Didn't repeal Obamacare.
Hasn't secured funding for the wall.
Has yet to get his budget passed.
Showed a lack of diplomacy with foreign leaders.
Didn't even authorize Afghanistan, that was signed off by an Obama appointed general.
Those are just some of the things.
Oh look! Another liberal shill n00b.
Hmm, that looks familiar, where have I seen that before?
Oh yeah:
Communism isn't coming anytime soon in America, commie lemming.
Trump's working more than I've seen any other president work in my lifetime.
I approve of the job he's doing.
Trump's working more than I've seen any other president work in my lifetime.
Really? I can't lie. I've seen more of Trump on the golf course, especially on the weekends, than I have anywhere else since he took office. That, and we've got two active military conflicts going on, what's turning into either a standoff or a pissing match in the Pacific, a health insurance policy that the man's long derided and for which he all but abdicated his responsibility to submit a specific proposal to Congress for revising it, and a "ton" of items he committed -- and unprompted by anyone else -- to having accomplished in his first 100 days and that remain incomplete.
And as goes health insurance/O-care,
coming up with a bipartisan health-care bill is something Trump said would be easy...It's apparently so easy he's not had his staff coordinate with Democrats to write a draft one and send it to Congress. Nevermind that after taking office, he remarked, "nobody knew that health care could be so complicated.” That's only so if "nobody" is a pseudonym for "Donald Trump."
And what about things that should indeed be "slam dunks" for a former business executive come GOP president having a GOP run Senate? How about merely availing oneself of the "low hanging" fruit that allows one to appear to have "hit the ground running" and is prepared to govern? What "fruit" might that be? Filling the appointed positions in his Administration. As of Feb 21st, there were ~550 such positions and Trump had filled four.
How much progress has he made on that front? (
There are a total of about 2,000 positions presidents fill by appointment, though only about a quarter of them require Senate confirmation.)
As a point of comparison, Obama who, like Trump, had the benefit of having his party control the House and Senate, had approximately 25 appointments filled. And just so you get some sense of things, Trump could have on November 10th, tasked a small team of four junior members of his team to identify and vette people for myriad positions and then submit a summary "status report" and CV for each approved individual to Trump or one of his senior aides for approval -- approval to reach out to the individuals or approval to actually nominate them if the "vetters" took the initiative to contact them before hand -- whether they started at the bottom and worked their way up or the other way around.
I mean really. That was a super easy "peach" to grab seeing as for the thousand-plus non-confirmation positions, all that's really needed are people who are reasonably decent at managing themselves and a small cadre of "direct reports," collaborating with others, and being something of an "expert" -- by education, experience, or a combination of both, but not necessarily world renowned PhDs or something -- in the area to which they'd be appointed.
How "expert" need such people be? Well, when I was in my mid-20s to mid-30s, just about everyone in my peer group whom I knew well enough to have their phone number, and who wasn't a private sector colleague, was appointed to some role in the government. They were seen as expert enough at something to have been asked to speak at a middle school graduation or a high school seminar of some sort. Some of them had been panelists at public policy symposia and/or lectures held by low and middle-tier non-profits and think tanks. Some had clerked for a federal judge and one for a "Supreme." In other words, very knowledgeable, but certainly not "the" leading authority and thought leader in their field.
What would have been the benefit of filling those "easy" positions? As I said, it creates a tone of seriousness and readiness to govern. That's something that Trump, given his absolute lack of government experience, needs. And it quickly gets the vacancy numbers low so that it's one less thing for critics, rightly so, to cite as being indicative of Trump's ineptitude and unpreparedness -- even on a basic operations management level -- for the job he won.
By far the best way to silence one's critics is to deliver results in line with the expectations oneself set by making attestations of one's abilities and making promises about what one would accomplish and when. When one doesn't follow through on such statements, the answer to the question "who knew...." is clear. Your critics knew, they knew you did not know, and for your own good, they told you so and what to do about it. The next question, then, is did you take heed of their input?
When one is out of one's depth, so long as one has enough integrity and intelligence to admit to oneself that one is so positioned, listening to one's critics, at least until one gets one's head above water and is able to proceed unaided, is one's best course of action.
