Trump's first year

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Originally Posted by n david

Jobs and the economy

Passage of the tax reform bill providing $5.5 billion in cuts and repealing the Obamacare mandate.
Increase of the GDP above 3 percent.
Creation of 1.7 million new jobs, cutting unemployment to 4.1 percent.
Saw the Dow Jones reach record highs.
A rebound in economic confidence to a 17-year high.
A new executive order to boost apprenticeships.
A move to boost computer sciences in Education Department programs.
Prioritizing women-owned businesses for some $500 million in SBA loans.

Which of these were part of the MAGA campaign rhetoric?

Killing job-stifling regulations

Signed an Executive Order demanding that two regulations be killed for every new one creates. He beat that big and cut 16 rules and regulations for every one created, saving $8.1 billion.
Signed 15 congressional regulatory cuts.
Withdrew from the Obama-era Paris Climate Agreement, ending the threat of environmental regulations.
Signed an Executive Order cutting the time for infrastructure permit approvals.
Eliminated an Obama rule on streams that Trump felt unfairly targeted the coal industry.

The Paris deal a definite plus. But, which of the others were part of the campaign promises?

Fair trade

Made good on his campaign promise to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Opened up the North American Free Trade Agreement for talks to better the deal for the U.S.
Worked to bring companies back to the U.S., and companies like Toyota, Mazda, Broadcom Limited, and Foxconn announced plans to open U.S. plants.
Worked to promote the sale of U.S products abroad.
Made enforcement of U.S. trade laws, especially those that involve national security, a priority.
Ended Obama’s deal with Cuba.

TPP xyz being killed a definite plus. As for NAFTA, did he promise to "renegotiate" or kill it?

Boosting U.S. energy dominance

The Department of Interior, which has led the way in cutting regulations, opened plans to lease 77 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling.
Trump traveled the world to promote the sale and use of U.S. energy.
Expanded energy infrastructure projects like the Keystone XL Pipeline snubbed by Obama.
Ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to kill Obama’s Clean Power Plan.
EPA is reconsidering Obama rules on methane emissions.

China in Alaska? Anyway, which of these were campaign promises?

Protecting the U.S. homeland

Laid out new principles for reforming immigration and announced plan to end "chain migration," which lets one legal immigrant to bring in dozens of family members.
Made progress to build the border wall with Mexico.
Ended the Obama-era “catch and release” of illegal immigrants.
Boosted the arrests of illegals inside the U.S.
Doubled the number of counties participating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement charged with deporting illegals.
Removed 36 percent more criminal gang members than in fiscal 2016.
Started the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program.
Ditto for other amnesty programs like Deferred Action for Parents of Americans.
Cracking down on some 300 sanctuary cities that defy ICE but still get federal dollars.
Added some 100 new immigration judges.

DACA? Didn't he say that was to be gone on day one? We're deporting less now than under Obama? Syrian refugees? Somali refugees? H1B visas? etc etc? Progress on the wall? How long does it take to just build a wall?

Protecting communities

Justice announced grants of $98 million to fund 802 new cops.
Justice worked with Central American nations to arrest and charge 4,000 MS-13 members.
Homeland rounded up nearly 800 MS-13 members, an 83 percent one-year increase.
Signed three executive orders aimed at cracking down on international criminal organizations.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions created new National Public Safety Partnership, a cooperative initiative with cities to reduce violent crimes.

How many Sanctuary City mayors got arrested for federal offenses? Just wondering...

Accountability

Trump has nominated 73 federal judges and won his nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
Ordered ethical standards including a lobbying ban.
Called for a comprehensive plan to reorganize the executive branch.
Ordered an overhaul to modernize the digital government.
Called for a full audit of the Pentagon and its spending.

The appointments were due to vacancies. Do you realize each of the claimed accomplishments above are worded in standard campaign rhetoric form? "He's made life more better for more people!" But the claims don't actually specify much of anything?

Combating opioids

First, the president declared a Nationwide Public Health Emergency on opioids.

Is that Constitutional?

His Council of Economic Advisors played a role in determining that overdoses are underreported by as much as 24 percent.
The Department of Health and Human Services laid out a new five-point strategy to fight the crisis.
Justice announced it was scheduling fentanyl substances as a drug class under the Controlled Substances Act.
Justice started a fraud crackdown, arresting more than 400.
The administration added $500 million to fight the crisis.
On National Drug Take Back Day, the Drug Enforcement Agency collected 456 tons.

Is any of this lawful under the Constitution? What about former DEA, CIA, and .mil whistleblowers who have for decades been claiming the drugs are primarily supplied and distributed by DEA, CIA, and .mil? Has he looked into that?

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ye...rticle/2644159

I read that article before asking and noticed they sounded more like campaign commercial soundbites than actual data.

Why is Hillary not under indictment? Why the bellicose relations with Syria, North Korea, Russia, Yemen, Afghanistan, etc etc etc when he campaigned on being non-interventionist? and anti neo-con?

Doesn't he look more and more like a standard GOP "conservative"? He wasn't supported because he promised new Wall Street highs, top-tier tax cuts, entitlement reform, increased military action in global hotspots, kissing Tel Aviv's rumpus, massaging Obamacare, kicking DACA down the road into an amnesty program, etc...