I have to wonder if Trump
knows he could have been the greatest president in the entire history of the
United States, something he hopes for and would complete his fondest dream. After the usual shenanigans of the rough-and-tumble primaries and 2016 election, he
could have done a complete 180°.
It was already widely known that his
friendship with and financial contributions to both sides of the political
aisle (Democrats and Republicans) had always been a plus going for him, and
something he could have built on and used to his and everyone's advantage. With complete backing of a GOP congress for the first two years, he could have
gotten so much done that basically all the people of America want:
- a major infrastructure program which would also have further stimulated the economy
- some sort of affordable healthcare for all, as he once promised
- comprehensive immigration reform, including for DACA
- a full-speed-ahead, no-holds-barred green energy program
- higher education promotion and assistance, a tide that lifts all our boats
- reasonable gun regulations to mitigate mass shootings, our U.S. way of life today.
But did he try to address and
accomplish these difficult problems? No. He squandered his political capital on, among other
things:
- a border wall NOT paid for by Mexico, but out of our states’ military budgets
- a trillion-and-a-half dollar tax break to the already wealthy, most of whom reinvested it in stock buybacks of their own companies
- managed to make our society, this beautiful melting pot experiment called America, even more xenophobic
As history played out, to Donald
Trump and everyone else’s surprise, he became the unlikely President of the
United States, was handed the keys to the most powerful office on the planet which
was served up to him on a silver platter, but wasted that kind of power and influence on
self-interest.
Do you agree with this
assessment? What did I get wrong? Let’s discuss.
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