The Accomplishments of Donald Trump / like him or not, he did all this!

[thepainterdoug]

As I look back, hard to believe how far we have fallen since. No wonder why they wanted him gone. /

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Trump recently signed three bills to benefit Native people. One gives compensation to the Spokane tribe for loss of their lands in the mid-1900s, one funds Native language programs, and the third gives federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Montana.
Trump finalized the creation of Space Force as our 6th Military branch.
Trump signed a law to make cruelty to animals a federal felony so that animal abusers face tougher consequences.
Violent crime has fallen every year he’s been in office after rising during the two years before he was elected.
Trump signed a bill making CBD and Hemp legal.
Trump’s EPA gave $100 million to fix the water infrastructure problem in Flint, Michigan.
Under Trump’s leadership, in 2018 the U.S. surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest producer of crude oil.
Trump signed a law ending the gag orders on pharmacists that prevented them from sharing money-saving information.
Trump signed the “Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act” (FOSTA), which includes the “Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act” (SESTA) which both give law enforcement and victims new tools to fight sex trafficking.
Trump signed a bill to require airports to provide spaces for breastfeeding moms.
The 25% lowest-paid Americans enjoyed a 4.5% income boost in November 2019, which outpaces a 2.9% gain in earnings for the country’s highest-paid workers.
Low-wage workers are benefiting from higher minimum wages and from corporations that are increasing entry-level pay.
Trump signed the biggest wilderness protection & conservation bill in a decade and designated 375,000 acres as protected land.
Trump signed the Save our Seas Act which funds $10 million per year to clean tons of plastic & garbage from the ocean.
He signed a bill this year allowing some drug imports from Canada so that prescription prices would go down.
Trump signed an executive order this year that forces all healthcare providers to disclose the cost of their services so that Americans can comparison shop and know how much less providers charge insurance companies.
When signing that bill he said no American should be blindsided by bills for medical services they never agreed to in advance.
Hospitals will now be required to post their standard charges for services, which include the discounted price a hospital is willing to accept.
In the eight years prior to President Trump’s inauguration, prescription drug prices increased by an average of 3.6% per year. Under Trump, drug prices have seen year-over-year declines in nine of the last ten months, with a 1.1% drop as of the most recent month.
He created a White House VA Hotline to help veterans and principally staffed it with veterans and direct family members of veterans.
VA employees are being held accountable for poor performance, with more than 4,000 VA employees removed, demoted, and suspended so far.
Issued an executive order requiring the Secretaries of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs to submit a joint plan to provide veterans access to access to mental health treatment as they transition to civilian life.
Because of a bill signed and championed by Trump, in 2020, most federal employees will see their pay increase by an average of 3.1% — the largest raise in more than 10 years.
Trump signed into a law up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for millions of federal workers.
Trump administration will provide HIV prevention drugs for free to 200,000 uninsured patients per year for 11 years.
All-time record sales during the 2019 holidays.
Trump signed an order allowing small businesses to group together when buying insurance to get a better price.
President Trump signed the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act that provides funding for states to develop maternal mortality reviews to better understand maternal complications and identify solutions & largely focuses on reducing the higher mortality rates for Black Americans.
In 2018, President Trump signed the groundbreaking First Step Act, a criminal justice bill which enacted reforms that make our justice system fairer and help former inmates successfully return to society.
The First Step Act’s reforms addressed inequities in sentencing laws that disproportionately harmed Black Americans and reformed mandatory minimums that created unfair outcomes.
The First Step Act expanded judicial discretion in sentencing of non-violent crimes.
Over 90% of those benefiting from the retroactive sentencing reductions in the First Step Act are Black Americans.
The First Step Act provides rehabilitative programs to inmates, helping them successfully rejoin society and not return to crime.
Trump increased funding for historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) by more than 14%.
Trump signed legislation forgiving Hurricane Katrina debt that threatened HBCUs.
New single-family home sales are up 31.6% in October 2019 compared to just one year ago.
Made HBCUs a priority by creating the position of executive director of the White House Initiative on HBCUs.
Trump received the Bipartisan Justice Award at a historically black college for his criminal justice reform accomplishments.
The poverty rate fell to a 17-year low of 11.8% under the Trump administration as a result of a jobs-rich environment.
Poverty rates for African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans have reached their lowest levels since the U.S. began collecting such data.
President Trump signed a bill that creates five national monuments, expands several national parks, adds 1.3 million acres of wilderness, and permanently reauthorizes the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
Trump’s USDA committed $124 Million to rebuild rural water infrastructure.
[Prior to the unexpected coronavirus pandemic] Consumer confidence & small business confidence is at an all time high.
[Prior to the unexpected coronavirus pandemic] More than 7 million jobs created since election.
[Prior to the unexpected coronavirus pandemic] More Americans were employed than ever recorded before in our history.
More than 400,000 manufacturing jobs created since his election.
Trump appointed five openly gay ambassadors.
Trump ordered Ric Grenell, his openly gay ambassador to Germany, to lead a global initiative to decriminalize homosexuality across the globe.
Through Trump’s Anti-Trafficking Coordination Team (ACTeam) initiative, Federal law enforcement more than doubled convictions of human traffickers and increased the number of defendants charged by 75% in ACTeam districts.
In 2018, the Department of Justice (DOJ) dismantled an organization that was the internet’s leading source of prostitution-related advertisements resulting in sex trafficking.
Trump’s OMB published new anti-trafficking guidance for government procurement officials to more effectively combat human trafficking.
Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations arrested 1,588 criminals associated with Human Trafficking.
Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services provided funding to support the National Human Trafficking Hotline to identify perpetrators and give victims the help they need.
The hotline identified 16,862 potential human trafficking cases.
Trump’s DOJ provided grants to organizations that support human trafficking victims – serving nearly 9,000 cases from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018.
The Department of Homeland Security has hired more victim assistance specialists, helping victims get resources and support.
President Trump has called on Congress to pass school choice legislation so that no child is trapped in a failing school because of his or her zip code.
The President signed funding legislation in September 2018 that increased funding for school choice by $42 million.
The tax cuts signed into law by President Trump promote school choice by allowing families to use 529 college savings plans for elementary and secondary education.
Under his leadership ISIS has lost most of their territory and been largely dismantled.
ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was killed.
Signed the first Perkins CTE reauthorization since 2006, authorizing more than $1 billion for states each year to fund vocational and career education programs.
Executive order expanding apprenticeship opportunities for students and workers.
Trump issued an Executive Order prohibiting the U.S. government from discriminating against Christians or punishing expressions of faith.
Signed an executive order that allows the government to withhold money from college campuses deemed to be anti-Semitic and who fail to combat anti-Semitism.
President Trump ordered a halt to U.S. tax money going to international organizations that fund or perform abortions.
Trump imposed sanctions on the socialists in Venezuela who have killed their citizens.
Finalized new trade agreement with South Korea.
Made a deal with the European Union to increase U.S. energy exports to Europe.
Withdrew the U.S. from the job killing TPP deal.
Secured $250 billion in new trade and investment deals in China and $12 billion in Vietnam.
Okay’d up to $12 billion in aid for farmers affected by unfair trade retaliation.
Has had over a dozen US hostages freed, including those Obama could not get freed.
Trump signed the Music Modernization Act, the biggest change to copyright law in decades.
Trump secured billions that will fund the building of a wall at our southern border.
The Trump Administration is promoting second chance hiring to give former inmates the opportunity to live crime-free lives and find meaningful employment.
Trump’s DOJ and the Board Of Prisons launched a new “Ready to Work Initiative” to help connect employers directly with former prisoners.
President Trump’s historic tax cut legislation included new Opportunity Zone Incentives to promote investment in low-income communities across the country.
8,764 communities across the country have been designated as Opportunity Zones.
Opportunity Zones are expected to spur $100 billion in long-term private capital investment in economically distressed communities across the country.
Trump directed the Education Secretary to end Common Core.
Trump signed the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund into law.
Trump signed measure funding prevention programs for Veteran suicide.
Companies have brought back over a TRILLION dollars from overseas because of the TCJA bill that Trump signed.
[Prior to the coronavirus pandemic] manufacturing jobs were growing at the fastest rate in more than 30 years.
[Prior to the coronavirus pandemic] the stock market reached record highs.
[Prior to the coronavirus pandemic] Median household income hit highest level ever recorded.
[Prior to the coronavirus pandemic] African-American unemployment is at an all time low.
[Prior to the coronavirus pandemic] Hispanic-American unemployment is at an all time low.
[Prior to the coronavirus pandemic] Asian-American unemployment is at an all time low.
[Prior to the coronavirus pandemic] women’s unemployment rate was at a 65-year low.
[Prior to the coronavirus pandemic] Youth unemployment is at a 50-year low.
[Prior to the coronavirus pandemic] We had the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded.
The Pledge to America’s Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans.
[Prior to the coronavirus pandemic] 95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future— the highest ever.
[Prior to the coronavirus pandemic] As a result of the Republican tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.
Record number of regulations eliminated that hurt small businesses.
Signed welfare reform requiring able-bodied adults who don’t have children to work or look for work if they’re on welfare.
Under Trump, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history.
Reformed Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugs—saving seniors 100’s of millions of $$$ this year alone.
Signed Right-To-Try legislation allowing terminally ill patients to try experimental treatment that wasn’t allowed before.
Secured $6 billion in new funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.
U.S. oil production recently reached all-time high so we are less dependent on oil from the Middle East.
The U.S. is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957.
NATO allies increased their defense spending because of his pressure campaign.
Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord in 2017 and that same year the U.S. still led the world by having the largest reduction in Carbon emissions.
Has his circuit court judge nominees being confirmed faster than any other new administration.
Had his Supreme Court Justice’s Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh confirmed.
Moved U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
Agreed to a new trade deal with Mexico & Canada that will increase jobs here and $$$ coming in.
Reached a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S. exports.
Imposed tariffs on China in response to China’s forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices, has agreed to a Part One trade deal with China.
Signed legislation to improve the National Suicide Hotline.
Signed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever into law, which will advance childhood cancer research and improve treatments.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law by Trump doubled the maximum amount of the child tax credit available to parents and lifted the income limits so more people could claim it.
It also created a new tax credit for other dependents.
In 2018, President Trump signed into law a $2.4 billion funding increase for the Child Care and Development Fund, providing a total of $8.1 billion to States to fund child care for low-income families.
The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC) signed into law by Trump provides a tax credit equal to 20-35% of child care expenses, $3,000 per child & $6,000 per family + Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) allow you to set aside up to $5,000 in pre-tax $ to use for child care.
In 2019 President Donald Trump signed the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education and Support Act (CARES) into law which allocates $1.8 billion in funding over the next five years to help people with autism spectrum disorder and to help their families.
In 2019 President Trump signed into law two funding packages providing nearly $19 million in new funding for Lupus specific research and education programs, as well an additional $41.7 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the most Lupus funding EVER.
Another upcoming accomplishment to add: In the next week or two Trump will be signing the first major anti-robocall law in decades called the TRACED Act (Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence.) Once it’s the law, the TRACED Act will extend the period of time the FCC has to catch & punish those who intentionally break telemarketing restrictions. The bill also requires voice service providers to develop a framework to verify calls are legitimate before they reach your phone.
[Prior to the coronavirus pandemic] US stock market continually hit all-time record highs.

[TomKat]

So to the people who want to bring down America, he had to go!

[raregem]

@PainterDoug- That is an impressive write up you posted. Thank You so very much for this list of Trumps' accomplishments. Very valuable.

I have one problem with 45. I cannot figure out why he would say "take the vaccine for CV-19". He said it again recently. Any ideas to share? TY.

[mojo]

@PainterDoug- That is an impressive write up you posted. Thank You so very much for this list of Trumps' accomplishments. Very valuable.

I have one problem with 45. I cannot figure out why he would say "take the vaccine for CV-19". He said it again recently. Any ideas to share? TY.

X22 has shared some about the reason. He had advisors like Faucci, Collins, Birx not telling the whole truth. Trump learned how much push back there was when he wanted to tell the World about theraputics like Hydoxycloroquinn or Ivermectin. The cabal was telling World Leaders a vaccine was the only way out which could only happen in 5-10 years. Trump destroyed that plan plan by starting operation warp speed. Trump never would force the vax on people and has always said it was a choice. It's very possible with all the resistance that Trump could only take a narrow path that would save the most amount of people from the evil plan to cull the World population.

[raregem]

@Mojo-
Thank you. I listen to x22 daily. I agree with what you shared. I suppose I was feeling a bit foolish thinking how trust can be given when the very thing (Jab) is harming so many. I have believed that no poisons promoted by big pharma would ever be given UNTIL and unless they had the anti-dote. For themselves, of course. Thx again for the reminder.

[pyrangello]

Listened to an interview he did this weekend with Bill OReilly, Trump asked Pelosi for 10,000 national guard troops in Washington DC for the Jan 6 Rally, She refused to have the guard there! I wonder why??

[thepainterdoug]

i agree Trump is in a gray area with the vaxx. But imagine what he was told, the lies from all the scoundrals around him , they had this planned for a long time. He was used. Trump could have never said, hes not moving forward with the jabb, he would have been blamed for deaths, so what was he to do??

His present position is somewhat troubling, but somewhat understandable. Trump is not one for apologies about doing something wrong.
At least he has said, it would never be mandatory and a personal choice.
Im fine with that.

[amor]

Thank you Doug for that very impressive list of work done by Trump. I feel certain he did investigation on each important piece of legislation he signed, all of it was needed. If anyone asks "What did Trump do while in office?" Here is a ready list. There is one more very important one needed: Shawn David Morton of Project Camelot fame has just been released from a four-year unjust political prison term in which he served in Privatised Prisons and was treated inhumanely. One of these ways was by being put in solitary confinement for lengths of time which were against the law. He was ill treated in ways to give him cancer and withhold proper treatment, seemingly in ways meant to kill him, all because his books exposed the true horrors and existence of the Secret Space Program. These prisons extend, unfairly the terms of prisoners who should not have been sentenced there in the first place. America needs to return to Justice and Humanity in all it dealings, such that there will be no need for hideous incarceration.

[amor]

Thank you Doug for that very impressive list of work done by Trump. I feel certain he did investigation on each important piece of legislation he signed, all of it was needed. If anyone asks "What did Trump do while in office?" Here is a ready list. There is one more very important one needed: Shawn David Morton of Project Camelot fame has just been released from a four-year unjust political prison term in which he served in Privatised Prisons and was treated inhumanely. One of these ways was by being put in solitary confinement for lengths of time which were against the law. He was ill treated in ways to give him cancer and withhold proper treatment, seemingly in ways meant to kill him, all because his books exposed the true horrors and existence of the Secret Space Program. These prisons extend, unfairly the terms of prisoners who should not have been sentenced there in the first place. America needs to return to Justice and Humanity in all it dealings, such that there will be no need for hideous incarceration.

[Pam]

@PainterDoug- That is an impressive write up you posted. Thank You so very much for this list of Trumps' accomplishments. Very valuable.

I have one problem with 45. I cannot figure out why he would say "take the vaccine for CV-19". He said it again recently. Any ideas to share? TY.

X22 has shared some about the reason. He had advisors like Faucci, Collins, Birx not telling the whole truth. Trump learned how much push back there was when he wanted to tell the World about theraputics like Hydoxycloroquinn or Ivermectin. The cabal was telling World Leaders a vaccine was the only way out which could only happen in 5-10 years. Trump destroyed that plan plan by starting operation warp speed. Trump never would force the vax on people and has always said it was a choice. It's very possible with all the resistance that Trump could only take a narrow path that would save the most amount of people from the evil plan to cull the World population.

I can accept that he was in a way "duped". It would be unreasonable to expect any one person to understand everything. What I have a problem with is that to the best of my knowledge he has never acknowledged after the fact that the injections have been shown to have huge issues, even if you are only looking at the VAERS data. The last I heard he is still promoting it.

[Dennis Leahy]

...and had the most effective publisher of whistleblowers ever yanked out of an embassy (extraordinary rendition) and tortured in Belmarsh prison, where he currently rots (now with a stroke), awaiting extradition to the US for a kangaroo trial and imprisonment. Trump did that. I'm stunned that Avalon members do not have a grasp of how heinous an act this was, how important Wikileaks and Assange have been to freeing humanity and exposing the real evildoers, and how much his persecution is simply protecting the financial elite from exposure of their illegal (and immoral and unethical) activities. Anyone who isn't on Assange's side is on the side of the evil motherf***ers (even if too ignorant to recognize it.)

I really appreciate you providing that list, Doug. In the past, I watched friends do the same thing with every single miscreant that has been in the Oval Office. None of their misdeeds matter. None of them count. Every one of them painted to be some fantasy good guy American hero. As soon as you point out their actual deeds, the supporters race to offer excuses. They directly credit their hero with all the "good" deeds of the administration, and every bad deed is someone else's fault, something they were "forced" to do (but never admit how weak that would be and how ineffective the hero is against being solely a puppet.)

Trump administration spent the most ever on military, participated (fomented?) in the farce coup in Venezuela by Guaido, officially recognizing some globalist douchbag as if he was the president of Venezuela. Then, placed international criminal charges on the real president of Venezuela and 13 other cabinet members and some generals as "narco terrorists", while "sanctioning" (starving) the people of Venezuela from importing any foodstuff or medicine. All of this was done for the globalist oil corporations (Venezuela's previous president, who was probably killed by the CIA, had nationalized the oil industry. Globalist oil industry. Yes, Trump protected the globalist oil cartel. Straight out of the CIA (the real Deep State's enforcement wing) playbook. See the documentary "the Power Principle" for a refresher on the USA protecting globalist corporations in Central America.

Trump's "anti-globalism" rhetoric is just that, rhetoric. Hot air. Trump is probably the first US president to head a corporation, a dot on the Global Corporate Network diagram, while jabbering on pretending he is against globalism. Can he be so stupid that he doesn't know that his corporation is part of the Global Corporate Network?

A disreputable (ecocidal and human exploitative) international mining company wants to dig an open pit sulfide mine in northern Minnesota, right at the "Laurentian divide" where the mining water toxins either flow into Lake Superior (USA's largest supply of fresh water), or down the Mississippi river. A globalist, international mining company wanted to mine in the literal worst possible place in the USA, and Trump supported them with high enthusiasm. Trump visited little Duluth Minnesota (pop 80,000) three times in support of the international mining company.

The Native American "Water Protectors" standoff at Standing Rock against the globalist oil industry was a last embarrassing event for Obama, who didn't want to end his presidency with crushing the "Indians", but Trump quickly destroyed the nasty savages and their silly protest, and restored the globalist oil company's control. (insert photo of one of the stormtroopers here)

Syria and Trump? Trump was handed the ball by globalist bootlicker Obama, and ran with it. The siege of Syria is a production of Israel and the real US Deep State. Trump was giddy with helping Israel to destroy Syria and Palestine, keeping troops in Syria guarding Syrian oilfields for Israel's theft, moving the US embassy to Jerusalem...

It doesn't matter that Trump is megalomaniacal, boorish, elitist, has a child's vocabulary and a douchebag personality - but it does matter what he actually DID DO, and the really terrible things he did do have to be stated. I have friends that would give a pass to Obama or Trump raping their grandmother, and would say, "Well, what was she wearing?"

Others are stuck back in pre-elections and electioneering, repeating the "Trump is better than Hillary!" pragmatism as if the particular puppet actually changed the course of what the Deep State and US military were going to do during their term anyway, and it has grown really old. What a low bar. An homage to Trump (or Obama, Bushes, Clinton... or the others) that conveniently leaves out the evil/heinous/bad/illegal/unethical/ecocidal/deadly/corporatist/globalist-supporting actions is just a fantasy, a bedtime story.

[Arcturian108]

...and had the most effective publisher of whistleblowers ever yanked out of an embassy (extraordinary rendition) and tortured in Belmarsh prison, where he currently rots (now with a stroke), awaiting extradition to the US for a kangaroo trial and imprisonment. Trump did that. I'm stunned that Avalon members do not have a grasp of how heinous an act this was, how important Wikileaks and Assange have been to freeing humanity and exposing the real evildoers, and how much his persecution is simply protecting the financial elite from exposure of their illegal (and immoral and unethical) activities. Anyone who isn't on Assange's side is on the side of the evil motherf***ers (even if too ignorant to recognize it.)

I really appreciate you providing that list, Doug. In the past, I watched friends do the same thing with every single miscreant that has been in the Oval Office. None of their misdeeds matter. None of them count. Every one of them painted to be some fantasy good guy American hero. As soon as you point out their actual deeds, the supporters race to offer excuses. They directly credit their hero with all the "good" deeds of the administration, and every bad deed is someone else's fault, something they were "forced" to do (but never admit how weak that would be and how ineffective the hero is against being solely a puppet.)

Trump administration spent the most ever on military, participated (fomented?) in the farce coup in Venezuela by Guaido, officially recognizing some globalist douchbag as if he was the president of Venezuela. Then, placed international criminal charges on the real president of Venezuela and 13 other cabinet members and some generals as "narco terrorists", while "sanctioning" (starving) the people of Venezuela from importing any foodstuff or medicine. All of this was done for the globalist oil corporations (Venezuela's previous president, who was probably killed by the CIA, had nationalized the oil industry. Globalist oil industry. Yes, Trump protected the globalist oil cartel. Straight out of the CIA (the real Deep State's enforcement wing) playbook. See the documentary "the Power Principle" for a refresher on the USA protecting globalist corporations in Central America.

Trump's "anti-globalism" rhetoric is just that, rhetoric. Hot air. Trump is probably the first US president to head a corporation, a dot on the Global Corporate Network diagram, while jabbering on pretending he is against globalism. Can he be so stupid that he doesn't know that his corporation is part of the Global Corporate Network?

A disreputable (ecocidal and human exploitative) international mining company wants to dig an open pit sulfide mine in northern Minnesota, right at the "Laurentian divide" where the mining water toxins either flow into Lake Superior (USA's largest supply of fresh water), or down the Mississippi river. A globalist, international mining company wanted to mine in the literal worst possible place in the USA, and Trump supported them with high enthusiasm. Trump visited little Duluth Minnesota (pop 80,000) three times in support of the international mining company.

The Native American "Water Protectors" standoff at Standing Rock against the globalist oil industry was a last embarrassing event for Obama, who didn't want to end his presidency with crushing the "Indians", but Trump quickly destroyed the nasty savages and their silly protest, and restored the globalist oil company's control. (insert photo of one of the stormtroopers here)

Syria and Trump? Trump was handed the ball by globalist bootlicker Obama, and ran with it. The siege of Syria is a production of Israel and the real US Deep State. Trump was giddy with helping Israel to destroy Syria and Palestine, keeping troops in Syria guarding Syrian oilfields for Israel's theft, moving the US embassy to Jerusalem...

It doesn't matter that Trump is megalomaniacal, boorish, elitist, has a child's vocabulary and a douchebag personality - but it does matter what he actually DID DO, and the really terrible things he did do have to be stated. I have friends that would give a pass to Obama or Trump raping their grandmother, and would say, "Well, what was she wearing?"

Others are stuck back in pre-elections and electioneering, repeating the "Trump is better than Hillary!" pragmatism as if the particular puppet actually changed the course of what the Deep State and US military were going to do during their term anyway, and it has grown really old. What a low bar. An homage to Trump (or Obama, Bushes, Clinton... or the others) that conveniently leaves out the evil/heinous/bad/illegal/unethical/ecocidal/deadly/corporatist/globalist-supporting actions is just a fantasy, a bedtime story.

Trump was probably the best president of the United States in my lifetime (approaching my 80th). He was true to his core beliefs, which smacked of old-fashioned American exceptionalism. He was true to the "art of the deal", and to ending endless wars. The Venezuelan debacle which happened at the beginning of his reign was probably already being rolled out by the C.I.A. before he was elected, and just like Kennedy had to go along with the Cuban Bay of Pigs fiasco, Trump had to go along with the Venezuelan fiasco. He ended our involvement in the whole TPP globalist wet dream as soon as he got into office. Almost every day I felt we were on the right track as a culture and society. Whatever compromises he made over his 4-year term probably had to do with keeping himself and his family alive. We can never thank him enough for his bravery in the face of the relentless attempts we now see the globalists have for eliminating most of us from the face of the earth.

[thepainterdoug]

Denis. Thanks for your counterpoint. It is a dirty disgusting world, and certainly not the world according to myself. Can you name a benevolent world leader without a laundry list of opposition, corruption and contrary comment ?
Can you put up a person a personality that could run and win the Presidency that would not be subjected to the most extreme powers and forces to destroy him

Are you more content with the completely fake Biden show an all associated with it ? What we are presently living here in the USA SUCKS.

And I have heard contrary to Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King and the likes as well.

I posted that list as a reminder of what was done, that now has pretty much been undone by this sitting shill fool .

Acturian, I agree with you, and there is far more involved than meets the eye.

[rgray222]

I really appreciate you providing that list, Doug. In the past, I watched friends do the same thing with every single miscreant that has been in the Oval Office. None of their misdeeds matter. None of them count. Every one of them painted to be some fantasy good guy American hero. As soon as you point out their actual deeds, the supporters race to offer excuses. They directly credit their hero with all the "good" deeds of the administration, and every bad deed is someone else's fault, something they were "forced" to do (but never admit how weak that would be and how ineffective the hero is against being solely a puppet.)


Dennis, in my mind I think you're missing the point. I believe that Trump is an important president not because of the specific things he did or did not do while in office but because he upset the well established and deeply entrenched corruption that has become a way of life by the Washington Elites.

The entire bureaucracy living and working around Washington DC is feasting off the government and they have no desire for efficiency and absolutely no desire for change. The more inefficient and bloated government becomes the more money and power they collect. They justify their existence by viewing their world as a separate entity, not part of a much larger illness that is cancerous to society. This allows plausible deniability to family, friends, society and especially to themselves. Trump forced these people to face that unpalatable reality and they handled it like a bunch of stormtroopers invading Poland. Democrats, Republicans and the shadow government (mostly intel agencies) pulled together to overthrow this American President. They were and still are unabashedly supported by their activist media. Five investigations (House, Senate, 2 Intel and Special Prosecutor) into Russian Collusion that all came up empty. One that did its best (Mueller investigation) to leave the door open so that suspicion would always be cast over President Trump. Two impeachments that started before Trump became President encompassed a five year period that ended in a complete embarrassment to the rebels and acquittal for the President. The Washington Post ran a blatant headline the day that Trump took office and before he ever sat in the oval office that boldly proclaimed;"The Campaign to Impeach President Trump has Begun." (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/20/the-campaign-to-impeach-president-trump-has-begun/)

I submit that Trump was unique and should be viewed in a light different from any other modern-day president. The discussion should not revolve around individual accomplishments or failures but around the dynamics of what made Trump so controversial and hated many and loved by many.

Trump forced the societal elites to show their hand which highlighted a revolution that was well underway before he ever took office. A revolution unlike we have ever witnessed in history, instead of the working class directing their anger upwards towards the elite it was and still is the elites directing their anger downwards towards the working class. It is the logical direction you would expect from those attempting to implement one-world government. Dividing society along racial lines is their weapon of choice. It is truly something to behold when you take a moment to understand the uniqueness and enormity of this political/polar shift.

I would vote for any man or woman that is willing to upset the status quo regardless of their personality and regardless of their political affiliation. In the short term, it may be difficult or even painful but in the long run it mght be the only way to insure the survival of society.

[thepainterdoug]

rgray222/ very insightful and I certainly agree. Trump has changed the entire world we live today. I never heard of fake news before Trump and he changed the entire playing field . He pulled the curtain back.
To the degree its extensilvely been attempted to destroy Trump by both parties tells me alot.

[scotslad]

re the list of achievements - all appear very impressive. Coming from the UK, I'm curious if this taken/copied from a government site or official source where each entry can be verified and coroborated or copied from another blog/site?

[Bruno]

I stopped coming to Project Avalon daily because of this pro-trump blindness. I check back in here every few months and I can't believe that after all this time so many here still defend things that in my mind are indefensible.

It's hard for me to understand anyone that can look past his self-serving ignorance and cruelty.

[thepainterdoug]

Bruno, then this list is incorrect? And Biden is an improvement? can you list bidens accomplishments so far?

[Bruno]

Trump's accomplishments vs Biden's accomplishments?, you are missing the point. Hitler had great accomplishments too. It's the blindness to Trump's folly I have issue with. The willingness of people here to believe to he gives a damn about common people. The blindness to his corruption.

[thepainterdoug]

Bruno my friend, well that goes with all politicians.

[Dennis Leahy]

Denis. Thanks for your counterpoint. It is a dirty disgusting world, and certainly not the world according to myself. Can you name a benevolent world leader without a laundry list of opposition, corruption and contrary comment ?
Can you put up a person a personality that could run and win the Presidency that would not be subjected to the most extreme powers and forces to destroy him

Are you more content with the completely fake Biden show an all associated with it ? What we are presently living here in the USA SUCKS.

And I have heard contrary to Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King and the likes as well.

I posted that list as a reminder of what was done, that now has pretty much been undone by this sitting shill fool .

Acturian, I agree with you, and there is far more involved than meets the eye.
Doug,

My point isn't to compare Trump to Biden nor to Hillary. My point is what Trump did do in office. The accurate history.

I've been hit with the same "purity test" accusation by Democrat friends when I pointed out what their hero was actually doing.

The US election system is completely out of the hands of the people, and is run by two political corporations. That guarantees that all high office positions in the US will be filled with the minions of those two corporations. We are never going to choose between these corporations' offerings and get someone in the US presidency that isn't a Democrat mobster or a Republican mobster, loyal to their faction and their corporate sponsors. This also leads to the incorrect conclusion that it is impossible to find anyone of high integrity for high office positions - but the truth is that the ENTIRE pool of Democrats and Republicans is rotten to the core. They are first loyal to their own political gang (serving their political party, not citizens), and loyal to their corporate sponsors. So, there is 100% certainty that the citizens of the US will not have representation, but the corporations within the Global Corporate Network will have full representation.

When US citizens take over the entire election system, eliminate all political parties, make all offices single term, and prevent those who are connected to the Global Corporate Network from even running for office, then US citizens will finally have representation in governance. In a government composed of politically independent representatives of the citizens, representatives without ties to the Global Corporate Network and without personal/career financial incentives from the GCN, then finally we will see individuals of high moral fiber and high integrity in high office positions.

I nominate Doug Auld for US president. Would you have destroyed Julian Assange? No. I'm betting that there is nothing that anyone could have done to pressure you to cause or acquiesce to Julian Assange's rendition and torture and imprisonment for publishing truth about war crimes. Trump did. He either bowed to pressure (so he is weak and ineffective and spineless) or he spearheaded the operation to destroy the publisher that was publishing US war crimes and illegal and immoral high crimes of the financial elite (who are heads of the GCN.)

[raregem]

I stopped coming to Project Avalon daily because of this pro-trump blindness. I check back in here every few months and I can't believe that after all this time so many here still defend things that in my mind are indefensible.

It's hard for me to understand anyone that can look past his self-serving ignorance and cruelty.

@Bruno- The type of statement you made here is the very reason I pulled back writing on PA 5 years ago. It is name calling at best and has no backing to make your point for your outlook.
There was extreme aggression- I had experienced in person- when Trump began his campaign for President. I shut down . I did not get a sense of non-aggression on PA either during this time. I was seeking reasoning and discussion -not accusations/name calling as I feel this is closed minded. Too much energy required while being run over- so to speak. I am speaking now. Thank you.
I think Trump has a strong sense of self, accomplishments in business and arrogant. My opinion only. I choose to give him the time of day and pay attention to his politics because he definitely changed the economy for the world and our nation. Had HC been elected- then what? Well, I believe we are seeing it play out in 2021 very strongly. What a crazy ride!
I try to see what is hidden but really- I am just guessing as most of us are. I am watching so many people act out from fear instead of doing deeper research. They are still too angry to listen with an open mind.

P.S. I have had a good deal of experience from within the political arena. Watching and listening to the"game". Both good and deceptive.

[thepainterdoug]

Dennis. it think now you are more accurately describing the issue. And for this I am in 100% in agreement with you. I cannot stand this Assange situation and am disgusted with it. I am also disgutsted with his vaxx stance.

So how do we disregard all else in the light of this?

And Dennis, dont insult me with saying Doug for president. I posted a compilation of trump accomplishments. Thats it.

Should Martin Luther King be 100% dismissed, void and nullified as crap for having an affair?

Give me a political favorite of yours, and Ill help find what stinks about him as well.

Go Biden!

[Dreamer148]

I stopped coming to Project Avalon daily because of this pro-trump blindness. I check back in here every few months and I can't believe that after all this time so many here still defend things that in my mind are indefensible.

It's hard for me to understand anyone that can look past his self-serving ignorance and cruelty.

Obama came into the Presidency with nothing and now is an extremely wealthy man. Trump lost billions during his years as president.

How does that sit with your claims?

After doing so much for the American people to now supporting the poisonous "vaccines" is a mystery to most of us.

BTW: Just heard that Bezos recently gave the Obama Foundation $100 million. Obama is not exactly living hand to mouth, so why would he do that?

[Dennis Leahy]

I really appreciate you providing that list, Doug. In the past, I watched friends do the same thing with every single miscreant that has been in the Oval Office. None of their misdeeds matter. None of them count. Every one of them painted to be some fantasy good guy American hero. As soon as you point out their actual deeds, the supporters race to offer excuses. They directly credit their hero with all the "good" deeds of the administration, and every bad deed is someone else's fault, something they were "forced" to do (but never admit how weak that would be and how ineffective the hero is against being solely a puppet.)


Dennis, in my mind I think you're missing the point. I believe that Trump is an important president not because of the specific things he did or did not do while in office but because he upset the well established and deeply entrenched corruption that has become a way of life by the Washington Elites. ...

I don't think I'm missing the point. What you are offering is just nebulous opinion. Use facts. If you want to show that I am wrong in my assessment of Trump, please at least face what he actually did, head-on. Debate the points I brought up regarding Trump's ACTUAL ACTIONS, starting with Assange.

"...he upset the well established and deeply entrenched corruption...", no he didn't, but Assange did and Trump took him out for doing it.

"Dividing society along racial lines is their weapon of choice." Um, I don't think you want to go there to defend Trump.

[Dennis Leahy]

Dennis. it think now you are more accurately describing the issue. And for this I am in 100% in agreement with you. I cannot stand this Assange situation and am disgusted with it. I am also disgutsted with his vaxx stance.

So how do we disregard all else in the light of this?

And Dennis, dont insult me with saying Doug for president. I posted a compilation of trump accomplishments. Thats it.

Should Martin Luther King be 100% dismissed, void and nullified as crap for having an affair?

Give me a political favorite of yours, and Ill help find what stinks about him as well.

Go Biden!
Doug, I don't have a "political favorite." None. I would never ever ever vote for a Democrat or Republican (the only political parties that gain high office positions, due to controlling the election system), and so I'll never vote again. I have spent thousands of hours researching and trying to figure out how the citizens of the US could possibly get to a position where US citizens are represented and corporations (and the military-intelligence-spy complex) aren't - and it will NOT be through participating in the demo-republican election system.

F*** Biden. F*** Trump. F*** every one of 'em.

[pyrangello]

Once and a while it comes up about Biden with some of my friends, whenever I ask which is rare why did you vote for Biden with the only rule you can't use the word trump or anything to do with trump as your answer, its very interesting to see the answers based on bidens accomplishment's of 47 years in office and what he did. Many didn't know what to say or where to go.

Could Trump have been more polished in his words, sure. But what we never saw was what was happening behind the scenes to prompt Trump to say anything and in Washington DC , ruining peoples careers is considered sport, heck even the media went after trumps son one time and then melania stepped in . And the media is just as culpable to dissect sound bites making his statements seem appalling to the best of their ability. They did the same to Melania.

I liked Jimmy Carter, what a statesman he has become, Even Clinton I think did a good job in my opinion. Obama and his fundamentally transform America ? He tried, don't know what was wrong with America to begin with. At the end of the day if we removed Trump from the time he was in office to just a man with accomplishments, This man was about putting control back into the hands of the people and the states as it should be. I got use to $2.00 a gallon gas for 4 years, no major wars, and an economy where all were moving forward. I could live like that forever.

And where did build back better come from ? It should be build in reverse as to whats happening now.

Just an fyi, I'm an independent, was a campaign manager for an independent one time. Boy that was interesting, oh the events I could tell you. I just vote for whoever I think will do the best job , period.

[thepainterdoug]

Deniss

I completely agree with you, however, where does that leave us? i hate them all because I know the process is a fallacy. But now what?

Ships tend to need a captain. Some are better than others, but what would make someone want to be a captain in the first place?

I have said many times in my posts, its the human being itself thats the problem.

I will end my participation in this post now. It wont change a thing

[Mike]

I stopped coming to Project Avalon daily because of this pro-trump blindness. I check back in here every few months and I can't believe that after all this time so many here still defend things that in my mind are indefensible.

It's hard for me to understand anyone that can look past his self-serving ignorance and cruelty.


What things are indefensible? Be specific.

You've mostly made a caricature of the position many have taken here re Trump. It's inaccurate, far as I can tell. It's like saying most people here are right wing nationalists, when in reality most people here are libertarians.

The feeling about Trump, in a nutshell, among those who offer support here, is that he is far from a perfect man but is currently the best man for the job. That's far from worship.

If this offends you, you have ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN and pretty much every other tentacle of our legacy media to go listen to.

Outside of FOX, it's small niche places like this that are at least allowed to say favorable things about Trump. Would you rather no one say anything positive about the man, ever? Because if we don't, who will? Pretty much nobody, that's who. So if people here act a little defensively about the man, that's likely why. There are some perfectly legitimate reasons for "Trump derangement syndrome" (see Dennis' posts in this thread) but there are also some histrionic lunatic reasons. We aim to expose them; that's not "Trump blindness"

[jaybee]

Although I'm not American I'd just like to chip in -

This is how I see it - Trump was not supposed to win in 2016 but he somehow beat the vote rigging by having many MANY more votes than expected - that triggered probably the biggest Global PSYOP against an American President the world has ever seen - this was the backdrop he had to work with from the moment he took office - Presidents are at a disadvantage anyway because while their term of office is 4 - 8 years - everyone else has decades to build up power and corruption - and if a President won't do as he's told by the Deep State he meets with trouble - serious trouble - just ask the ghost of JFK -

The PSYOP was so successful and the MSM so dirty 24/7 he was handicapped with an enormous weight holding him down - but he still managed to do a lot in spite of that - if he had had more support from the Press and consequently the People I don't think he would have done that bit of bombing in Syria (to shut the military up) and he would probably have done something about Assange -

The PSYOP against him was built around the Russia accusations and those determined to curtail him at every step had linked Assange to Russia as an integral part of the whole thing - I feel like Trumps hands were kind of tied - which is a heart breaker because what's happening to Assange is totally unacceptable and cruel...

The Trump PSYOP was the warm up for the Covid PSYOP... a primer

Oh and the vaccines - that's disappointing how they got him to start the whole thing off and how he went along with it - probably because he thought they were safe and it would allow the economy to stay strong because that was his big thing - remember how the MSM stoked up hysteria when he talked about hydroxychloroquine - even now loads of people still think he told people to drink bleach - Trump was so focused on the economy I think he underestimated the New World Order flexing it's muscles ready to go up a few notches in their bid for complete domination -

[Dennis Leahy]

... There are some perfectly legitimate reasons for "Trump derangement syndrome" (see Dennis' posts in this thread) but there are also some histrionic lunatic reasons....
I have witnessed Trump derangement syndrome in person. (An extended family member, a highly credentialed scientist with plenty of articulate articles and scientific whitepapers to his credit.) He is, in my estimation, a fully indoctrinated Democrat. When the word "Trump" was spoken, he literally could not form a sentence, but instead shat out nearly incomprehensible phrase fragments and guttural sounds. I suspect he is incapable of listing Trump's actual mammoth misdeeds as president, and is completely unaware of Trumps deeds that mirror the current or past Democrat presidents deeds. (If Trump did it, it's bad; if Obama or Biden did the same thing, it's OK and not mentioned.)

Caitlin Johnstone did an article where she mentioned that some Democrats will never get over Trump, the person. It appears to me that some Trump supporters will never look at Trump's actual misdeeds while in office. Heck, it's only human to make mistakes... like destroying Julian Assange for the elite overlords, bombing Syria for Israel, and keeping all the modern US wars going (using starvation sanctions rather than missiles) for the CIA/DeepState/US military/military industrial complex corporations. (A lot of Democrats and Republicans have absolutely no problem with US imperialism and war - so killing a few million people somewhere else is no big deal, as long as the US gasoline prices stay around $2 a gallon. So, its not just Trump supporters that are guilty of supporting imperialism and war.)

The Deep State, along with the mass corporate media that they control (a la "Mockingbird") have done a fantastic job of characterizing Assange as a bad guy rather than someone exposing the bad guys. Maybe that's why some Avalon members cannot see the gravity of Trump's actions in destroying Julian Assange and Wikileaks. Donald Trump wanted to kill Julian Assange (and nearly has.) Trump got Assange imprisoned, shut him up, stopped Wikileaks from exposing more of the crimes of the US government and the financial elite (of which Trump is a member.) Trump didn't destroy Julian Assange for the citizens of the world. This act isn't in the realm of "nobody's perfect"; this is an enormous criminal act supporting the global elite.

By not admitting the grave misdeeds done by any president while in office, and instead simply highlighting administration accomplishments, a ridiculous fantasy picture is painted.

[Mike]

Hey Dennis, I think what's going on with Assange is absolutely egregious. So I couldn't agree with you more there.

And btw, I don't think you are suffering from "Trump Derangement Syndrome". My writing was a little clumsy there. It looks like I'm conflating 2 separate things. My bad. I think some of your criticisms are totally legitimate, as I said in my previous post.

When I'm making arguments for Trump, I'm making them relative to past presidents and the current one, not to an idyllic future where political parties are obsolete and lobbyists and corporations don't have their sticky fingers in the cookie jar. Like you I'm very fond of that sort of future, but I don't allow myself to get lost in it very often. Maybe I should!

Ultimately I don't think the Republicans or the Democrats are the answer; I don't think either will guide us to the promise land..wherever that is. I don't think Trump is a savior. But I think there is a very real resistance operating within the current matrix and I actively root for them. And as verbally clumsy and silly as he often is, I think Trump is part of that resistance. But he is a messy man living in a messy world, and from where we're sitting we can't always see all the tangled webs a man in his position has to grapple with. The world and her politics are a delicate deck of cards, and what may seem like an obviously bad or good choice to us may just be the opposite.

Has anyone ever asked him directly about Assange? I'd like to hear his explanation for his treatment of the man.

I'd much prefer Trump to Biden, or Hillary, or (fill in the blank) because I like the idea of energy independence; I like gas prices when they're not bankrupting me; I like secure borders; I like that he was actively against (and effectively fighting) the deep state social engineering project that's brought us CRT, sexual distortion, social Marxism etc; I like that he's strongly against vaccine mandates. I could go on and on. Point is, as much as a deep state puppet as he may or may not be, he was able to make meaningful (and would have continued to make meaningful) changes that effect the lives of everyday Americans (Like me!)

[thepainterdoug]

Mike i view past presidents in comparison as well. No one knows anything about what that position demands and the forces surrounding them
I also believe Trump would not have enforced these insane mandates regardless of his warp speed crap. Dr Zelenko would have advised him, in my opinion.

[Mike]

Mike i view past presidents in comparison as well. No one knows anything about what that position demands and the forces surrounding them
I also believe Trump would not have enforced these insane mandates regardless of his warp speed crap. Dr Zelenko would have advised him, in my opinion.

Hi Doug, For what it's worth, I saw Trump in an interview recently saying he was against the mandates. And I believe him. I don't think for a second he'd require any kind of vax mandates if he were president.

[PurpleLama]

Mike i view past presidents in comparison as well. No one knows anything about what that position demands and the forces surrounding them
I also believe Trump would not have enforced these insane mandates regardless of his warp speed crap. Dr Zelenko would have advised him, in my opinion.

Hi Doug, For what it's worth, I saw Trump in an interview recently saying he was against the mandates. And I believe him. I don't think for a second he'd require any kind of vax mandates if he were president.

To be fair, we got mandates to take eyes off the debacle of the Afghanistan withdrawl, and it worked.

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The best thing about Trump was the worst thing, he was politically incompotent.

[amor]

Thanks to all of you debating above. I am in significant ignorance about a lot of the news mentioned by Denis and Doug and thought it might be helpful for me to throw in something that others may share with me in that there is significant confusion being created, at least on the internet, about what Trump is or is not doing. All the news about Biden being a man in a mask, etc., and then Trump taking actions which would seem to benefit the Deep State and not the people. I swore not to buy a newspaper or put a cent in the Deep State's pocket by buying their lies. A form of magic I guess.

There was news that Hillary had been tried and shot and so had Obama one day, and the next day one is partying and the other is talking. This seems to be a deliberate campaign to confuse the people to the end that THEY will WINN and the people lose.

There is the story in Revelations (the Bible) about this wonderful businessman who wins the praises of the world, is killed by Satan then resurrected as possessed by Satan and goes on to install himself in the Jerusalem Temple as God. I do not have a Bible here with me, but I believe the advent of Armageddon takes place. I wondered whether this was Trump and whether when he had his facelift they did something to him to control his mind (a death of the original Trump).

Then there is all this talk about Q and the return of John Kennedy. There is plenty of room to wonder whether we are all being played by the real Deep State on one hand and being Genocided on the other.

The last comment I read was that Dr. Charlie Ward who is championing Trump is actually working for MI6, which would put Trump in THEIR, Rothschild's, Camp, business loans to Trump and all. That would mean that we poor folks are being played both sides against the middle. I also agree that the Assange business looks very bad, as did that of Shawn David Morton (Project Camelot) who could have been pardoned by Trump, Or was he?. Also, where is this NEW Trump Internet Site?

Any thoughts on all this confusion???

[Arcturian108]

There are so many Trump threads that I didn't know where to put the following article written by Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator recently titled: "On Trump, Kanye, Biscuit, Jews, and Dinners"

I begin with certain definitions:

1. The Jew-hater formerly known as Kanye West now prefers to be called “Ye.” Therefore, for the duration of this article, I shall call him “Kanye.”

2. The White Supremacist, Holocaust-mocking Jew-hater who was ancillary to the unfortunate dinner at Mar-a-Lago has compared Jews murdered in the death camps to baked cookies. Therefore, for the duration of this article, I shall call him by the name “Biscuit.”

3. Donald John Trump is a Philosemite. You don’t hear that term often because not so many people, other than Bible Christians who believe that Genesis 12:3 is the Word of G-d, love Jews. But that’s what a Philosemite is: he or she loves Jews, even despite certain Jews (just as I do). “And I shall bless them that bless thee, and he that curseth thee shall I curse; and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.”

Now to business:

I do not know why Donald Trump loves Jews. Maybe because more than 90 percent of Orthodox Jews voted for him against both Hillary and Joe Biden. Maybe because his daughter is an Orthodox Jew. Maybe because Jared Kushner, his son-in-law whom he loves and trusts, is an Orthodox Jew. Maybe because Trump’s grandchildren are Orthodox Jews who observe the Shabbat according to its laws, eat strictly kosher, and attend yeshiva Jewish parochial school. Or — my personal theory — maybe because his father, Fred, who was one of the great Philosemites of the prior generation and who even donated property to a Jewish congregation for them to have a synagogue, taught young Donald that part of the Trump Family Legacy is to love Jews.

When others refused to hire Jews, Trump did. (1) He opened the restricted Mar-a-Lago private club to Blacks and Jews when he bought it. (2) He surrounded himself with honorable Jewish legal scholars and attorneys like David Friedman and Jason Greenblatt, and even a bum named Michael Cohen, whose kid’s bar mitzvah he attended. In Israel, Trump would be elected prime minister by a landslide. After nearly half a century of broken promises by other American presidents, (3) Trump formally declared and America recognized United Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. (4) He moved America’s Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. (5) He recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. (6) He recognized the permanent legality of all Jewish communities and cities (ridiculously called “settlements”) in Judea and Samaria (falsely called the “West Bank”) as legal in all situations that Israel’s own courts regard them as legal. (7) He cut off hundreds of millions of dollars’ funding for the Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) illegal government in the Palestine Authority on grounds that they pay monthly stipends (“Pay to Slay”) to families of Arab terrorists who murder Jews or otherwise perpetrate acts of terror. (8) He closed down the Palestine Liberation Organization office in Washington, D.C., (9) closed down America’s long-standing “Palestine” consulate in Jerusalem, (10) pulled the United States out of the anti-Semitic U.N. Human Rights Council, (11) cut off $300 million in funding that America had been sending to the Jew-hating UNRWA, a Jew-hating United Nations agency that runs schools in places like Gaza where Arab Muslim children are taught to hate Jews and to murder Jews; (12) appointed a U.N. ambassador, Nikki Haley, who warned anti-Israel countries that “We’re taking down names”; (13) commuted the anti-Semitic Iowa prison sentence of Sholom Rubashkin, (14) almost unilaterally brought about the Abraham Accords that induced several leading Arab Muslim countries for the first time to enter into true peace agreements with Israel without Israel ceding an inch of Jewish territory in Judea and Samaria. (15) His Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, endorsed yeshiva education during visits to two yeshivas in a New York City trip while skipping visiting the city’s public schools. Moreover, (16) Trump issued an executive order on combating anti-Semitism to enhance enforcement of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, to protect Jewish college students from the overt Jew-hatred now rampant on so many American campuses, and (17) he named Kenneth Marcus as Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the Department of Education to investigate anti-Semitic episodes at campuses like Rutgers in New Jersey. (18) Trump deported the last Nazi war criminal known to be hiding in America, (19) signed into law a bill making it easier for Holocaust victims to reclaim stolen property, (20) ended the disastrous Iran deal and implemented crushing sanctions against Iran, (21) signed the Taylor Force Act, (22) knocked off Qassem Soleimani, (23) rubbed out Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, (24) shattered State Department policy by authorizing Americans born in Jerusalem to list Israel on their American passports as their country of birth, (25) imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court for unfairly and illegally investigating Israel, and (26) said at his 2019 State of the Union address “We must never ignore the vile poison of anti-Semitism or those who spread its venomous creed. With one voice, we must confront this hatred anywhere and everywhere it occurs.”

That is the definition of a lifelong Philosemite. Copy and paste the above paragraph, and email it or post it or re-tweet it to anyone who does not already know that Trump and his father were and are lifelong Philosemites, friends and admirers of Jews. Not to mention Ivanka and his grandkids.

But the left-wing news media say otherwise? Since when can we trust ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, and the Washington Post? The New York Times, run by self-hating Jews who lean over backward to prove they are “neutral” on Jewish matters, covered up the Holocaust (as they did the Holodomor) and opposed the creation of Israel. This is documented all over the place.

When Trump first sought the Republican nomination for president in 2016, the media fell over themselves trying to prove Trump anti-Jewish. They found an Absolute Nobody, an activist for homosexual rights in New Jersey who very briefly was spokesman for an insignificant group named for the very significant Anne Frank, to go on CNN and other TV stations and be quoted in the New York Times for equating Trump with anti-Semitism. They twisted every possible Trump quote and gesture to have hidden meanings that only they could divine. It was like their obscene equating of Laura Ingraham with Nazism by showing a photo of her waving to an audience at the 2016 Republican convention, capturing a split second of the wave to make it look like a “Sieg Heil” Hitler salute.

It is a game of “Gotcha!” You say you are not an anti-Semite, so we will hire people whose job description will be to follow you, investigate you, and magnify-glass you until they can find their proof. And then, ah blessed Charlottesville! Take a pin-pointed picture of despicable White Supremacists and neo-Nazi-wannabes amid a hugely larger crowd of demonstrators seeking to deter the tearing down of historic monuments dedicated to heroes who fought for Virginia a century earlier, then catch Trump saying there were good people on both sides — because there were — and … Gotcha! Just a bit of editing and clipping, and it can be distorted to seem he was saying the Nazis were the good people to whom he was referring.

Lies. Damned lies. And more damned lies.

OK. So, uh, what was that quiet private Mar-a-Lago dinner with Kanye and Biscuit about?

I begin with a verse from First Samuel 15:17 when the prophet Shmuel (Samuel) confronted King Sha’ul (Saul) for not having fulfilled G-d’s command to eradicate the Amalekites. Sha’ul explained that he spared certain sheep, cattle, and Amalekite King Agag to accommodate the demands of the common people, and Shmuel said to him: “Although you may be insignificant in your own eyes, you are the head of the tribes of Israel, and G-d anointed you to be king of Israel.” In other words, your exalted position does not afford you the luxury to show compassion and sensitivity to embodiments of evil. If you wanted that flexibility to dine with Agag over Amalekite filet mignon and lamb chops, you should have stuck to building hotels and skating rinks in Bethlehem and Ḥevron, and golf courses and casinos in Shiloh and Bethel. But you became King of Israel. That changed your rules of engagement, whether you like it or not.

I understand why Trump agreed to meet with Kanye. Trump is running for President in 2024, and he benefits by maintaining an open line of communication with that mental case because Kanye potentially might split off votes from some Black Trump voters. But, if he had to meet with Kanye, Trump should have done it by inviting Kanye to a mano a mano working lunch in his private office behind closed doors. Frankly, since Kanye is a certified nut — a meshuggeneh — the better part of wisdom would have been (and would be, going forward) to steer clear of Kanye, and let him further self-destruct over the next two years until he hangs himself with laces from a pair of Yeezy sneakers.

Just sayin’.

In any event, Trump should not be meeting with the likes of Biscuit. I believe Trump a million percent when he says he didn’t know Biscuit or what that oddball stands for or against. I believe it because one of the most worldly and well-informed colleagues in my inner orbit of rabbinic leaders recently wrote me, off the record, to ask me whether I ever had heard of Biscuit and, if so, could I fill him in on who the fool is. So I did.

If that rabbi, a leading expert on identifying and responding to American anti-Semitism, never had heard of Biscuit, it is totally believable Trump did not either. Moreover, I ask myself (as every human being, and also every “Gotcha!” journalist, should): If I invite John Doe, whom I already know, to dinner, and Doe unexpectedly shows up with a guy he identifies as his friend Richard Roe — and it all catches me by surprise — what in the world am I realistically expected to do? Throw out the guy? I don’t even know who he is. No, I have to grit my teeth, maybe utter some imprecations under my breath, and then smile and ask the waiter to set up another place setting.

I challenge any other person, under oath and on a lie detector, to say he or she would do otherwise. I have seen uninvited people show up at family Thanksgiving dinners, brought by moronic family members who never thought to ask first. No one throws out such people. Rather, you set up an extra place setting, and next year you do not invite the family moron either. That was Trump’s dilemma with Biscuit.

Where Trump runs into trouble here is in two ways:

1. He has so much self-confidence in his own judgment and smarts, and so much distrust of others’ advice, that he leaves himself bereft of insightful advisors whom he truly can trust. For example, he trusted Paul Ryan on budgeting to build the wall, and look what happened. He trusted Rex Tillerson on foreign policy and “Mad Dog” on defense, and look where that got him. And that screwy Omarosa. Nevertheless, he needs to understand that, as President who was and who seeks to be again, he needs two or three people to advise him, to vet interlopers. I am not available because I am recovering from a lung transplant. My dear friend, Steve, would be great, but he recently moved to Israel. Ted Cruz is busy in the Senate watching McConnell, DeSantis is busy coloring Florida red and kicking the mouse’s patoot(ie) out of whoever now is running Disney. Maybe Mike Huckabee. Or my TAS colleague Jeffrey Lord. Or Ben Stein, another TAS colleague. Or Wlady. I also would love to see Steve Bannon back. But Trump needs a second opinion, just as we all do when we go to a doctor for a second opinion after we get a diagnosis (and the doctor says: “You want a second opinion? OK. You are ugly, too”). Had I been there, I would have told Trump: “Kanye is seriously mentally disturbed; just ask Taylor Swift. You cannot make a deal with him or even trust what he will tweet about a meeting. Stay away from him, or at least limit your time to a 15-minute closed-door working lunch. Bring plenty of hand sanitizer, and have a food taster present before you bite.” Then, when Biscuit showed up, I would have been at the next room or table and would have escorted Biscuit to my table — to get him away from Trump — if I did not recognize him. No way would I let him near my president without proper vetting. This is not voting in Arizona. Like, howzabout some I.D.? And since I would happen to be a good advisor, I would recognize Biscuit by name if not by face and have him escorted out of the building pronto. As a friendly gesture, I would give him a kosher-certified cookie on the way out, certified by Israel’s new Minister of Internal Security, the Hon. Itamar Ben-Gvir, every neo-Nazi-wannabe’s cookie monster.

2. Trump believes, as a guiding principle of business success, that he must never publicly apologize or acknowledge a possible misstep. This guiding principle is what Shakespeare professors call a “tragic flaw.” I remember an episode of The Apprentice where Trump unloaded a “You’re Fired!” on a guy who decently volunteered to share blame with someone else. Trump busted him because he believes a successful executive never sticks out his neck to acknowledge partial fault. This belief is tragic. For example, all he had to do after the Kanye-Biscuit dinner brouhaha was to tweet as follows:

“I despise anti-Semitism, and I despise anti-Semites. I told Kanye that, when he attacks Jews, he is attacking my Ivanka and my grandchildren, so he is attacking me. Either he retreats publicly — and fast — or he is permanently out of my orbit. I am disgusted to learn who [Biscuit] is and what [Biscuit] has said about the Holocaust and about Jews like my grandchildren. I am disgusted that Kanye associates with [Biscuit]. I have given orders today to have [Biscuit’s] photo posted in all my buildings because he is to be thrown out immediately if he ever shows up at any hotel, casino, or golf course of mine. And I will immediately fire any manager of a Trump property who fails to throw [Biscuit] out on his rump.”

That’s all Trump needs:

1. To have two or three trusted advisors he can consult when sticky situations arise;

2. The ability to acknowledge a misstep rapidly, without enabling his “Gotcha!” haters to pile on for days and weeks;

3. The gumption to tweet a no-holds-barred 128-word tweet like the one above.

If only. Sad.

[ozmirage]

Since 1933, no president is worthy of praise or respect.
Why?
The State of Emergency, declared in 1933, by "saint" FDR has been in force and effect for +89 years. And no president, partisanship notwithstanding, has dared to END IT.
No matter what the (m)ass media promulgates, and what opinions it has molded, until that emergency is ended, the USA is kaput.
Look around - masked, anonymous black garbed "SWAT" officers kicking in doors, and even throwing grenades into baby cribs. No constitutional money ("gold & silver coin"). No private property, that cannot be taken without 'just compensation' (in gold & silver coin).


From the Communist manifesto:
"In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of PRIVATE PROPERTY."