Will the Verdict of History Be that Trump Stinks?

A better question that each and every person should ask themselves...
How will you be judged by history?
Megalomania might trigger such questions, but normally, it is individuals who are accorded positions of prominence who are assessed and ranked by posterity.

If my podiatrist neighbor were to spend his time pondering his place in the annals of pedal lore, I would hasten to tell him that he shall be a footnote.
 
Before his inveterate apologists flail the pom poms and proclaim the failed casino operator and faded reality-tv entertainer the greatest thing since sliced atoms, consider the historical record:

2.9 million more Americans voted against him in 2016 than for him, most consistently and relentlessly disapproved of him throughout his four years in survey after survey, and nearly 7 million more Americans opted to dispose of the impeached POTUS at their first opportunity to do so in 2020 .

His principle campaign promises - to build a "big, beautiful wall" that he would force Mexico to pay for, a replacement of 'ObamaCare' with "something terrific!" that "covers everybody!" at "less cost!", his vows to resurrect coal mining, re-establish the steel industry, and rebuild the nation's crumbling infrastructure cannot use a deadly pandemic as an excuse for none being realized, His dismissing the coronavirus as being "under control!" with "very few people with it!" who were "all getting better! They're all getting better!" did not enter the equation until his terminal year, as he lead the nation to the most infections and deaths attributed to covid-19 on earth.

Addison "Magoo" McConnell might celebrate stuffing our courts with right-wing jurists, but these are the same Trump appointees he has been savaging as of late, for scoffing at his crackpot attacks upon democracy and the will of the People.

If the U.S., in the wake of Trumpery, can defeat the raging pandemic, restore the nation's international trust and respect, recover global leadership in the existential mission to mitigate climate change (severing the Trump allegiance with pariahs Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Libya, Angola, Sudan, Yemen, and Eritrea in abstention) and, in addition, revive the spirit of the nation by refraining from surrendering to the federal government the power to confiscate the children of migrants, as well as safeguard the hopes of the hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants who are here through no fault of their own and have shown themselves to be law-abiding and have much to contribute to the nation, the retrospective view of Trumpery will be further eroded.

On the other hand, Trump has bloated the national debt, if you are a fan of that sort of thing.

RINOs of Trumpery must now undertake a relentless witch hunt for shreds of any reputed silver linings if posterity's judgement is not to be a definitive


Seriously, what do Trump's defenders celebrate as his legacy?



What the history lesson SHOULD be is that politics--especially Presidential Politics--is a profession best left to the professionals. For example, the reason the blob had so many different chiefs of staff is because he didn't know what a chief of staff was supposed to do; essentially be the general manager for the enterprise. The only reason he had a chief of staff was because other presidents in the past had one....much like his desire to have a large splashy red square type military parade; he saw other world leaders have one so he wanted one too.

I wish I were making this stuff up but you really can't overstate how much of an amateur this guy was.

Will the electorate learn the lesson? No. If Tom Hanks or Oprah were to run, they'd win. Why? Because they are popular. I think either Hanks or Oprah would know enough to know they don't know much and hire people to whom they would listen--unlike the blob who said he knew more about __________ than the experts.

Its like the olympics used to be. East Germany, Russia, and other soviet bloc nations were sending their "amateur" athletes who were, in point and fact, experienced international competitors. We were sending college kids. Then, one day, we decided to send our professionals to compete as well and as a result (with the exception of Ice Hockey) we pretty much dominated baseball and basketball. So much so, as if I remember correctly, they no longer even have baseball in the Olympics. My point is that when you're competing against other nations, send your best. I'm sure he framers thought that it should be just ordinary people temporarily elevating to government office for a short period of time and then moving on. Professional politicians were not conceived of. Today, it's silly to think that your dentist or brewer or divorce lawyer even would make a good congressman or senator; much less a president.
 
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Before his inveterate apologists flail the pom poms and proclaim the failed casino operator and faded reality-tv entertainer the greatest thing since sliced atoms, consider the historical record:

2.9 million more Americans voted against him in 2016 than for him, most consistently and relentlessly disapproved of him throughout his four years in survey after survey, and nearly 7 million more Americans opted to dispose of the impeached POTUS at their first opportunity to do so in 2020 .

His principle campaign promises - to build a "big, beautiful wall" that he would force Mexico to pay for, a replacement of 'ObamaCare' with "something terrific!" that "covers everybody!" at "less cost!", his vows to resurrect coal mining, re-establish the steel industry, and rebuild the nation's crumbling infrastructure cannot use a deadly pandemic as an excuse for none being realized, His dismissing the coronavirus as being "under control!" with "very few people with it!" who were "all getting better! They're all getting better!" did not enter the equation until his terminal year, as he lead the nation to the most infections and deaths attributed to covid-19 on earth.

Addison "Magoo" McConnell might celebrate stuffing our courts with right-wing jurists, but these are the same Trump appointees he has been savaging as of late, for scoffing at his crackpot attacks upon democracy and the will of the People.

If the U.S., in the wake of Trumpery, can defeat the raging pandemic, restore the nation's international trust and respect, recover global leadership in the existential mission to mitigate climate change (severing the Trump allegiance with pariahs Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Libya, Angola, Sudan, Yemen, and Eritrea in abstention) and, in addition, revive the spirit of the nation by refraining from surrendering to the federal government the power to confiscate the children of migrants, as well as safeguard the hopes of the hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants who are here through no fault of their own and have shown themselves to be law-abiding and have much to contribute to the nation, the retrospective view of Trumpery will be further eroded.

On the other hand, Trump has bloated the national debt, if you are a fan of that sort of thing.

RINOs of Trumpery must now undertake a relentless witch hunt for shreds of any reputed silver linings if posterity's judgement is not to be a definitive


Seriously, what do Trump's defenders celebrate as his legacy?

<YAWN!>
 
Trump addressed the public concern of unrestricted illegal immigration, the selling out of America to globalists, he also addressed the growing dissatisfaction of an ever increasing corrupt government that is not in tune with the voters.

Trump is not the disease, he is merely a symptom.

So by all means, continue to put a band aid on the cancer.
Thank you for your perspective.

Trump's current approval level of 42% compares quite unfavorably with his predecessor's exiting 60%, of course, but would be enhanced, in retrospect, if Biden were to prove a crass, lying, divisive, egomaniacal pifflewit who scoffs at science.

I won't presume to prejudge. One can never know for sure beforehand.
Biden has already proved that, moron.
 
Trump will be remembered as the last American president before the democrats turned the country over to the Chinese.
 
Trump NEVER said that all immigrants were rapists and drug dealers, but rapists and drug dealers do come across the border. So do we want to continue to let them in?
I never said that Trump's evoking his rapists and drug dealers was an exhaustive, inclusive description of migrants. To the contrary, it was extremely selective.

I doubt if even he would try to claim the children he had snatched from their parents were rapists and drug dealers.

Do you consider the 70,000 illegal crossings in November a confirmation of his success?
I call it confirmation that they know Biden won the election.
 
Before his inveterate apologists flail the pom poms and proclaim the failed casino operator and faded reality-tv entertainer the greatest thing since sliced atoms, consider the historical record:

2.9 million more Americans voted against him in 2016 than for him, most consistently and relentlessly disapproved of him throughout his four years in survey after survey, and nearly 7 million more Americans opted to dispose of the impeached POTUS at their first opportunity to do so in 2020 .

His principle campaign promises - to build a "big, beautiful wall" that he would force Mexico to pay for, a replacement of 'ObamaCare' with "something terrific!" that "covers everybody!" at "less cost!", his vows to resurrect coal mining, re-establish the steel industry, and rebuild the nation's crumbling infrastructure cannot use a deadly pandemic as an excuse for none being realized, His dismissing the coronavirus as being "under control!" with "very few people with it!" who were "all getting better! They're all getting better!" did not enter the equation until his terminal year, as he lead the nation to the most infections and deaths attributed to covid-19 on earth.

Addison "Magoo" McConnell might celebrate stuffing our courts with right-wing jurists, but these are the same Trump appointees he has been savaging as of late, for scoffing at his crackpot attacks upon democracy and the will of the People.

If the U.S., in the wake of Trumpery, can defeat the raging pandemic, restore the nation's international trust and respect, recover global leadership in the existential mission to mitigate climate change (severing the Trump allegiance with pariahs Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Libya, Angola, Sudan, Yemen, and Eritrea in abstention) and, in addition, revive the spirit of the nation by refraining from surrendering to the federal government the power to confiscate the children of migrants, as well as safeguard the hopes of the hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants who are here through no fault of their own and have shown themselves to be law-abiding and have much to contribute to the nation, the retrospective view of Trumpery will be further eroded.

On the other hand, Trump has bloated the national debt, if you are a fan of that sort of thing.

RINOs of Trumpery must now undertake a relentless witch hunt for shreds of any reputed silver linings if posterity's judgement is not to be a definitive


Seriously, what do Trump's defenders celebrate as his legacy?


The verdict of history should definitely not be that Trump stinks!

Instead, once the Dems control all three branches of the Federal government they should issue an order of DAMNATIO MEMORIAE against Trump!!!!
 
The verdict of history should definitely not be that Trump stinks!
History never kowtows to the hyper-partisans of yesteryear in these inevitable assessments. Qué será, será.

One aspect that might to some extent mitigate Trump's failures is his diminution of the office.


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Some feel that the Executive has usurped far too much power in recent years, and there is nothing like a scandal that resulted in impeachment to befoul the reputation - unless it is a POTUS losing interest in a national deadly crisis and twittering away his time in self-pity and snarky, petty, vindictive spite - that befouls the presidency.

Of course, there is also the underscoring of impotence by bipartisan successes in throwing the about-to-abscond irrelevancy's enfebled vetoes in the crapper.


House gears up to override Trump's defense policy bill veto
Another consideration is his ongoing legal jeopardy, everything from obstruction of justice and tax evasion to sexual assault. Such persistent notoriety hardly burnishes an already putrid image.
 
Before his inveterate apologists flail the pom poms and proclaim the failed casino operator and faded reality-tv entertainer the greatest thing since sliced atoms, consider the historical record:

2.9 million more Americans voted against him in 2016 than for him, most consistently and relentlessly disapproved of him throughout his four years in survey after survey, and nearly 7 million more Americans opted to dispose of the impeached POTUS at their first opportunity to do so in 2020 .

His principle campaign promises - to build a "big, beautiful wall" that he would force Mexico to pay for, a replacement of 'ObamaCare' with "something terrific!" that "covers everybody!" at "less cost!", his vows to resurrect coal mining, re-establish the steel industry, and rebuild the nation's crumbling infrastructure cannot use a deadly pandemic as an excuse for none being realized, His dismissing the coronavirus as being "under control!" with "very few people with it!" who were "all getting better! They're all getting better!" did not enter the equation until his terminal year, as he lead the nation to the most infections and deaths attributed to covid-19 on earth.

Addison "Magoo" McConnell might celebrate stuffing our courts with right-wing jurists, but these are the same Trump appointees he has been savaging as of late, for scoffing at his crackpot attacks upon democracy and the will of the People.

If the U.S., in the wake of Trumpery, can defeat the raging pandemic, restore the nation's international trust and respect, recover global leadership in the existential mission to mitigate climate change (severing the Trump allegiance with pariahs Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Libya, Angola, Sudan, Yemen, and Eritrea in abstention) and, in addition, revive the spirit of the nation by refraining from surrendering to the federal government the power to confiscate the children of migrants, as well as safeguard the hopes of the hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants who are here through no fault of their own and have shown themselves to be law-abiding and have much to contribute to the nation, the retrospective view of Trumpery will be further eroded.

On the other hand, Trump has bloated the national debt, if you are a fan of that sort of thing.

RINOs of Trumpery must now undertake a relentless witch hunt for shreds of any reputed silver linings if posterity's judgement is not to be a definitive


Seriously, what do Trump's defenders celebrate as his legacy?

Historians think he stinks now. They final verdict will be that he stunk.
 

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