The Donald Trump Score Card

What I'm saying is that the excuse given for building the Berlin wall was to keep undesirables from crossing from West Berlin into East Berlin.
We know that wasn't true, but that was the reason given.
Trump's excuse for building the Mexican wall is to keep undesirables from crossing from Mexico into the U.S.
We know that isn't true as there are many other ways of establishing a rational border policy, but that is the reason Trump is giving because he made a stupid campaign promise calculated to scare people by using lies, untruths, fear, and racism...and now he's stuck with it.

Same B.S.

 

Executive time.

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Here's a fact check, I checked.
Trump:
"1 in 3 women is sexually assaulted on the long journey north."
True, that's why they travel in caravans, for safety.

"Year after year, countless Americans are murdered by criminal illegal aliens."
B.S.

"The border city of El Paso, Texas, used to have extremely high rates of violent crime -- one of the highest in the country, and considered one of our nation's most dangerous cities. Now, with a powerful barrier in place, El Paso is one of our safest cities."
More B.S.

"The lawless state of our southern border is a threat to the safety, security and financial well-being of all Americans."
Guess what? B.S.

"I want people to come into our country, in the largest numbers ever, but they have to come in legally."
Baloney.

"In just over two years since the election, we have launched an unprecedented economic boom -- a boom that has rarely been seen before."
He hasn't screwed up Obama's recovery yet.


"We have unleashed a revolution in American Energy -- the United States is now the number one producer of oil and natural gas in the world."
True. but that is due to fracking technology, not anything Trump has done.

We have "added 600,000 new manufacturing jobs. Something which almost everyone said was impossible to do, but the fact is we are just getting started."
The real number is 454,000. Falling oil prices deserve some credit.

"No one has benefited more from our thriving economy than women, who have filled 58% of the newly created jobs last year. All Americans can be proud that we have more women in the workforce than ever before."
The number of women in the workforce has dropped since 2000. Other advanced nations out do us in this area.

"More people are working now than at any time in our history. 157 million people at work."
True, but many of the f the jobs aren't the greatest and percentage wise we have lost jobs.

"I know that Congress is eager to pass an infrastructure bill," Trump said, "and I am eager to work with you on legislation to deliver new and important infrastructure investment, including investments in the cutting-edge industries of the future."
His plan is to make local an state governments pay for that stuff by paying four times what the fed would contribute. Also privatize a bunch of stuff.

"It is unacceptable that Americans pay vastly more than people in other countries for the exact same drugs, often made in the exact same place. This is wrong, this is unfair, and together we will stop it."
His proposal...

"As a result of my administration's efforts, in 2018 drug prices experienced their single largest decline in 46 years."
True...but

"We have spent more than $7 trillion dollars in the Middle East," Trump said of the conflicts "in Afghanistan and Iraq."
A lie. First of all Afghanistan isn't in the Middle East. Real cost $1.6 trillion, so he's off a wee bit.

"When I took office, ISIS controlled more than 20,000 square miles in Iraq and Syria. Just two years ago. Today, we have liberated virtually all of the territory from the grip of these bloodthirsty monsters."
True, but he didn't repeat that they were defeated.

"If I had not been elected President of the United States, we would right now, in my opinion, be in a major war with North Korea."
Whatever.

"We are also getting other nations to pay their fair share. Finally. For years, the United States was being treated very unfairly by friends of ours -- members of NATO. But now we have secured, over the last couple of years, more than $100 billion of increase in defense spending from our NATO allies. They said it couldn't be done."
NATO is spending more. That was started by George W. Bush and Barack Obama.


Trump declared that the US is withdrawing from the 1987 Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, adding that "while we followed the agreement to the letter, Russia repeatedly violated its terms."
True.

"This new era of cooperation can start with finally confirming the more than 300 highly qualified nominees who are still stuck in the Senate — in some cases years and years waiting. Not right. The Senate has failed to act on these nominations, which is unfair to the nominees and very unfair to our country. Now is the time for bipartisan action."
First the Senate is controlled by his own party. 274 positions, not 300, haven't been confirmed. 144 because Trump hasn't nominated anybody.