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Trump’s list: 289 accomplishments in just 20 months; this is ‘relentless’ promise-keeping.
Original Publication Date | October 12, 2018 08:43 AM - See Conclusion at bottom of this report.
The Trump administration’s often overlooked list of achievements has surpassed those of former President Ronald Reagan at this time and more than doubled since the last tally of accomplishments after his first year in office, giving President Trump a solid platform to run for re-election on.
As Trump nears the two-year mark of his historic election and conducts political rallies around the country, during which he talks up his wins in hopes it will energize Republican voters, the administration has counted up 289 accomplishments in 18 categories, capped by the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
They include 173 major wins, such as adding more than 4 million jobs, and another 116 smaller victories, some with outsize importance, such as the 83 percent one-year increase in arrests of MS-13 gang members.
“Trump’s successes in reducing the cost of taxes and regulations, rebuilding our military, avoiding wars of choice and changing the courts rival those of all previous Republican presidents,” said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.
“Trump has an advantage over Ronald Reagan: He has a Reagan Republican House and Senate while Reagan had a [Democratic Speaker] Tip O’Neill House and a pre-Reagan Republican Senate. Reagan and [former GOP Speaker] Newt Gingrich were the ice breakers that allowed Trump’s victories to grow in number and significance,” he added.
Unlike the Year One list which included many proposals and orders still to be acted on, the new collection includes dozens of actions already in place, signed legislation, and enforced executive orders.
For example, while the Year One list bragged about the administration’s efforts to rewrite the much-maligned NAFTA trade deal with Canada and Mexico, the Year Two list said: “Negotiated an historic U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement to replace NAFTA.”
In December, Secrets reported on the first list of White House accomplishments.
And shockingly the NAFTA achievement is presented as a sidebar to the larger achievement that reads, “President Trump is negotiating and renegotiating better trade deals, achieving free, fair, and reciprocal trade for the United States.” Under that umbrella are eight trade deals cut with Japan, South Korea, Europe and China.
“President Trump is a truly unique leader in American history. He’s a kid from Queens who became an international business leader and made billions by getting things when no one said he could,” said Trump’s 2016 campaign pollster John McLaughlin.
“They told him he couldn’t be president and beat the establishment and he did. For two years the establishment is telling him he can’t do things in Washington and he’s succeeding in spite of them. He never retreats. He doesn’t back up. He’s relentless. He just wins,” he added.
Comparing the two years shows that the latest has an expanded group of economic achievements while the pro-life category was folded into the health care section.
Along the way, there have been some disappointments, such as failing to replace Obamacare, fund a big infrastructure plan, and build the border wall.
But the White House believes that despite a lack of media coverage of his accomplishments, supporters know about them and will head to the voting polls to help the GOP maintain control of the House and keep the president on what CNN dubbed a “winning streak.”
In the Washington Post Friday, former Bush speechwriter and columnist Marc Thiessen agreed and said that Trump has proven to be successful at keeping his campaign promises. He wrote, “The fact is, in his first two years, Trump has compiled a remarkable record of presidential promise-keeping.”
The list:
Economic GrowthJobs
American Income
American Optimism
American Business
Deregulation
Tax Cuts
Worker Development
Domestic Infrastructure
Health Care
Combating Opioids
Law and Order
Border Security and Immigration
Trade
Energy
Foreign Policy
Defense
Veterans affairs
CONCLUSION
Whilst there are still several disappointments on his list, President Trump appears to have dropped a few of his campaign promises. His followers will be somewhat disappointed at his refusal to revisit them.
Here is a list of the promises, which according to https://www.politifact.com President Trump is not attempting to honour.
Enact term limits
Bring back waterboarding
Establish a commission on radical Islam
Allow individuals to deduct health care insurance premiums from taxes
Administer Medicaid through block grants
Cancel all funding of sanctuary cities
Establish a ban on Muslims entering the U.S.
Remove existing Syrian refugees
Sue his accusers of sexual misconduct
Release his tax returns after an audit is completed
Create targeted child care tax credits
Cut the number of tax brackets
Repeal the alternative minimum tax
Eliminate the carried interest loophole
Balance the federal budget 'fairly quickly'
Change the name of Mount Denali back to Mount McKinley
Stop the AT&T Time Warner Merger
Clearly, this is still a President in situ, hopefully in his next tenure, Trump will complete his list of promises and be added to the list collated by historian Joseph J. Ellis who stated that he can only think of two presidents who ran honest campaigns and actually delivered on all of their promises: George Washington and James K. Polk.
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