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"If Donald Trump were in virtually any other position of responsibility, action would already be under way to remove him from that role," @JamesFallows

HEALTHCARE. F Trump promised but has done less than nothing to help the nation toward healthcare availability or affordability. He works against it. Anything to dismantle what Obama did, good or bad. He has only tried to destroy what Obama started with the ACA. There is no Trump healthcare plan; never was. There is no republican health care plan, except “don’t get sick or go to the ER.” All the financial devastation and bankruptcy is lost on them. The destruction, misery, inequity; Republicans care nothing about it and Trump Care’s less. Plus, he is stupid and doesn’t understand how it works anyway.

INFRASTRUCTURE. F. Trump has done nothing to repair, refurbish, plan, encourage or rebuild our infrastructure as he promised. It was just empty word-nonsense. No projects. No ports, airports, road, rail, public parks, public building projects, schools, bridges, factories, public systems of transport. Really just a dismal nothing at all. High sounding plans and promises, but meaningless nonsense. Like his whole administration, really.

FOREIGN POLICY. F. It is hard to find, in our history, a president less effective and, at the same time, more destructive, in the area of foreign relations, than Donald Trump. He has accomplished less than nothing, while making it look to the unsophisticated, as if he is wheeling and dealing across the planet. As one example, Kim Jon Un. Trump has accomplished absolutely nothing with Kim. The meetings in lush hotels with lots of blather and press and loud mouthing have done nothing but elevate Kim to the stature of world power leader and placed him on par with first world leaders. In point of fact, Kim runs a backward, starving country, with no real trade, industry, airline, and a military that doesn’t even have airplanes, except some old 1960’s vintage clunkers that they got from Russia and China. They are broke, with a huge army, but little more. Their claim to fame is being able to threaten South Korea, and thereby the US. None of that has been dealt with at all. Kim is still a lunatic, we have zero commitments for nuclear disarmament, or weapons withdrawal. It has been nothing but a few days in nice hotels, ha ha-ing around. Just a lot of glad-hand and blather. Typical nothing from nothing. Trump has crashed relationships with our major first world allies, and badly hurt trade between us and our most important trading partners, Canada and Mexico. He is crass, rude, dismissive and regularly slanders the heads of state of U.K., France, Germany. When he speaks, it is generally nonsensical word-salad, showing zero grasp of the issues between we and our allies, nor the history that gives rise to it. He is thought a fool, across the planet...although the world also understands Trump is the most powerful human on Earth, so they often tread lightly. They laugh; nervously. Like you would at a thanksgiving dinner when your drunk uncle picks up a loaded gun and waves it around, screaming unintelligibly. His conduct is like a churlish, belligerent 12-year-old. He has left, in his wake, literally millions of first world citizens laughing at him, deriding him...he has become a crude world joke. This has absolutely to go on with Russia, Iran, Mexico, Central America, France, Germany....one could go on interminably.

TAXES. F. Trump has done nothing to readjust taxation or public finance. His stupid “tax cut” didn’t generate factory expansion, job growth, innovation or income disparity…because it was a trickle-down giveaway that generated stock buy backs and made rich richer. It was a stupid, blundering failure, unless you were a CEO, I suppose.

TRADE. F. While international trade problems, including intellectual property theft and trade imbalance are real problems, Trump has interjected not solutions but rather headline-grabbing chaos and blabble. Farmers and consumers have been hurt, not helped. He will not admit to an interdependent international economy, so his policies do nothing to make that reality work better.

ENVIRONMENT. Trump has done nothing for the environment. He doesn’t think about or believe in public land preservation, in conservation, in global climate change, in ecological issues. He’s so useless on the ecology that talking about it is a waste of time.

IMMIGRATION. F. Immigration reform. A needed reform, Trump has divided the nation, prevented meaningful reform, crashed Central American policy making and executing diplomatic policy to root out the causes, created an emergency on the southern border, ignored the primary cause of illegal immigration, which is the VISA overstay problem and just cost a lot of money, pain and noise, but accomplished nothing bipartisan or practical. In the end, efficient, effective border control, and attraction of topflight immigrants is not happening; just the opposite. Flashy ICE roundups of people doing jobs no one else will do, chaotic, nonsensical legislative action, declaring a non-existent emergency, misusing the military, lying about building a wall  (not one foot of which has been built), and tossing a hand grenade into Congress has been an ongoing Trump-Fiasco, without accomplishment. He has caused rift and expense with local government, making splashing, grisly headlines for cruel and meaningless zero-tolerance enforcement, and has been a horrific, zero accomplishment cock up.

EXECUTIVE BRANCH ADMINISTRATION. F. Trump’s administration and executive ability has been a mass of chaos, confusion, churlish dysfunction and the revolving door of incompetents, unethical grifters, criminals and inept, unvetted, right-wing stooges. His main accomplishments have revolved around firing or chasing away the most competent professionals and replacing them either with no one, so he careens stupidly around ‘doing it himself’, or with unqualified sycophants who drool, lie and suck up to him, but really administer not much at all….and then usually leave quickly. Nor are they generally qualified anyway. The executive branch is in dangerous tatters, held together by the civil service at lower levels who put their heads down and chug along. The White House staffing is a national joke, made up of clowns, suck-ups, inept tits, liars and stooges, with basically nothing getting done except gassing up Air Force One to fly Idiot Trump to his Idiot “Rallies”.