For the sake of argument, let's put aside all of the things former President Donald Trump represents and believes in. Let’s pretend he isn’t a racist, homophobic, sexist, transphobic, ableist, divisionist, insurrectionist, bigot with a trophy wife, a fake orange tan, a blow-dried foldover haircut, and a fake fortune. If none of these factors bother you, or don’t bother you enough to affect your support for him, then let’s discuss how effective he was as a president running a country.
In an interview with journalist Bob Woodward, Trump claims: “Well, accurate is that nobody’s ever done a better job than I’m doing as president.” says the man who got the lowest rating of any president in modern history.
A few things Trump did while president:
Tweeted
Played golf
Vacationed
(America) Had the highest unemployment rate since the Great Depression
Failed to go to his security briefings
Hopelessly divided his country
Trump was incredibly incompetent. Whether you agreed with what he represented or not, it can be clearly seen that he failed to accomplish many of his staggeringly ambitious campaign promises. Here’s a list of those unfulfilled promises:
Never finished building his wall
Never repealed Obama care
Got his followers arrested
Never expelled all undocumented immigrants
Never ditched NATO
Never prosecuted Hillary Clinton
Never reenacted waterboarding policy
Never paid off the federal budget deficit
The economy argument
The big old economy argument. Some people like to state that the economy was doing well when Trump was in office, this is true, but it is no argument that validates that the former president was a good leader. First of all, Obama granted him a great economy. The former president started out at the bottom of the great recession, he was able to make a change, he rescued the economy from certain destruction and total devastation. Trump, on the other hand, was handed a great economy. It’s difficult to completely destroy a growing tax revenue in four years, so a round of applause for Mr. Trump. Anyone who thinks the president is solely responsible for the economy is hopelessly naive.
The chart on the right shows the difference in approval ratings for Trump and Obama, in which the percentages depict voters’ contentment with the quality of each President's performance while in office (first term only).
The Former President was Incapable of Being a Good Leader
The White House was described as “chaotic” by multiple writers for magazines such as “Time Magazine” and “The Atlantic”.
He believed that humans with education, experience, training were nothing but fools, he considered himself to be more aware of their area of expertise.
He was a liar, never admitted that he didn’t have everything under control to the public and fed them with false information.
He didn’t know how to plan for the future.
Instead of doing actual work, he made meaningless tweets about Democratic politicians.
He couldn’t get his priorities straight.
His priority was how he looked as a leader not how his country was doing.
We all disagree on value, policy, and what political party we support or hate. This is normal, and what honest differences are all about, but you can’t say you support Trump and everything he stands for without coming to grips with the fact that when it comes to the government, he and his team didn’t have a clue on how to run it efficiently or effectively. Love him or hate him, one thing I hope we can all agree on is he didn’t really ever understand what the job of president was all about.
Edited by Natalia Rakviashvili
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