How's Trump for You?

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I’m not sure where you are reading this information. Our financial planner, who is a banker, told us that Trump is the best thing that has happened for the country, financially, in a long time. Stock markets have had record highs. You are correct, that we are about to have a financial collapse, but this is from decades of irresponsible governmental spending, not a couple of months of Trump. He is actually trying to fix the problems, by rolling back regulations that tied the hands of businesses and made it almost impossible for small businesses to start up.

The coal industry (what is left of it) has been saved by Trump. I live in coal country. The mines that are still open after 8 years of Obama trying to shut them all down, by severely regulating the power plants, are thriving. They are hiring. I see train cars full of coal moving down the tracks, and I haven’t seen that for years. I saw a barge on the river, two days ago, full of coal, much more coal than I have seen them pushing for a long time. Thousands of jobs saved in this area, just with coal. By trying to change the trade deals, he will be responsible for making it easier for manufacturers to stay in the US or come back to the US and hire Americans. Many, many other jobs have been created, as well, not sure where you get your info.

President Trump directed the Department of Commerce to streamline Federal permitting processes for domestic manufacturing and to reduce regulatory burdens on domestic manufacturers. This is going to save and create many, many jobs.

He put a freeze on hiring more Federal employees, saving us money.

Trump signed EO establishing new ethics commitments for all Executive branch appointees, putting in place a five-year lobbying ban and a permanent ban on lobbying for foreign governments, so that appointees serve the American people instead of their own interests. Who can argue with that?

He ended the ridiculous burden by those unable to purchase Obamacare.

He is upping the military budget, and he is not afraid to say that ISIS needs to be removed from the earth. He has no problem calling out the evil of radicalized Islam.

Trump signed an EO for Veterans to get the care they need much faster, which is much needed! Our past treatment of our veterans has been despicable, at best. The first Navy Seal who died in a raid, he went to the man’s funeral. He does care about these people.

He is trying to tamp down the free-for-all illegal immigration problem. He is trying to do something about halting the drugs (heroin) coming over the border, yet not closing the borders.

He is working with Canada for the advancement of women entrepreneurs and business leaders. He signed into law the Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act to encourage the National Science Foundation’s entrepreneurial programs to recruit and support women to extend their focus beyond the laboratory and into the commercial world. Encouraging STEM education, particularly its women.

We have a Supreme Court Justice, no thanks to the Democrats, who will fight against anything and everything Trump does.Trump is trying to govern, but the Democrats and the media are so caught up in the “resistance” that it is almost impossible. He has enemies at every side. He has people in the White House leaking everything going on there. No one in Washington, wants an outsider at the helm, and they will try to take him down in every single way.

The wall can’t be built in a few months, and unfortunately, we have political judges who are putting the stops to everything he wants to do to give our country better security.

The numbers of people crossing the borders illegally has gone way down.

He was able to free an American citizen held prisoner in Egypt, that Obama did nothing about.

It is almost impossible to find out anything good Trump has done, because the media is biased and this is where we get most of our information. What do you think the enemies of the US are doing while all the chaos is ensuing? I’m sure we will find out.
ITA exactly. The liberal left media will stop at nothing, including lying and not reporting all the good Trump has done, in order to try and destroy him. But you know what? People aren’t as stupid as they think, and are on to that game. The news media and the Democrats in congress would rather block any good being done rather than cooperate, and they admit it and do it deliberately. Their actions are destructive to the country. I was a Democrat all my life until this election, and after seeing their actions and hearing their words, I will never go back.

Trump may have his faults, but he is doing the best he can. What do people expect in 3 months?
 
Didn’t vote as I saw both as a detriment to the country. I’ve heard enough of them for the last 30 years.

Financially I’m doing as well as I was under Obama. So let’s give some credit to Janet Yellen.
 
Excellent president.

He has kept all his promises.
He is defunding Planned Parenthood.
He is pro-life.
He fired the FBI director who ignored Hillary Clinton’s crimes.
 
Trump may have his faults, but he is doing the best he can. What do people expect in 3 months?
Credibility. Trump has no credibility anymore. He’s the one who can’t stop lying. It’s the media’s fault he can’t stop tweeting at 3am when he should be sleeping and that none of his cronies can stick with coherent talking points? How is that “lying” on the part of the media? I mean, we’re talking about a guy who had a Holocaust denier and former WH Easter Bunny as his spokesman. 🤷
 
Excellent president.

He has kept all his promises.
He is defunding Planned Parenthood.
He is pro-life.
He fired the FBI director who ignored Hillary Clinton’s crimes.
What about the promise to lock her up? Benghazi? It’s kind of odd nobody wants to talk about Benghazi anymore. 🤷
 
Credibility. Trump has no credibility anymore. He’s the one who can’t stop lying. It’s the media’s fault he can’t stop tweeting at 3am when he should be sleeping and that none of his cronies can stick with coherent talking points? How is that “lying” on the part of the media? I mean, we’re talking about a guy who had a Holocaust denier and former WH Easter Bunny as his spokesman. 🤷
You are cutting Trump down because Spicer played the role of Easter Bunny for kids?
Who was the Holocaust denier or are you following suit with the MSM and making that up?
 
What about the promise to lock her up? Benghazi? It’s kind of odd nobody wants to talk about Benghazi anymore. 🤷
I responded to that earlier. I guess the hour or so since I did has passed another deadline for you.
 
ITA exactly. The liberal left media will stop at nothing, including lying and not reporting all the good Trump has done, in order to try and destroy him. But you know what? People aren’t as stupid as they think, and are on to that game. The news media and the Democrats in congress would rather block any good being done rather than cooperate, and they admit it and do it deliberately. Their actions are destructive to the country. I was a Democrat all my life until this election, and after seeing their actions and hearing their words, I will never go back.

Trump may have his faults, but he is doing the best he can. What do people expect in 3 months?
Well, you stuck it out longer than I did. I was a Democrat all my life and held office in the party until I realized one could not simultaneously follow the teachings of the Church and those of the Dem party.

But had I managed to stick it out, this encouragement to anarchy that the Dems are now promoting has additionally disgusted me. it seems like they don’t care about anything other than their own power, and that’s plenty scary. If they treat the president and his followers the way they do, what on earth would make anybody think that party cares anything about them? They don’t care how much damage they do to the country.

It’s too bad. The Dem party was once a great party, and worthy of respect. Now, it’s something terrible.
 
Wow this thread made it to 7 pages and the OP did not have a link to a news story! :eek:
 
The most positive thing for me is the long-term effect his presidency will have. The left is playing defence for the first time since the great Senator Joe McCarthy was rooting out Communists from the United States government. Just look at their slogan “Resist”. That means they don’t have their own gameplan, they just oppose. You don’t win by just opposing, you have to have an offense. It’s great watching them take so many L’s when they thought they were closing in on final victory and the marginalization of the Republican party. How quickly things can change.
 
That has a huge impact on American Catholics, given the severe shortage of pens in this country.
As a person who identifies left-handed, I take umbrage at your attempted humor about pens. A CIS-normative individual has no idea how hard it is to find a pen that writes well for the alternatively handed.

Although, I do find that newer gel pens can be delightful.

:D:D:p:D:D
 
Coming from across the pond, I’ve read a bit in the British media about President Trump’s time in office so far, but I wondered what it’s really been like for Catholics in the US.

I’m curious to know:

Have there been any major surprises - good or bad?

Has your opinion of Trump as a man changed since he was elected?

You don’t have to say how you voted - but if you had to vote all over again, would you vote the same?

Day to day, have you noticed anything ***fundamentally different ***yet being under Trump rather than Obama?

Media coverage here is fairly polarised: either gloom and doom about Trump being a ‘loose cannon’ or Trump being a beacon of common sense …and not much in between (apart from lots of photos of Ivanka’s outfits!!!)
No contest. Definitely better than Hillary Clinton. A refreshing change to the Presidency. Hopefully he will be able to do the things he wanted to do, which is not easy, with all the wolves waiting for the crumbs to fall. 😉
 
That’s exactly how to lose your backside in the market; try to predict the ups and downs. Studies prove it.
I agree. But one should not count their chickens before they hatch. It is just a bet peeve I have, people forgetting that stock prices can go down, and until you sell, you haven’t earned or loss anything.

:banghead:
 
Well, you stuck it out longer than I did. I was a Democrat all my life and held office in the party until I realized one could not simultaneously follow the teachings of the Church and those of the Dem party.

But had I managed to stick it out, this encouragement to anarchy that the Dems are now promoting has additionally disgusted me. it seems like they don’t care about anything other than their own power, and that’s plenty scary. If they treat the president and his followers the way they do, what on earth would make anybody think that party cares anything about them? They don’t care how much damage they do to the country.

It’s too bad. The Dem party was once a great party, and worthy of respect. Now, it’s something terrible.
The Republican party is not all it once was either during the era of Eisenhower and even Reagan. Further, you note how the Democrats treat the current president as if the Republicans had not treated Obama shamefully. They were determined from day one to block any and all of his initiatives and to dispose of him as soon as possible. Partisanship in Congress on both sides of the aisle is at its maximum and the welfare of the country takes a back seat.
 
Coming from across the pond, I’ve read a bit in the British media about President Trump’s time in office so far, but I wondered what it’s really been like for Catholics in the US.

I’m curious to know:

Have there been any major surprises - good or bad?

Has your opinion of Trump as a man changed since he was elected?

You don’t have to say how you voted - but if you had to vote all over again, would you vote the same?

Day to day, have you noticed anything ***fundamentally different ***yet being under Trump rather than Obama?

Media coverage here is fairly polarised: either gloom and doom about Trump being a ‘loose cannon’ or Trump being a beacon of common sense …and not much in between (apart from lots of photos of Ivanka’s outfits!!!)
I like him. I voted for him proudly. But I think it will be a hard process to fudementally change the politics and journalism.

One thing I honestly didn’t see coming is the absolute hate, and blind bitterness from people who probably think they are quite level headed and tolerant.

Nope.
 
I like him. I voted for him proudly. But I think it will be a hard process to fudementally change the politics and journalism.

One thing I honestly didn’t see coming is the absolute hate, and blind bitterness from people who probably think they are quite level headed and tolerant.

Nope.
+1
 
I’m not a fan of Trump, but I don’t dislike him. At least, anymore than I dislike any other politician… He’s done a few things I’m not keen on and that whole “alternative facts” ordeal was a wee bit to Orwellian for me… But if he actually broke up those “too big to fail” banks I’d be a bit impressed.

Not expecting it, though.

Still voting Yog-Sothoth/Barbra Walters 2020.
 
Thank you so much everyone who has responded: I’ve learned far more from you than I have from any media coverage. I’ll have a proper read-through this evening when I’m back from work.

🙂 I never knew there was such an appalling pen shortage in the US. Is there something we can do in the UK? Would you like Boris to come over with a box of fountain pens?
 
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