other president.” That refrain is a common one among his supporters, and it begs the question, just what has Trump supported?
In the interest of fairness, then, let’s look at Trump’s accomplishments and give him a grade for his effectiveness.
- Trade deficit at its worst since George W. Bush was President. Trump loves to blame Obama for his problems, and he loves to claim that he is a much better President than his predecessor. Perhaps Trump’s signature issue, other than his racism, is trade. Here, Trump has been an unqualified failure. According to the Federal Reserve, the U.S. trade…
