When asked about this President in Presidential terms, and leaving personal feeling aside, just what exactly don't you think he is doing for you. Just name a couple, I don't see the need for a bash fest.
I could turn that around and ask what you think he's done for you and/or the country that is so great?
As far as I can tell, he is doing little if anything "for me", but on a larger scale he has done (and is doing) much to hurt this country and that is probably a bigger deal.
- He's done nothing to improve the various divides that exist in American society. In fact, his rhetoric has made things worse, hate crimes are increasing for example. People cannot even have civilized discussions of political topics anymore. Anyone who questions or criticizes our "dear leader" is labeled anti-American.
- His "the media is the enemy" rhetoric is extremely dangerous and frankly, un-American.
- "Drain the swamp" - nice mantra, but he's done something that I didn't think was possible - he's actually brought in a collection of inept and corrupt individuals who have made the swamp worse than it was.
- Where's the commitment to infrastructure improvement? This country is crumbling and instead he is trying to spend billions to build a wall that will not work (ever hear of tunnels?) He had 2 years with a republican congress and, well...what did the great deal maker accomplish?
- He's made America a laughingstock in the eyes of the world (just look at some of the comments we get from Europeans, Australians, etc on this forum). We were already on the track toward being followers instead of leaders and he has accelerated that process. His child-like twitter rants are something that I never expected to see from a president of the United States.
- Tax reform - lowered taxes on the higher income people and corporations. Corporations were supposed to reinvest that in jobs but instead they have bought back their stock (as many predicted). This has artificially propped up the stock market which is good for some but mainly those who already have money. The financial divide continues to grow.
- Speaking of taxes...my taxes certainly didn't go down this year, in fact they went up slightly.
- Deficit continues to grow as someone else noted. We will pay for this down the road.
Just to show I can look at things from both sides, here are a couple of positives
- His assertion that NATO members should pay more for their defense is something I agree with.
- He's single-handedly made late night TV funny again.
