2 hours agoSix months on duty, this is Donald Trump's balance.
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)On Thursday, US President Donald Trump wraps up his first six months in office. It has been an unusual debut for an entity and star of spectacles converted into commander-in-chief, marked by clashes with political rivals and the press, a failed promise to bring down and replace “Obamacare” and with the discovery [...]
On Thursday, US President Donald Trump wraps up his first six months in office. It has been an unusual debut for an entity and star of spectacles converted into commander-in-chief, marked by clashes with political rivals and the press, a failed promise to overthrow and replace “Obamacare” and with the continuing discovery of new details about Russia's influence in the 2016 elections.
But what is most likely, in all this whirlwind of events, has no significant legislative achievements in these six months.
Trump support in the polls has declined, reaching the lowest levels in history. A recent Washington Post and ABC News survey gives him 36 per cent support. During his election campaign, Trump held regular press conferences, heard questions, and answered, but history changed when he became president. From January 20th until now, he has held only a single press conference, while in his first year in office Obama held 11 such ones, George Bush 5 and Bill Clinton 12.
Trump has signed dozens of executive orders and presidential proclamations. In total, Trump has turned 42 bills into laws. But when it comes to important laws, such as infrastructure, tax reform, or even the collapse and replacement of “Obamacare”, Trump stops at zero.
Health care is currently frozen, tax reform is expected to be the next major challenge for the republics. Keeping campaign promises, Trump has withdrawn the US from two important agreements, in its first days in office withdrew from the trans-communal partnership. - Peaceful and months later by the Paris climate deal.
Trump has met with a number of foreign leaders in his first month in office, but French President Emmanuel Macron has received special attention. Six interactions between them, in Brussels and later in Paris, both have spent a full minute shaking hands.
Meanwhile, from the moment Trump took his oath on January 20th, 991 posts were made from his account in Titter. “Fake news” and “fake media” is mentioned in 82 of them.
When Barack Obama was on duty, Trump regularly complained at Titeter about the way he spent his spare time. Now, in six months as the White House master, he has spent 21 out of 26 weekends on property with his full 40 days in golf courses.
