Remembering Trump

There is no question that historians will rank Donald Trump as a very poor president and a failure dealing with his domestic agenda.

During his campaign in 2016 he promised voters he would repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with a wonderful health insurance bill for the middle class. He failed. He declared he would sign into law a “middle class tax cut.” What we got was a tax cut that gave 80% of the benefits to millionaires and corporations. The working class got screwed.

He never was interested in Congress passing an infrastructure bill to repair our crumbling roads and bridges, and he has done everything he could to pollute and destroy our environment.

What historians will also point to is a foreign policy record that matches his domestic failures. He stated that in his first year as president he would bring all the troops home from Afghanistan. The troops are still there, and worse yet, there is no plan to end this endless war.

He sent his son-in-law to the Middle East to get a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. He never came close to accomplishing this. His dumbest and most dangerous decision was to withdraw from an agreement keeping Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. The agreement was working, the problem was that Barack Obama initiated the deal. Thank goodness our new president has said he wants to get us back in the agreement.

Trump has also attacked and ridiculed our allies in NATO, and has cozied up to his buddy, Vladimir Putin. Joe Biden will have to spend a lot of time and effort to rebuild our trust with allies and to let Putin know he can’t trample all over us, as he has been doing.

Ralph S. Brax Lancaster