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Originally Posted by petch751
LOL what did Trump do that's so bad? Speak up for America? Beat Hillary? Want to allow the American people to keep more of their money? Want America first? What?
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- Ran his campaign on populist nationalism that included rabid racism, sexism and anti-immigrant sentiments.
- Put an actual white nationalist in his administration.
- Filled cabinet positions with wholly unqualified people likely because they were loyal to him, but also seemingly for the purpose of destroying the positions from the inside, such as the EPA, Education and HUD.
- Supported a wall at the Mexican border as a key campaign promise despite the fact that undocumented immigration had already been falling for years and based on the idea that Mexicans were rapists and murders. Promised that Mexico would pay for it, only to have one of Mexico's worst presidents ever completely embarrass him on the issue and now Trump is forced to ask Congress to pay for it instead with public money, something that may never even happen.
- Pushed a multi-nation ban on refugees/immigrants based on religion, an unconstitutional (and frankly, un-American) move that has been repeatedly smacked down by the courts. To top it off, not a single nation listed in the ban had ever had any of its citizens commit an attack on US soil.
- Has repeatedly embarrassed the nation and undermined its position with global allies.
- Bragged about sexually assaulting multiple women.
- Made fun of handicapped people.
- Has outwardly supported the Philippines' Duterte, a man responsible for over 7,000 extrajudicial murders and who "joked" that he would support his soldiers if they got caught raping women.
- Has outwardly supported Turkey's Erdogan, a man that has been steadily eroding personal liberties within the country and is essentially a dictator.
- Has outwardly supported France's Le Pen, leader of a political party that literally started as an offshoot of the Nazis and which continues to share many of those beliefs.
- Has stated he would be "honored" to meet North Korea's Un, a dictator that regularly murders his own family members.
- Passed EO's that weaken worker protections.
- Passed EO's that weaken sexual assault protections.
- Passed EO's that weaken environmental protections.
- Has bragged about the economy, but can't point to a single actual piece of legislation passed under his short presidency that has been responsible for it.
- Stated he supported LGBT protections and equality, and then removed Obama-era protections for trans people, and supported the states being able to pass discriminatory policies against them based on religion.
- Has had nearly his entire administration involved in investigations related to treason with a foreign power in what looks like might be the biggest US political scandal of all time, if not one of the world's.
- Has used the presidency to further his own financial interests.
- Has engaged in nepotism by putting family members in positions of power within the WH.
- Has engaged in a campaign of anti-science in terms of the environment and climate change in particular.
- Has repeatedly stroked violence against minorities.
- Continuously lies as a matter of policy, often on things that are easily proven to be false.
- Engaged in a campaign against the 1st Amendment, particularly against freedom of the press.
- Supported war crimes not just with Duterte, but by saying the US should kill the innocent family members of terrorists.
- Has built up a base of supporters so loyal that they refuse to question him on anything he does, a cult-like following so intense that it inevitably raises historical comparisons, none of which ended well for the nation in question.
- Repeatedly compromised national intelligence.
- Proposed a budget that would severely cut money to a wide array of programs that benefit Americans, particularly low-income families, the elderly, poor, single parents, the disabled, etc. all for another increase to the military when the US already spends more on defense than just about the entire West combined.
- Pushed for a health-care bill that would cut more than 20 million people from health insurance and would deny coverage for nearly anyone with a pre-existing condition.
How much more do you really need? There's so much more, but this should be more than enough. We've never had a president so blatantly un-American, never had one so corrupt, so ignorant, so compromised in the history of the United States. Nearly everything he does is unprecedented, but entirely in negative ways, that it's hard to state just how damaging and dangerous his presidency has been. Now, do I really expect you to take any of the above or more seriously? Not really. No doubt you'll respond in one of a couple ways- either deflect to Clinton or Obama or Democrats, or you'll suggest that all those things are either fake news or actually somehow positives. Still, the ever-growing list of disasters from Trump needs to be repeated again and again. There should never be normalization of any of it.
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