To “stay in office for another term,” Trump has already pulled the dirtiest ‘trick’ of all: The SOB kept most of his campaign promises — even the outrageous ones!
- This SOB (“Son of a Billionaire”) had the gall to move our Israeli embassy to Jerusalem—keeping the campaign promises of the last several presidents.Presidents Who Promised to Move the US Embassy to Jerusalem.
- Trump lowered taxes for almost everyone, especially for corporations—which was a major campaign promise—Making American Corporations Competitive Again! He lowered our corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%—matching the current average of the European Union! European Union Corporate Tax Rate.
- The tax cuts caused corporations and money to flow back to the U.S.
- It caused our current 50-year low unemployment rate of only 3.5 percent! Employment Situation Summary (labor statistics).
- We currently have the largest labor force in our history—which means we also have the largest tax base with more tax revenue.
- How much more tax revenue? $133,000,000,000 more is the increased revenue from Trump’s Tax Cuts based on the first full fiscal year 2019 compared to 2018 (Oct 1 through Sept 30). Mnuchin and Vought Release Joint Statement on Budget Results for Fiscal Year 2019.
- It caused Two million families to earn enough to leave the Food Stamp Program in fiscal year 2019 alone, saving over $11,000,000,000. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
- It caused real wages to go up roughly 5% as low unemployment caused tight labor markets. Local Area Personal Income: 2018 and Real Disposable Personal Income Rises. In fact statistics show that the largest increases are among people with lower incomes.
- Most union workers know the economy is strong: Frankly, one of the best indicators is the number of workers willing to flex ‘union muscles’ and go on strike—GM just finished one of the largest strikes last month (costing over $1 Billion). Typically, only government unions strike in a bad economy. The number of workers on strike hits the highest since the 1980s.
3. Trump renegotiated rotten trade deals between our major trading partners:
a. NAFTA is out, and the new USMCA is in (as soon as Nancy gets off her duff and brings it to a vote—the Canadians and Mexicans have already approved it and we are only waiting on her). USMCA.
b. Trump did a deal with Japan and Korea (U.S. and South Korea Agree Auto Trade Deal) and he is close to a deal with China where China will buy three times what they previously bought from our farmers.
i. These trade deals are not just for show. South Korea imported 39.9% more Chrysler vehicles in the first 10 months of 2019 because the deal removed regulations that made American cars more expensive in Korea. South Korean import sales rise in October.
4. Trump’s policies engendered enough investor confidence that the stock market has gone up significantly even during a trade war, which is usually a big downer for stocks. If you have a 401-K, IRA, or mutual funds invested in the stock market (and 60% of Americans’ pensions do), the DOW is up 45% since Trump’s election. Stock Market Results: Early Trump vs. Early Obama.
a. Note that ABC, CNN, NBC, MSNBC and many others predicted a crash if Trump were elected, but the opposite occurred: Wall Street welcomes Trump with a bang: Dow soars 257 points, nears lifetime high.
5. Trump rebuilt depleted military. Now Trump is pressuring allies in NATO to keep their promise—to spend 2% of their GDP on their own military, to lighten our burden. Now we are selling them military equipment. Europe's defense spending nears $300 billion as experts say Trump's pressure is paying off.
6. Trump donated his presidential salary: Trump feels 'very good' about donating 2nd-quarter salary to Surgeon General's Office by CNN.
7. Trump donated his profits from foreign dignitaries, royal families, and governments to avoid even the appearance of impropriety: Trump Org donates nearly $200k to cover foreign profits last year, up from previous year. And he laid out how profits from foreign governments would be identified and calculated. Trump Org Pamphlet Foreign Profits.pdf from House Oversight Committee.
8. Trump got rid of costly burdensome regulations—so businesses could thrive easier and make better products that people actually want.
a. How does this help you? Your crppy dishwasher is a prime example of absurd unnecessary environmental regulations run amok. If you’re like me, you wash dishes before or after using the dishwasher, and you use a lot of hot water, inherently compensating for the dishwasher’s water and energy efficiency! Opinion | Make Dishwashers That Clean Again by WSJ.
i. If you were around in the 1980s, you probably remember dishwashers cleaning dishes the first time, no matter how dirty or crusty they were. And it only took an hour—including drying time. Your Dishwasher Takes Too Long and It's the Government's Fault. Here's the Solution.
ii. On a personal note, I have six kids, a sick wife on bed rest, and no time to waste rewashing dishes that the dmn $1,100-dishwasher can’t handle. You can’t really call it conservation when you have to waste three times as much hot water washing dishes by hand just so your dishwasher can dry them. Cleaning’s already a btch and we don’t need the government in our dishwasher (or toilet, for that matter). These “environmental regulations” don’t really save water or energy, and they are damn inconvenient. Trump should be reelected for the next 12 years just for this! (And please make toilets great again too: Toilets that actually flush the first time).
9. Trump Made America Energy Independent. The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years. We produce more energy than any country in the world. He also brought back clean coal, where the carbon is recaptured and stored underground. Office of Clean Coal and Carbon Management. Also see What is clean coal technology?
10. Trump appointed judges with an “originalist” philosophy. I’m an attorney, so these appointments are important to me. You may ask, what’s all the fuss about and why do Democrats say the sky is falling? There’s a big difference between the Trump and Obama judicial appointments, and Trump already appointed two Supreme Court justices and 150 lower district and appellate judges.
a. Obama’s appointments basically believe in a ‘living Constitution’, which means they will interpret the U.S. Constitution however needed to get the desired social outcome; the meaning of the words are easily adaptable.
b. Trump’s Originalist judges interpret the Constitution with the meaning intended during the era when it was written or amended. And if you want to change the meaning, then you must amend it—And it’s supposed to be difficult, so people have consistency and fair warning when a change is coming.
c. How important is it? Look how hard the Leftist Democrats fought to kill Justice Kavanagh’s appointment. If you want to know just how unjustified the Democrats were in their crazy attack against him, I wrote this article you can comment on: Eric Earley's answer to The re-emergence of the Kavanaugh controversy could hurt Democrats' Senate chances in 2020. Is it true? It proves why the “evidence” was ignored as not creditable.
11. And Trump is now building the wall and Mexico actually will pay for it! Mexico boasts migration crackdown ahead of talks on US tariff threat. Trump threatened tariffs, which would have easily paid for the wall several times over every year. So Mexico jumped at the opportunity to make a human Wall of soldiers to slow the migration until the Wall is built. 'Doing the U.S.' dirty work': Mexico defends deployment of 15,000 troops to shared border.
a. Note: Republicans feel that the Wall is a humanitarian answer to the estimated 20,000 migrants kidnapped annually and the six in ten migrant women and girls raped on the journey; See Most Dangerous Journey: What Migrants Face When They Try to Cross the Border by Amnesty International.
b. Literally 1000’s of dead migrants have been found in the desert: Death in the desert: The dangerous trek between Mexico and Arizona
c. This Humanitarian Wall will easily be paid for by the increased revenue from the requirements of the USMCA, which Mexico has already signed, and which will reduce our $72,000,000,000 trade deficit sufficiently to easily cover the cost of the Wall. (See video at bottom, which shows the first 75 Miles of new Wall, built where old fence was literally falling apart).