In following up with this OP I put up, I ran into this additional information about Trump. This information is from FactCheck.org, which is an organization put up to give the factual information about what presidents have done.
The information below gives BOTH the good things and bad things he did but if you check out the list, you will find more bad than good and something that surprised me a bit, some of the things he said that he did that were good, were not good.............meaning he has been lying about them the past 4 years. I also want to point out again (as I did in the original OP) that several of the promises he vowed to do, he failed at in a big way.
Like I said in the OP, this is an incompetent man.
Here is the list: The negatives are bolded
Statistical indicators of President Trump's four years in office.
By
Eugene Kiely,
Brooks Jackson,
Brea Jones,
D'Angelo Gore,
Lori Robertson and
Robert Farley
Posted on October 8, 2021 |
Updated on July 26, 2024
Summary
The statistics for the entirety of Donald Trump’s time in office are nearly all compiled. As we did for his predecessor four years ago, we present a final look at the numbers.
- The economy lost 2.7 million jobs. The unemployment rate increased by 1.7 percentage points to 6.4%.
- Paychecks grew faster than inflation. Average weekly earnings for all workers were up 8.4% after inflation.
- After-tax corporate profits went up, and the stock market set new records. The S&P 500 index rose 67.8%.
- The international trade deficit Trump promised to reduce went up. The U.S. trade deficit in goods and services in 2020 was the highest since 2008 and increased 36.3% from 2016.
- The number of people lacking health insurance rose by 3 million.
- The federal debt held by the public went up, from $14.4 trillion to $21.6 trillion.
- Home prices rose 27.5%, and the homeownership rate increased 2.1 percentage points to 65.8%.
- Illegal immigration increased. Apprehensions at the Southwest border rose 14.7% last year compared with 2016.
- Coal production declined 26.5%, and coal-mining jobs dropped by 25%. Carbon emissions from energy consumption dropped 11.3%.
- Handgun production rose 12.5% last year compared with 2016, setting a new record.
- The murder rate last year rose to the highest level since 1997.
- Trump filled one-third of the Supreme Court, nearly 30% of the appellate court seats and a quarter of District Court seats.
Some data points appeared to weather the economic impact: After-tax corporate profits and
crude oil production rose, and the stock market, after taking an initial hit, continued to set records. Other statistics run counter to claims or promises Trump made: For instance, illegal immigration, the trade deficit and the federal debt — measures he vowed to lower — went up instead, rising even before the 2020 global pandemic began.
As we’ve often said, readers may find these statistics to be good, bad or neutral, and opinions differ on how much credit or blame a president should get for what happens while he is in office. We leave those judgments to others.
Update, July 26, 2024: We updated this story to reflect BEA revisions to the real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product and trade deficit numbers; BLS revisions to inflation, wages and employment data; EIA revisions to oil production and emissions figures; and revised government data on food stamp enrollment. We also revised the main chart to reflect the updated figures.