The Donald Trump Score Card

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  1. egger

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    Trump turned some U.S. farmers into essentially welfare recipients by giving farmers checks direct from the government to try to mitigate the damage incurred by his trade wars. Those are direct checks to people with no strings attached, not subsidies to a farm industry. It could be spent on opioid abuse for all anyone knows.

    Trump wants old fashioned toilets that aren't as efficient as newer designs. Without evidence, he says newer toilets require ten times more flushing.

    During the 2020 election, Trump claimed he fixed the dishwashing machines of housewives that were supposedly damaged by new technology.
     
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    Trump's tariffs on metals were supposed to help the steel industry by artificially raising the price in the U.S. Overall, it damaged the economy by raising the prices of metals-related products in many other industries. G.W. Bush made the same mistake with steel tariffs.

    After reaching agreements with them, Trump unexpectedly imposed metal tariffs on Brazil and Argentina as punishment for supposedly, and without evidence, engaging in currency manipulation against the U.S. Trump may have been upset that countries in South America were benefitting from manufacturing activity that was displaced from the U.S. to other countries as a result of his trade wars (i.e., countries buying farm products such as soy from Brazil instead of the U.S.).

    Trump talked about digging up dirty coal, cleaning it, then burying it to be dug up again later as clean coal. Over the decades, the U.S. energy industry has been consistently moving away from coal toward other energy sources such as natural gas, wind, solar, and hydro.
     
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    There isn't an aluminum smelter nor extruder in the USA anymore. The 25% aluminum tariffs have done nothing but punish the US. I see it every damn day in my business. I mean it was meant to give business to US companies, but folks.....there ain't none....
     
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    I don’t think he would go work for Trump- I believe he still dislikes him and really doesn’t want anything to do with him. He was doing that interview to smooth things over for Fox News network. Stranger things have happened, though….
     
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    I am not saying that the examples you have given are wholly untrue, but their is a true saying that if it takes a year to run a business down, it will take ten years to rebuild it.
    Putting the ball back in your court, since you are saying that Biden has succeeded where Trump failed. Can you tell me where I can go out tomorrow and buy a new car or a pair of Levi's jeans manufactured in the USA. Would you advise me to book a holiday in Detroit next month to visit all the new factories and guarantee that I would not meet a single drug dealer or watch any abandoned houses burning to the ground.
    Has Biden stopped imports from China to allow businesses in the US to regrow, or has he fallen into the trap of allowing China to invest in rebuilding US industry, taking ownership of it at the same time.

    This all raises the question of whether the US should be run by a single president, or whether the states should become independent, held together by a structure such as the EU.

    Sadly, using the formula for regrowth that I mentioned, it will take at least 40 years to make America great again as an independent country. How many people today want to suffer the toil and hardship, with rock bottom standards of living, for the sake of their grandchildren living in a great country.
    I wish I knew the answers, it took me 17 years to turn around one company in the UK. When I retired, it took 2 years for it to fall apart again. It is now wholly owned by the Chinese banks. Around 400 UK buildings, valued at 31 million pounds EACH.
    The dozy UK government did not bat a hair. They are currently looking at a deal, where China will wholly own our nuclear power stations.
     
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    He was certainly right on that one. Have you ever tried taking a crap at Heathrow airports new terminal. :D
     
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