There were times when that was going on that I honestly wondered whether Trump was a genius. I can't thing of anything he did from a legislative perspective that was really problematic but he exerted almost total control of the media cycle 140 characters at a time.
Huge tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy without cutting services would be the first thing I'd ding his administration on.
Not stopping the family separation at the southern border.
Sending bad medical advice and politicizing response to a national healthcare crisis with COVID-19.
Abandoning Puerto Rico after a devastating Hurricane.
Not offering a replacement for Obamacare as promised, instead only gutting the process to make it more expensive for people who still try to get insurance. Especially for not implementing a single payer healthcare system like the entire rest of the civilized world uses to offer much more efficient healthcare to the populace.
Not fixing the Social Security deficit.
Engaging in a trade war with China without an apparent exit strategy.
> Huge tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy without cutting services would be the first thing I'd ding his administration on.
Agreed. The lack of accompanying service cuts really kept this from being as effective as it could have been.
> Abandoning Puerto Rico after a devastating Hurricane.
Yea, that was really bad.
> Engaging in a trade war with China without an apparent exit strategy.
I was actually pretty happy with how that went. A lot of progress was made, including stopping China from being able to abuse our own postal service to undercut local vendors on shipping. Before Covid hit, I was most looking forward to seeing continued progress there.
> Sending bad medical advice and politicizing response to a national healthcare crisis with COVID-19.
I'm not going to go deep into this, but suffice it to say it was an election year and everything was politicized by everyone.
Everything below here is just maintaining the status quo. I wouldn't call any of these Trump specific.
> Not stopping the family separation at the southern border.
This is admittedly horrifying, however, the amount of people coming over the border without any identification combined with the potential for trafficking makes it a complicated problem to solve. Not solving it was also just maintaining the status quo.
> Not offering a replacement for Obamacare as promised, instead only gutting the process to make it more expensive for people who still try to get insurance. Especially for not implementing a single payer healthcare system like the entire rest of the civilized world uses to offer much more efficient healthcare to the populace.
Agreed and disappointing. It's also an incredibly hard problem to solve without turning the entire country upside down. Dangling the carrot is easier (for both parties).
> Not fixing the Social Security deficit.
Been a problem for years that neither party is willing to make the hard decisions to correct.
