Trump’s achievements vs. Obama’s
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Now, near the end of the first year of President Donald Trump’s term of office, one must reflect. For the past year, the media and Democratic demagogues have railed against the stupidity and incompetence of the new president. A closer examination shows his significant accomplishments despite Democratic resistance to his every proposed action. An investigation has gone on for a year to prove his collaboration with Russians, yet the only shreds of evidence pointing toward collusions are from the Obama administration and the FBI.
President Barack Obama has the award for first president who did not increase GDP by 3 percent in any year during his eight-year term — despite his arrival during a significant economic downturn. In his first year, Mr. Trump has increased GDP by more than 3 percent in three of four quarters. During his eight years in office, Mr. Obama issued 20,642 rules and regulations at a compliance cost to America’s businesses of $890 billion — almost as much as the supposed costs of Mr. Trump’s tax deductions. And not one of those rules and regulations were voted for by Congress. Mr. Trump has already revoked more than a thousand. Some might say Mr. Obama was more dictator than president.
Despite issuing his own tactics for fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq, the battle raged for almost every year in Mr. Obama’s eight-year administration. In less than a year, Mr. Trump freed the tactics of our military, and ISIS is now fully defeated in Iraq and that war is ended.
A big claim by Mr. Obama is that he created millions of new jobs. And, in fact, during his eight years of governance a little over 11 million new jobs were created. But it must be cited that 6 million of those jobs went to the lowest-paying industries, like service industries (retail and food, etc.). Mr. Trump’s employment gains have come during a period of low unemployment, when suitable employees for high-paying jobs were few and far between, and in his first six months he created more than 1 million new jobs.
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