TRUMP'S OWN WORDS AND DEEDS

[KristiD]

With everyone's emotions running so high about the elections, I think it's a good time for the candidates to speak for themselves.  Second and third hand information and confidential sources who may have ulterior motives, are not very credible.  Fortunately, both Trump and Biden have hours and hours of audio and video that speak for themselves.  They also both have a record of what they've done - Trump has almost four years in office and Biden has over 40.  In this thread, I'm asking people to post audio or video from Trump's own mouth and/or documentation on what Trump has accomplished - both good and bad.  There is another thread for Biden:  link

 

People are also welcome to post audio, video and documented accomplishments from Mike Pence here, as well.

 

This thread is only to document what the candidates themselves have said or done.  Please respect that other members here are capable of forming their own conclusions about what the candidates said or did, and that they don't need your help.  Please don't hijack this thread by turning it into an argument - there are plenty of other threads where you can do that.  I'm starting this thread to try and limit the escalating divisiveness here, but still have a place where we can post factual information to support our points of view, whether it's positive or negative, about a candidate.  Our country is being torn apart.  People are so angry and full of rage they've lost respect for civility and are even celebrating murder - as if unilaterally declaring someone is a fascist with no evidence other than that they like Trump, makes it okay to kill them.  Please, help me try and rein that craziness in here at DV.  Please just let the facts speak for themselves.  If you don't want to do that, that's fine.  But please don't post here, and instead go post in one of the many, argumentative threads that already exist. 

 

However, I do realize people feel very strongly about all this, so I propose that you can express your opinon on whether you think the comment or action is a good thing, by giving it an "upvote".  And since the snowflakes here prevailed and took away our ability to downvote a post, how about we use a "confused face" to mean that you, as the reader, think the comment or action is a bad thing.  That way, you are allowed to civilly and respectfully express your opinon on what was posted, but not start an argument. 

 

Again, only post actual videos, audios and documented proof of actions that were taken by Trump or Pence, themselves - with only a BRIEF introduction if you want.

 

 

Edited September 18, 2020 by KristiD

[KristiD]

from this  month - signing of Abraham Accord peace agreement with Israel, U.A.E. and Bahrain starts at 34:30 mark

 

[KristiD]

from this week, repatriation of Native American artifacts and human remains that were held in Finland for over 100 years

 

[KristiD]

from this week, Trump's intention to NOT rewrite American history

 

[Pitcher]

Perfect Kristi.  I will follow the rules 

 

 

[Pitcher]

 

[caddieman]

 

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[KristiD]

As of September 2018  link

Trump Administration Accomplishments

• Almost 4 million jobs created since election.
• More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history.
• We have created more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs since my election.
• Manufacturing jobs growing at the fastest rate in more than THREE DECADES.
• Economic growth last quarter hit 4.2 percent.
• New unemployment claims recently hit a 49-year low.
• Median household income has hit highest level ever recorded.
• African-American unemployment has recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
• Hispanic-American unemployment is at the lowest rate ever recorded.
• Asian-American unemployment recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
• Women’s unemployment recently reached the lowest rate in 65 years.
• Youth unemployment has recently hit the lowest rate in nearly half a century.
• Lowest unemployment rate ever recorded for Americans without a high school diploma.
• Under my Administration, veterans’ unemployment recently reached its lowest rate in nearly 20 years.
• Almost 3.9 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps since the election.
• The Pledge to America’s Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans. We are committed to VOCATIONAL education.
• 95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future—the highest ever.
• Retail sales surged last month, up another 6 percent over last year.
• Signed the biggest package of tax cuts and reforms in history. After tax cuts, over $300 billion poured back in to the U.S. in the first quarter alone.
• As a result of our tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.
• Helped win U.S. bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
• Helped win U.S.-Mexico-Canada’s united bid for 2026 World Cup.
• Opened ANWR and approved Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines.
• Record number of regulations eliminated.
• Enacted regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.
• Obamacare individual mandate penalty GONE.
• My Administration is providing more affordable healthcare options for Americans through association health plans and short-term duration plans.
• Last month, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history. And thanks to our efforts, many drug companies are freezing or reversing planned price increases.
• We reformed the Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugs—saving seniors hundreds of millions of dollars this year alone.
• Signed Right-To-Try legislation.
• Secured $6 billion in NEW funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
• We have reduced high-dose opioid prescriptions by 16 percent during my first year in office.
• Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.
• Increased our coal exports by 60 percent; U.S. oil production recently reached all-time high.
• United States is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957.
• Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord.
• Cancelled the illegal, anti-coal, so-called Clean Power Plan.
• Secured record $700 billion in military funding; $716 billion next year.
• NATO allies are spending $69 billion more on defense since 2016.
• Process has begun to make the Space Force the 6th branch of the Armed Forces.
• Confirmed more circuit court judges than any other new administration.
• Confirmed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
• Withdrew from the horrible, one-sided Iran Deal.
• Moved U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
• Protecting Americans from terrorists with the Travel Ban, upheld by Supreme Court.
• Issued Executive Order to keep open Guantanamo Bay.
• Concluded a historic U.S.-Mexico Trade Deal to replace NAFTA. And negotiations with Canada are underway as we speak.
• Reached a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S. exports.
• Imposed tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum to protect our national security.
• Imposed tariffs on China in response to China’s forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices.
• Net exports are on track to increase by $59 billion this year.
• Improved vetting and screening for refugees, and switched focus to overseas resettlement.
• We have begun BUILDING THE WALL. Republicans want STRONG BORDERS and NO CRIME. Democrats want OPEN BORDERS which equals MASSIVE CRIME.

 

[boosterbglee]

I'll take action over "words" anytime!  

[caddieman]

3 hours ago, KristiD said:

As of September 2018  link

Trump Administration Accomplishments

• Almost 4 million jobs created since election.
• More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history.
• We have created more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs since my election.
• Manufacturing jobs growing at the fastest rate in more than THREE DECADES.
• Economic growth last quarter hit 4.2 percent.
• New unemployment claims recently hit a 49-year low.
• Median household income has hit highest level ever recorded.
• African-American unemployment has recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
• Hispanic-American unemployment is at the lowest rate ever recorded.
• Asian-American unemployment recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
• Women’s unemployment recently reached the lowest rate in 65 years.
• Youth unemployment has recently hit the lowest rate in nearly half a century.
• Lowest unemployment rate ever recorded for Americans without a high school diploma.
• Under my Administration, veterans’ unemployment recently reached its lowest rate in nearly 20 years.
• Almost 3.9 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps since the election.
• The Pledge to America’s Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans. We are committed to VOCATIONAL education.
• 95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future—the highest ever.
• Retail sales surged last month, up another 6 percent over last year.
• Signed the biggest package of tax cuts and reforms in history. After tax cuts, over $300 billion poured back in to the U.S. in the first quarter alone.
• As a result of our tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.
• Helped win U.S. bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
• Helped win U.S.-Mexico-Canada’s united bid for 2026 World Cup.
• Opened ANWR and approved Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines.
• Record number of regulations eliminated.
• Enacted regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.
• Obamacare individual mandate penalty GONE.
• My Administration is providing more affordable healthcare options for Americans through association health plans and short-term duration plans.
• Last month, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history. And thanks to our efforts, many drug companies are freezing or reversing planned price increases.
• We reformed the Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugs—saving seniors hundreds of millions of dollars this year alone.
• Signed Right-To-Try legislation.
• Secured $6 billion in NEW funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
• We have reduced high-dose opioid prescriptions by 16 percent during my first year in office.
• Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.
• Increased our coal exports by 60 percent; U.S. oil production recently reached all-time high.
• United States is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957.
• Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord.
• Cancelled the illegal, anti-coal, so-called Clean Power Plan.
• Secured record $700 billion in military funding; $716 billion next year.
• NATO allies are spending $69 billion more on defense since 2016.
• Process has begun to make the Space Force the 6th branch of the Armed Forces.
• Confirmed more circuit court judges than any other new administration.
• Confirmed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
• Withdrew from the horrible, one-sided Iran Deal.
• Moved U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
• Protecting Americans from terrorists with the Travel Ban, upheld by Supreme Court.
• Issued Executive Order to keep open Guantanamo Bay.
• Concluded a historic U.S.-Mexico Trade Deal to replace NAFTA. And negotiations with Canada are underway as we speak.
• Reached a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S. exports.
• Imposed tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum to protect our national security.
• Imposed tariffs on China in response to China’s forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices.
• Net exports are on track to increase by $59 billion this year.
• Improved vetting and screening for refugees, and switched focus to overseas resettlement.
• We have begun BUILDING THE WALL. Republicans want STRONG BORDERS and NO CRIME. Democrats want OPEN BORDERS which equals MASSIVE CRIME.

 

Trump’s Numbers July 2020 Update

Statistical measures of how things have changed since the president took office.

• 7.8 million jobs have been lost — including 7,100 coal mining jobs and 274,000 manufacturing jobs.
• The unemployment rate soared to the highest levels since World War II, and stood at 11.1% most recently.
• The economy — which had been growing modestly — shrank at an annual rate of 5% in the first quarter and much worse is predicted in the quarter just ended.
• Stock prices dropped sharply in response to COVID-19, but they have since mostly recovered. The NASDAQ index even set some new records.
• Corporate profits sagged, recently running 6% lower (even after taxes) than before Trump took office.
• But inflation remained low, and real weekly wages (for those who still have jobs) are up 7.3%.

Unemployment — The unemployment rate, after falling at times to the lowest rate in half a century, hit a high of 14.7% in April, by far the highest since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking the figure in 1948.

 

 

Manufacturing Jobs —  Manufacturing jobs — which had increased under Trump — took a deep dive as the virus crisis forced a wave of plant closings.

Nearly 1.4 million manufacturing jobs were lost in March and April. A little over 600,000 of those had been regained by mid-June.

But the net result is that as of the latest report, 274,000 fewer people were employed in manufacturing than when Trump took office. That followed a net decrease of 192,000 under Obama.

Economic Growth

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic sent the economy into its current deep recession, the U.S. economy had been growing more slowly than Trump once promised.

Real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product grew 2.3% last year and 2.9% the year before — better than the 1.6% growth in 2016 but far less than the 4% to 6% per year that Trump promised repeatedly, both when he was a candidate and also as president. Growth in Trump’s best year was no better than growth in Obama’s best year, 2015.

 

Coal and Environment

Coal Mining Jobs — As a candidate, Trump promised to “put our [coal] miners back to work,” but he hasn’t.

As of June, there were 7,100 fewer coal mining jobs than when Trump took office, according to BLS figures. That’s a decline of nearly 14%.

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/07/trumps-numbers-july-2020-update/

 

 

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[Markinsa]

7 minutes ago, caddieman said:

 

 

We all went over this in 2016, it was a non issue for those who voted for him then, and will be when those who didn't vote for him, vote for him this time. 

 

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[gregp]

19 minutes ago, caddieman said:

Trump’s Numbers July 2020 Update

Statistical measures of how things have changed since the president took office.

• 7.8 million jobs have been lost — including 7,100 coal mining jobs and 274,000 manufacturing jobs.
• The unemployment rate soared to the highest levels since World War II, and stood at 11.1% most recently.
• The economy — which had been growing modestly — shrank at an annual rate of 5% in the first quarter and much worse is predicted in the quarter just ended.
• Stock prices dropped sharply in response to COVID-19, but they have since mostly recovered. The NASDAQ index even set some new records.
• Corporate profits sagged, recently running 6% lower (even after taxes) than before Trump took office.
• But inflation remained low, and real weekly wages (for those who still have jobs) are up 7.3%.

Unemployment — The unemployment rate, after falling at times to the lowest rate in half a century, hit a high of 14.7% in April, by far the highest since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking the figure in 1948.

 

 

Manufacturing Jobs —  Manufacturing jobs — which had increased under Trump — took a deep dive as the virus crisis forced a wave of plant closings.

Nearly 1.4 million manufacturing jobs were lost in March and April. A little over 600,000 of those had been regained by mid-June.

But the net result is that as of the latest report, 274,000 fewer people were employed in manufacturing than when Trump took office. That followed a net decrease of 192,000 under Obama.

Economic Growth

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic sent the economy into its current deep recession, the U.S. economy had been growing more slowly than Trump once promised.

Real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product grew 2.3% last year and 2.9% the year before — better than the 1.6% growth in 2016 but far less than the 4% to 6% per year that Trump promised repeatedly, both when he was a candidate and also as president. Growth in Trump’s best year was no better than growth in Obama’s best year, 2015.

 

Coal and Environment

Coal Mining Jobs — As a candidate, Trump promised to “put our [coal] miners back to work,” but he hasn’t.

As of June, there were 7,100 fewer coal mining jobs than when Trump took office, according to BLS figures. That’s a decline of nearly 14%.

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/07/trumps-numbers-july-2020-update/

 

 

WTF?!! I know we’re not supposed to argue on this thread, but this is total crap!!  

[Markinsa]

1 minute ago, gregp said:

WTF?!! I know we’re not supposed to argue on this thread, but this is total crap!!  

 

Look on the bright side, that's all the left has.  Crap, no substance.

 

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[caddieman]

"This post is from another forum and is commentary, it is not a legitimate news source. - Posted by Moderator Staff"

 

Donald Trump: "Republicans are Dumb", why did this video disappear off the internet?

I have no dog in the political race, but 4 months ago saw a video on Facebook where Donald Trump said the following:

“If I were to run, I’d run as a Republican. They’re the dumbest group of voters in the country. They believe anything on Fox News. I could lie and they’d still eat it up. I bet my numbers would be terrific.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/politicalfactchecking/comments/4nt6iw/donald_trump_republicans_are_dumb_why_did_this/

Edited September 21, 2020 by Markinsa
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[gregp]

3 minutes ago, Markinsa said:

 

Look on the bright side, that's all the left has.  Crap, no substance.

 

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Agreed.  Sad. 

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[boosterbglee]

Hilarious........candy man!

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