Trump's failed promises thus far

[jimnyc]

Kinda as I said in my other thread, I think some of this he is learning on the job, and spoke BS while on the trail as things change once you're in office and actually doing things, instead of yapping about them.

While I'll be there to toss things out when Trump is doing good, I'm not afraid to post things like this and point out he is far from perfect.

I don't know to which lengths he can help with the healthcare issue, but that's one that I want to see done. And the wall, which isn't on this list, I want to see done. I think the wall would be well underway if not for congress.


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Every Promise President Trump Has Broken That Candidate Trump Made

Donald Trump has been in office for 100 days now. Though he has touted his nomination of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch to the Supreme Court as one of his biggest accomplishments, the president has flip-flopped or not fulfilled several central promises he made to his supporters throughout the campaign.

He has given various reasons for his one-eighties. Repealing the Affordable Care Act? “Nobody knew health care could be so complicated.” China? “What am I going to do? Start a trade war with China?” NATO? “It’s no longer obsolete.”

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Repealing the Affordable Care Act and replacing it

Trump said he would do this in his first 100 days.

“I will work with Congress to introduce the following broader legislative measures and fight for their passage within the first 100 days of my administration,” he said during a speech in Pennsylvania last fall. “The Repeal and Replace Obamacare Act. Fully repeal Obamacare and replace it with health savings accounts. We can do that.”

House Republicans pulled their proposed bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act in March, just minutes after they were scheduled to vote on it, when it become clear they didn’t have the votes to pass.

Terminating Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

On the campaign trail, Trump promised to “immediately terminate” DACA, which protects hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children from deportation, but he changed his tune in an interview with the Associated Press in April when he said the administration is “not after the dreamers.”

“We are after the criminals,” Trump said. “That is our policy.”

Ending the H-1B visa program

Trump pledged to kill the H-1B visa program with “no exceptions” because, he believes, it allows companies to import foreign workers and replace American workers for a lower cost. In mid-April, he signed an executive order seeking to enforce the H-1B visa program so it “serves the national interest” by awarding visas to the most-skilled and highest-paid applicants without bypassing American workers who are qualified for those jobs.

Eliminating the Export-Import bank

Trump reversed his position on the agency when he said he no longer wants to eliminate it, but reshape it.
He recently called it “a very good thing” and announced plans to nominate two board members.

“Actually, it’s a very good thing,” Trump told the Wall Street Journal. “And it actually makes money, it could make a lot of money.”

“It turns out that, first of all, lots of small companies are really helped, the vendor companies. When other countries give it we lose a tremendous amount of business.”

The relevance of NATO

“I said it was obsolete,” Trump said. “It is no longer obsolete.”

Labeling China a currency manipulator

“They’re not currency manipulators,” Trump recently told the Wall Street Journal.

When asked if this could be seen as softening his stance on China, Trump credited his newfound relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping and the looming nuclear weapons problem in North Korea.

“What am I going to do? Start a trade war with China in the middle of him working on a bigger problem, frankly, with North Korea? So, I’m dealing with China with great respect. I have great respect of him.”

http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/29/ev...te-trump-made/

[LongTermGuy]

"Trump said he would do this in his first 100 days."

*Then he has to fight the establishment....the leftist....the Never Trumpers....

My view...take some now...get more later....but keep fighting...and draining the swamp one step at a time...

** aint easy when surrounded by cacaroaches (of all types) wanting to see you gone.....Trump knows whats going on....

Trump message to the Fools trying to stop him...

[Waring]

Still hasn't built that wall either.

[Black Diamond]

I want to give him time.

[SassyLady]

He's done exactly what I voted for him to do .. Supreme Court.

Everything else ... well, it is what it is.

[Kathianne]

He's done exactly what I voted for him to do .. Supreme Court.

Everything else ... well, it is what it is.

Supreme Court was huge, I have to admit it was an excellent pick. I'm also glad to hear they have freed students to some degree with the hot lunch program-that's a win.

Hope they do figure out the rest, but right now it looks like he's blaming anyone and even institutions for any losses, giving himself credit anywhere he can.
Coulter and Limbaugh have criticized, not strong, but loud.

[NightTrain]

The biggest threat to Trump not getting things done isn't the democrats. It's the GOP Congress fracturing again and not backing his play.

It's hard to say if he's softening on the hardline repeal DACA and such related BS - H1Bs - and that fiery stance instantly garnered him a LOT of support, so if he is backing off that as he listens to knuckleheads urging him to back off that for political reasons when his entire platform was Renegade, it will sink him.

That said, I'm not entirely sure he is backing off those issues or simply putting it on the back burner for the moment. He's taking a lot of flak from Coulter and other early supportive conservatives for appearing to soften, so we'll see how that shakes out.

And, yeah, SCOTUS was - and is - a huge concern and we've got that safe with a great chance to replace 2 more good originalist justices. It wasn't too long ago that all of us were dreading what was going to happen with Hellary appointments and things were looking bleak indeed. Don't forget the position we'd be in with 3 more Bader-Ginsburgs - it's not too far fetched to say that such a scenario would have destroyed this country and that's a sobering thought - overrun by terrorists, unarmed, underemployed with $8/gallon gas we buy from our OPEC overlords with insurance no one can afford as we helplessly spiraled to a larger version of Venezuela.

I think that all of us would like to see more of his visions implemented immediately, but I'm not sure that all our expectations as far as a timeline are realistic. I'm willing to give the man a chance as he gets up to speed... there's a tremendous amount of learning involved and campaign promises are easily made but not always easily implemented despite the best efforts.

It's a fledgling administration and I'm confident that things will get smoother soon and the momentum will build. The only real danger is lack of support from the GOP as I see it, and if that happens then all is lost. At that point I'll be in the 'Let the GOP burn' camp. I don't know what other realistic political alternatives there are - it certainly isn't the wacky Libertarians - but I'm thinking there will be millions more like me in the same mindset and a new, better political party will be born.

[Black Diamond]

The biggest threat to Trump not getting things done isn't the democrats. It's the GOP Congress fracturing again and not backing his play.

It's hard to say if he's softening on the hardline repeal DACA and such related BS - H1Bs - and that fiery stance instantly garnered him a LOT of support, so if he is backing off that as he listens to knuckleheads urging him to back off that for political reasons when his entire platform was Renegade, it will sink him.

That said, I'm not entirely sure he is backing off those issues or simply putting it on the back burner for the moment. He's taking a lot of flak from Coulter and other early supportive conservatives for appearing to soften, so we'll see how that shakes out.

And, yeah, SCOTUS was - and is - a huge concern and we've got that safe with a great chance to replace 2 more good originalist justices. It wasn't too long ago that all of us were dreading what was going to happen with Hellary appointments and things were looking bleak indeed. Don't forget the position we'd be in with 3 more Bader-Ginsburgs - it's not too far fetched to say that such a scenario would have destroyed this country and that's a sobering thought - overrun by terrorists, unarmed, underemployed with $8/gallon gas we buy from our OPEC overlords with insurance no one can afford as we helplessly spiraled to a larger version of Venezuela.

I think that all of us would like to see more of his visions implemented immediately, but I'm not sure that all our expectations as far as a timeline are realistic. I'm willing to give the man a chance as he gets up to speed... there's a tremendous amount of learning involved and campaign promises are easily made but not always easily implemented despite the best efforts.

It's a fledgling administration and I'm confident that things will get smoother soon and the momentum will build. The only real danger is lack of support from the GOP as I see it, and if that happens then all is lost. At that point I'll be in the 'Let the GOP burn' camp. I don't know what other realistic political alternatives there are - it certainly isn't the wacky Libertarians - but I'm thinking there will be millions more like me in the same mindset and a new, better political party will be born.

Some people want heroin flowing into the country.

[NightTrain]

Some people want heroin flowing into the country.

I would expect that every junkie and dealer feels that way.

[Black Diamond]

I would expect that every junkie and dealer feels that way.

And aoparently all leftists.