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Our President's Promises
He is accomplishing them at lightening speed!
The American Economy And Jobs:
1) Americans say jobs market best since 2001
2) Five years ago, Trump made a prediction on Twitter about housing. He nailed it.
3) Created over 500,000 new jobs.
4) Approved the Keystone XL Pipeline and Dakota Access Pipeline.
5) Reinvested in American energy independence.
6) Rescinded Obama-era, job-killing regulations, and anti-coal restrictions.
7) Signed the ‘Buy American, Hire American’ executive order.
8) Began re-negotiation of outdated, anti-American trade deals.
9) Rust Belt No More: Chemical Plants Bringing Manufacturing Jobs Back to Youngstown
10) President Trump Is Putting AMERICAN Steelworkers First
11) Foxconn was investing $10 billion in a plant in Wisconsin, bringing about 13,000 jobs with it
In President Trump’s first six months since the election and since his inauguration the US Stock Markets are at record highs and millions of Americans are benefitting in their retirement savings accounts.
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The DOW daily closing stock market average has risen 18% since the election on November 8th.(On November 9th the DOW closed at 18,332 – yesterday on July 19th the DOW closed at 21,641 for another all time stock market closing high).
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Since the election the DOW has set a new all time closing high one out of every four days the market is open!
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Since the Inauguration on January 20th the DOW is up 9%. (It was at 19,827 at January 20th.)
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The DOW took just 66 days to climb from 19,000 to above 21,000, the fastest 2,000 point run ever. The DOW closed above 19,000 for the first time on November 22nd and closed above 21,000 on March 1st.
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The DOW closed above 20,000 on January 25th and the March 1st rally matched the fastest-ever 1,000 point increase in the DOW at 24 days.
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On February 28th President Trump matched President Reagan’s 1987 record for most continuous closing high trading days when the DOW reached a new high for its 12th day in a row!
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The S&P 500 and the NASDAQ have both set new all-time highs during this period.
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The US Stock Market gained $4 trillion in wealth since Trump was elected!
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The S&P 500 also broke $20 Trillion for the first time in its history.
US Debt
As of today, the US Debt has decreased under President Trump since his inauguration by (-$103) Billion. (President Obama increased the US debt in his first 6 months more than $974 Billion or nearly $1 Trillion.) The difference between Presidents Trump and Obama is more than $1 Trillion.
Jobs
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics President Trump added a projected 1,027,000 jobs in his first six months (January through June 2017.) President Obama on the other hand lost more than 3,826,000 million jobs in his first six months.
Unemployment
Also according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics the unemployment rate since President Trump’s inauguration decreased from 4.8% to 4.4% (January through June 2017). The unemployment rate in January 2017 was 4.8% and by June it was down to 4.4%. Unemployment under President Obama on the other hand moved in the opposite direction. In his first six months as President the US unemployment rate increased each month from 7.8% in January 2009 to 9.5% by June of 2009.
Inflation
As noted earlier this week, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics the US inflation rate decreased to an eight month low in June to 1.6%. This is in part due to President Trump’s energy policies that are helping average Americans with cheaper gas and electricity.
Housing Sales
Housing sales are red-hot in the US right now. In 2011, houses for sale were on the market an average 84 days. This year, it’s just 45 days.
According to the US Census Bureau, there were nearly twice as many US housing sales in the past couple of months as there were under President Obama in 2009 during the same time period. (The annualized housing sales rate for May 2017 is reported at 610,000 where in 2009 this amount was only 376,000.)
Decrease in Regulations
One of the first things that President Trump did in office was to reduce the number or burdensome regulations put in place during the Obama era. In January President Trump signed his 2 for 1 executive order mandating that for every new regulation, two regulations needed to be revoked. Even far left Politico notes that significant new federal regulations since Trump’s inauguration have slowed to an almost total halt.
Regulations cost Americans and American companies money to implement and maintain. Reducing or halting regulations allows companies to spend their money on more prudent money making areas.
Other Results
The US Manufacturing Index soared to a 33 year high in President Trump’s first six months which was the best number since 1983 under President Reagan.
The Federal Reserve has increased interest rates three times since President Trump was elected into office in November. The Fed increased interest rates only once in Obama’s 8 Years prior to the increase after President Trumps winning the election in November.
During the 2016 presidential campaign then-candidate Donald Trump said that if voters would vote for him to end Obama’s job-killing economic policies the American economy could grow at 4 percent, maybe even more.
Obsessed as the establishment media is about fake news and lies about Russia, you’d never know that – thanks in large measure to President Trump’s deregulation and economic policies – we are rapidly closing-in Trump tweet on that 4 percent economic growth goal.
The Atlanta Federal Reserve's GDP Now forecast model, released yesterday, showed the U.S. economy is expected to grow at a 3.8 percent annualized pace in the second quarter based on a report that showed an increase in personal spending in April.
The latest second-quarter gross domestic product estimate was faster than the 3.7 percent clip calculated just five days ago on May 26, the Atlanta Fed said according to Reuters.
This trend has been building since March, when The Wall Street Journal’s Steven Russolillo reported that consumers said they felt better about the economy than they have in the past 17 years. Optimism among small-business owners has also surged since the election said Russolillo.
Meanwhile, NewsMax reports U.S. consumer spending recorded its biggest increase in four months in April and monthly inflation rebounded, pointing to firming domestic demand. Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, is likely to remain on solid ground in the wake of other reports yesterday that showed confidence among households still at lofty levels and strong gains in house prices in March reported Reuters.
A third report on Tuesday showed house prices increased 5.9 percent year-on-year in March. Rising house prices are also supporting consumption reported Reuters. Consumer spending is being boosted by a tightening labor market, which is gradually pushing up wages. Personal income rose 0.4 percent last month as wages jumped 0.7 percent. Savings were little changed at $759.1 billion last month.
Perhaps even more importantly, according to The Wall Street Journal’s AnnaMaria Andriotis, credit scores for U.S. consumers reached a record high this spring while the share of Americans deemed to be some of the riskiest borrowers hit a record low—a potential boon for lending and economic activity. Consumers’ improving fortunes reflect falling unemployment and continued economic growth said Andriotis. Combined those two factors bode well for future consumer spending as wage growth and increased borrowing power give consumers more spending power.
A month or so ago our friend, economist and Trump campaign economic advisor Stephen Moore, observed that “the one thing Washington is very good at is giving every excuse under the sun for why achievable things can't done.” As Moore noted, the left and even some academics on the right claim that 4 percent or greater economic growth “is a pipe dream.”
Moore recounted that CNNMoney asked leading economists about Trump's promise, and they found a strong consensus that 4 percent growth is "impossible, or at least highly unlikely." Even the 3 percent growth goal that Trump's budget team had projected was ridiculed.
"Experts" said Moore, point to a widely cited 2016 San Francisco Federal Reserve study that argues that the "new normal" is 1.5 to 1.75 percent GDP growth -- or less than half the post-World War II average pace of progress. Moore said many of his fellow economists are sounding as myopic as the legendary patent office official who once proclaimed that everything that could be invented had already been invented.
Stephen Moore was right, what the myopic economists hadn’t counted on was Donald Trump actually producing policies that would strengthen the demand side of the US economy; reducing immigration to increase wages and job security for American workers and reducing regulations to give small business the increased confidence necessary to stimulate employment, thereby putting more wage-earners into the market for goods and services.
Trump promises new petroleum pipeline to Mexico: ‘It’ll go right under the wall’
Mr. Trump ordered a wholesale review of U.S. nuclear energy policy, and directed the Treasury to review possible financing of overseas power-generation plants that run on American coal.
He also said the Department of Energy will approve two applications to export liquefied natural gas from facilities in Louisiana, and directed the Interior Department to create a new offshore oil-and-gas leasing program to oversee all energy exploration off America’s coasts. Those steps and others, the president said, will highlight how dramatically the country’s energy fortunes have changed.
“Many of us remember the long gas lines and the constant claims that the world was running out of oil and natural gas. Americans were told our nation could only solve our energy crisis by imposing draconian restrictions on energy production. But now we know that was all a big beautiful myth,” he said.
“We’re going to be an exporter,” Mr. Trump continued. “We will export American energy all over the world, all around the globe. These energy exports will create countless jobs for our people and provide true energy security to our friends, partners and allies all across the globe. But this full potential can only be realized when government promotes energy development … Instead of obstructing it like the Democrats.”
The president said the nation has “near limitless supplies of energy,” and he vowed that the U.S. will become truly energy independent under his watch. Indeed, the U.S. is now the world’s leading producer of natural gas and is No. 3 in the world in oil production — a dramatic turnaround from even a decade ago.
After 14 Year Ban, China Welcomes Back US Beef To Their Multibillion-Dollar Market
Participation in the food stamp program took a dive to the lowest level it has been in seven years, according to new data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
USDA statistics on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participation showed that 42,609,852 people in the U.S. took part in the food stamp program in fiscal year (FY) 2017, the lowest level it has been since 2010 when 40,302,000 people enrolled in the program.
Enrollment in the government program in 2013 swelled to 47.6 million, the highest amount it has ever been since the program’s inception. The increase in the number people receiving food stamps during that period can be attributed to the Obama administration’s effort to allow those with higher incomes to receive benefits. Enrollment in benefits increased by 70 percent from the year former President Barack Obama took office in 2008.
The fact that the President's business had to have things made in other countries to make a profit is proof that Obama's policies have been choking the life out of American businesses
I guess Liberals forget that corporations have investors that demand to turn certain profit...and to do that, the then citizen, Trump was forced to come up with a way to satisfy investors. The only way to do that was to leave the country. Liberals act like Trump was the only one forced to do that. It's called "outsourcing", “off-shoring”, and "inversions".
Many major companies have participated in tax inversions since President Obama took office. That trend continued to accelerate as President Obama ratcheted up the rhetoric and threatened harsher action against companies that dare to buck his high-tax priorities.
Companies 'Outsource' Because That's Where The Sales Are
https://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillmatthews/2012/07/20/companies-outsource-because-thats-where-the-sales-are/#7fbbb3d15e1c
I find it interesting that all of the media sources that now sing praises of the Obama administration weren't all that happy with his policies regarding outsourcing:
Obama Jobs Council Packed With Outsourcing Companies
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/12/obama-jobs-council-outsourcing_n_1666443.html
President Obama's Disingenuous Attack on Outsourcing
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/07/president-obamas-disingenuous-attack-on-outsourcing/259851/
21 reasons why I feel Obama has failed Progressives
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/4/25/1086488/-21-reasons-why-I-will-never-again-vote-for-Obama
Obama’s Jobs Council Fail. "The president’s feckless jobs council is set to expire this week. That might be for the best."
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/obama-jobs-council-expiration-jeffrey-immelt/
Now we get a "Twofer" Obamacare was outsourced. That's right, folks, the Obama administration outsourced jobs and paid with taxpayer funds.
http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/obamacare-outsourced-5499
The Obama team outsourced Healthcare.gov to big corporations that rang up large bills without delivering what they promised
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/21/obamacare-website-glitches-cgi-private-contractors
Then there's this.....
Poll: Most see Obama as a failure
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/220008-poll-most-americans-see-obama-as-a-failure
When you do your research, do it prior to 2015 so you can see the truth because everything was exactly the opposite of the rhetoric that is now being spewed. The Left avoids research and facts like Hillary avoids answering questions about Benghazi.
The 16 Most Important Steps To Understand The Stock Market - The stock market will always be a market filled with individuals making decisions about what to buy or sell on the basis of future expectations
https://www.valuentum.com/articles/20130225_2
Media Buries Trump’s Good Economic News
Obsessed as the establishment media is about fake news and lies about Russia, you’d never know that – thanks in large measure to President Trump’s deregulation and economic policies – we are rapidly closing-in Trump tweeton that 4 percent economic growth goal.
The Atlanta Federal Reserve's GDP Now forecast model, released yesterday, showed the U.S. economy is expected to grow at a 3.8 percent annualized pace in the second quarter based on a report that showed an increase in personal spending in April.
The latest second-quarter gross domestic product estimate was faster than the 3.7 percent clip calculated just five days ago on May 26, the Atlanta Fed said according to Reuters.
This trend has been building since March, when The Wall Street Journal’s Steven Russolillo reported that consumers said they felt better about the economy than they have in the past 17 years. Optimism among small-business owners has also surged since the election said Russolillo.
Meanwhile, NewsMax reports U.S. consumer spending recorded its biggest increase in four months in April and monthly inflation rebounded, pointing to firming domestic demand.
Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, is likely to remain on solid ground in the wake of other reports yesterday that showed confidence among households still at lofty levels and strong gains in house prices in March reported Reuters.
A third report on Tuesday showed house prices increased 5.9 percent year-on-year in March. Rising house prices are also supporting consumption reported Reuters.
Consumer spending is being boosted by a tightening labor market, which is gradually pushing up wages. Personal income rose 0.4 percent last month as wages jumped 0.7 percent. Savings were little changed at $759.1 billion last month.
Perhaps even more importantly, according to The Wall Street Journal’s AnnaMaria Andriotis, credit scores for U.S.
consumers reached a record high this spring while the share of Americans deemed to be some of the riskiest borrowers hit a record low—a potential boon for lending and economic activity. Consumers’ improving fortunes reflect falling unemployment and continued economic growth said Andriotis. Combined those two factors bode well for future consumer spending as wage growth and increased borrowing power give consumers more spending power.
A month or so ago our friend, economist and Trump campaign economic advisor Stephen Moore, observed that “the one thing Washington is very good at is giving every excuse under the sun for why achievable things can't done.” As Moore noted, the left and even some academics on the right claim that 4 percent or greater economic growth “is a pipe dream.”
Moore recounted that CNNMoney asked leading economists about Trump's promise, and they found a strong consensus that 4 percent growth is "impossible, or at least highly unlikely."
Even the 3 percent growth goal that Trump's budget team had projected was ridiculed. "Experts" said Moore, point to a widely cited 2016 San Francisco Federal Reserve study that argues that the "new normal" is 1.5 to 1.75 percent GDP growth -- or less than half the post-World War II average pace of progress. Moore said many of his fellow economists are sounding as myopic as the legendary patent office official who once proclaimed that everything that could be invented had already been invented.
Stephen Moore was right, what the myopic economists hadn’t counted on was Donald Trump actually producing policies that would strengthen the demand side of the US economy; reducing immigration to increase wages and job security for American workers and reducing regulations to give small business the increased confidence necessary to stimulate employment, thereby putting more wage-earners into the market for goods and services.
American Security And Border Related Issues:
Reduced border-crossing rates to the lowest in 17 years. Illegal immigration is down almost 70% under President Trump.
Border Wall Prototypes Show Trump Is Keeping His Word
House GOP allocates $1.6 billion for Trump border wall in 2018
Initiated a crackdown on sanctuary cities.
The Cost of a Border Wall vs. the Cost of Illegal Immigration
Based on the NAS data, illegal border-crossers create an average fiscal burden of approximately $74,722 during their lifetimes, excluding any costs for their U.S.-born children. If a border wall stopped between 160,000 and 200,000 illegal crossers — 9 to 12 percent of those expected to successfully cross in the next decade — the fiscal savings would equal the $12 to $15 billion cost of the wall. President trump is making Mexico pay for the wall by returning their own citizens to them.
Among the findings:
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There is agreement among researchers that illegal immigrants overwhelmingly have modest levels of education — most have not completed high school or have only a high school education.
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There is also agreement that immigrants who come to America with modest levels of education create significantly more in costs for government than they pay in taxes.
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A recent NAS study estimated the lifetime fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) of immigrants by education. Averaging the cost estimates from that study and combining them with the education levels of illegal border-crossers shows a net fiscal drain of $74,722 per illegal crosser.
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The above figures are only for the original illegal immigrants and do not include any costs for their U.S.-born descendants. If we use the NAS projections that include the descendants, the fiscal drain for border-crossers grows to $94,391 each.
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If a border wall prevented 160,000 to 200,000 illegal crossings (excluding descendants) in the next 10 years it would be enough to pay for the estimated $12 to $15 billion costs of the wall.
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Newly released research by the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) done for the Department of Homeland Security indicates that 170,000 illegal immigrants crossed the border successfully without going through a port of entry in 2015. While a significant decline in crossings from a decade ago, it still means that there may be 1.7 million successful crossings in the next decade. If a wall stopped just 9 to 12 percent of these crossings it would pay for itself.
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If a wall stopped half of those expected to successfully enter illegally without going through a port of entry at the southern border over the next 10 years, it would save taxpayers nearly $64 billion — several times the wall's cost.
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In addition to crossing the border surreptitiously, aliens join the illegal population primarily by overstaying a temporary visa. A southern border wall would not address this part of the illegal flow.
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A large share of the net fiscal cost of illegal immigrants is at the state and local level, not the federal level. The costs of building the wall will be borne by the federal government.
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To create its long-term fiscal estimates for immigrants by education level, the NAS uses the concept of "net present value" (NPV). This concept, which is commonly used by economists, has the effect of reducing the size of the net fiscal drain that unskilled immigrants will create in the future. The NAS does this because costs or benefits years from now are valued less in economics relative to more immediate costs. But this means the actual net lifetime fiscal cost of illegal border-crossers, given their education levels, is possibly $140,000 to $150,000 each in their lifetimes if the NPV concept is not used.
Border Patrol Captures 13 Fugitives, Seizes $5.2 Million In Drugs Over July 4 Weekend
Launched military airstrikes against Syria after the use of chemical weapons.
Slapped new sanctions on Iran.
Asked Congress to increase the national security budget by over $54 billion.
Trump Signs Two Bills Providing Aid to Veterans, Law Enforcement
ISIS chief in Afghanistan killed in April raid, US military says
Trump Delivers on Promise to Cut Immigration: Refugees Admitted to US Drops by 50 Percent
Construction on Trump's border wall to begin by September!
In one move, Donald Trump has made more progress in Syria than Barack Obama did in six years
Trump administration sends ‘feds,’ 20 ATF agents to Chicago
House passes toughest illegal immigration crackdown in two decades
Making American Government Work, Making America Great Again:
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Created an opioid abuse and addiction committee.
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Instituted a five-year lobbying ban to end corruption.
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TRUMP EXPOSES OBAMA’S INCOMPETENCE: Cuts EPA Budget…Still Fixes Flint’s Water Crisis.
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Expanded healthcare options to US Veterans.
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Negotiated savings over the F-35 military contract, saving taxpayers over $700 million.
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Nominated and Confirmed Judge Neil Gorsuch to the United States Supreme Court.
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Trump Showed The World No President Can Unilaterally Commit US To Far-Reaching Agreements!
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TRUMP DRIVES CRITICS CRAZY: Eliminates Obama’s Czars…Pays Female Staffers More Than Men…Saves Taxpayers Millions!
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Trump’s EPA Grants Flint $100 Million To Fix Broken Water System.
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The President has signed around 150 executive orders, memoranda and proclamations as of July 19th, 2017.
Foreign Policy:
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Trump's warning to Syria on chemical weapons worked, Jim Mattis says.
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Media misses point of Trump ending Obama's CIA program arming terrorists.
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NATO announced Allied spending is up $10 Billion because of President Trump.
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President Trump and his beautiful family visited leaders around the world. In his first foreign trip as President he went to Saudi Arabia and gave one of the most historic speeches in US history. The President implored the Muslim leaders of 50 countries to get rid of terrorists in their countries and “drive them out“. No world leader had ever done this!
As a result, the President sided with the leaders of these countries including Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan against terrorism, ISIS and Iran.
In addition to all this, the President has met with many foreign leaders from across the globe on numerous trips and he invited others to his place in Florida, Mar-a-Lago, including Xi from China, Abe from Japan, etc.
RESULTS OF POLAND VISITS......
WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA YOU GOT:
Polish Foreign Minister, Radek Sikorski, tweeted Tuesday night about Obama saying, "Polish death camps" and not Nazi death camps: "White House apologizes for outrageous blunder. PM Tusk will take his position in the morning. It's a shame that this important ceremony was overshadowed by ignorance and incompetence."
WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP YOU GOT:
Polish Foreign Minister, Witold Waszczykowski, emphasized that ‘it was with great admiration that he listened to extensive knowledge about the Polish history’. According to Waszczykowski, a historical element was embraced firmly and adequately. ‘Indeed, we have sought for years such interpretation of the history".
Polish President Andrzej Duda: 'Fight fake news' after Trump handshake snub reports."Contrary to some surprising reports my wife did shake hands with Mrs. and Mr. Trump @POTUS after a great visit. Let's FIGHT FAKE NEWS."
Veterans:
Top officials at New Hampshire veterans hospital removed
Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin has removed two top officials at New Hampshire's only veterans hospital and has ordered a review of the facility.
President Donald Trump signed a bipartisan supported act into law Friday that will increase protections for whistleblowers at the Department of Veteran Affairs and make it easier to fire wrongdoers.
“Thank you President Trump and [Veteran Affairs Secretary David Shulkin] for ensuring that we receive the care we need and deserve,” Sergeant Michael Verardo, who lost a leg in Afghanistan and faced lengthy waiting times said at a White House signing ceremony.
Improving the scandal-ridden VA was a campaign promise of President Trump’s. He said in a September campaign speech that “our veterans, in many cases, are being treated worse than illegal immigrants.”
Trump stated at the signing ceremony that his administration is “just getting started” at improving the agency. The president said that the U.S. has a duty to help veterans and that “we will never forget what you all did for us, never.”
Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin stated on June 7, 2017 that improving the Department of Veterans Affairs was a "top priority" for the Trump Administration. [39][40] Shulkin, a holdover from the Obama Administration, admitted that the Trump Administration was "quicker" and "more decisive" than the previous one. [41]
Fourth of July:
President Trump is going to spend Independence Day at the White House with some of our fine military and their families for a night that they will never forget.
Flashback and now:
Obama:
“God, this holiday sucks! All this 'national pride shit' gets on my nerves.” “You’d think we’d stop celebrating the birth of the worst imperial power in history? But nooooo…! We have to do this flag-waving bullshit every year,” Obama muttered more as he made his way from the podium. “...I can’t believe I have to miss a good day of golf for this crap!” “...Could have been at Oakmont with Jay-Z now, trying out that new Callaway set Alec (Baldwin) gave me last year... Damn, this day sucks!”
President Trump:
The president addressed individual members of each of the service branches who had gathered outside in early evening for his first Independence Day address before the annual fireworks celebration on the National Mall.
“There is no place I would rather be than with you,” he said to the majority-military audience. "Each of you here today represents that rare combination of patriotism, virtue and courage that our citizens have always, and I mean always, admired and that our enemies have always feared," Trump said. "I pledge my unwavering support for you, your families and your missions. I will always have your back." "At this moment, your brothers and sisters in arms are posted around the globe, fighting our enemies and standing watch to protect our nation. They're fighting for us. We are thanking them, praying for them, and saluting them for their selfless sacrifice."
Promises Made
Impressive Achievements
Trump on new poll results: 'Would still beat Hillary'
New Poll - Trump Would Now Win Popular Vote
Trump campaign reports fundraising surge, says Americans still stand with president
AS TRUMP’S POPULARITY SOARS ABROAD…Village In India Renames Itself “Trump” [VIDEO]
No buyer’s remorse: Trump backers stand strong, fault Congress for shortcomings
Rasmussen: 50 Percent Of Likely Voters Give Trump The Thumbs Up
Media Buries Trump’s Good Economic News
Texas AG: Trump Has Done More To Stop Illegal Immigration Than Any Other In World History
US seeks to dismiss foreign payments lawsuit against Trump
70 Percent Of Voters Say Trump Shouldn’t Be Investigated For Obstruction; Over 2 Million Votes
CNN ran a poll on their website and didn’t talk about it publicly or on their TV network probably because they are embarrassed by the results.
The CNN panel looked to be surprised and ecstatic at the same time when they were talking about the job numbers and unemployment number dipping to 4.4 percent.
HILARIOUS! TRYING TO GIVE OBAMA ALL THE CREDIT LMAO! THEY ARE PATHETIC! I guess they forgot "[Economist and former Secretary of State] Larry Summers, Obama's economist, has been running around saying 2 percent is the best we can do." NICE TRY CLINTON'S CURSE NETWORK!
President Trump will join 13 Presidents -- several ranked great or near-great by historians -- who were never in uniform: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Grover Cleveland, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In the post-Revolutionary period, Jefferson and the two Adamses could hardly be accused of lacking character or trust -- anti-Clinton phrases heard in 1992. Although Taft did not wear brass, he did serve as a Secretary of War, and while Franklin Roosevelt was neither a midshipman nor admiral, he had been an Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Cleveland Paid to Avoid War
If anyone could have been vulnerable on grounds of avoiding military service, it was Cleveland. During the Civil War, he was drafted but instead of leaving his law practice, he bought his way out by paying $150 to a substitute, a perfectly legal option under the Conscription Act of 1863. Cleveland's "draft dodging" was not an issue when he was elected the 22d and 24th President. As Allan Nevins wrote, "He was completely lacking in martial spirit."
By far the President with the toughest role as Commander in Chief was Abraham Lincoln. The breakup of the Union meant that the Confederacy's guns at times were within shelling distance of the capital. Lincoln took charge boldly, prodding his generals into action, dismissing one after another who were incapable of commanding the Army of the Potomac. Halfway through the Civil War, Lincoln's own leadership led to his choice of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant to lead the Union forces.
What military experience did Lincoln bring to Commander in Chief? His own last rank was private in the Illinois militia. He enlisted in a company of volunteers to halt a tribe of Indians who were on the warpath in the state, was elected captain and was reprimanded twice (for failing to stop his men from stealing liquor and getting drunk, and for discharging a weapon in camp). Then, after 30 days, he re-enlisted as a private for 20 days in another company and, when his time was up, again enlisted as a private for 30 days as an intelligence scout. In less than three months of military service, for which he earned $125, the only action he saw, as he later said, was against mosquitoes. Lincoln's Antiwar Views.
Furthermore, Lincoln's anti-military views were delivered in the House of Representatives when he was a Congressman strongly opposed to the war against Mexico in 1848. He called military glory "that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood -- that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy."
Future Presidents had notable Civil War records, particularly Grant. In addition, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur and Benjamin Harrison all had once held the rank of brigadier or major general. (Andrew Johnson served as military governor of Tennessee before Lincoln chose him as his running mate in 1864.) The last of the Civil War officers in the White House was William McKinley, who had gone from private to brevet major and then, as President, was Commander in Chief of the "splendid little war" against Spain -- an imperial American war that brought fame and the Presidency to Col. Theodore Roosevelt.
Franklin Roosevelt's death near the end of World War II led a World War I Army major, Vice President Harry S. Truman, into the Oval Office to complete the job and make the controversial decision to drop nuclear bombs Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, a professional soldier, became the unbeatable war hero who made his reputation as an Allied commander in World War II. But scholars do not place him in the top rank of peacetime Presidents.
The postwar Presidents -- John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald Reagan and George Bush -- all were young officers in World War II (Jimmy Carter served in the Navy after the war). None held high rank. Mr. Reagan served with a Hollywood movie unit, hardly preparation for a real war room. Mr. Carter, an Annapolis graduate, was probably best trained to be a modern Commander in Chief.
Most American Presidents never had to send armies into battle. With the end of the cold war, Mr. Clinton's immediate challenge may well be different as Commander in Chief: to wind down costly military programs and contribute to international peacekeeping forces. Avoiding small wars in troubled corners of the world may be as much of a test of leadership for the new Commander in Chief as sending in the Marines.
Other presidents who could have fought during wars, but didn't, include William Jefferson Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama.
Clinton:
The curse of Vietnam echoes anew through American politics. The war tore the country apart a generation ago when the body bags were coming home. Now it reverberates in the New Hampshire Presidential primary campaign with intimations that Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas dodged the draft in some devious way.
Voters have good reason to examine this issue. Whether or not one accepts the propriety of delving into Governor Clinton's private life, there can be no doubt about the legitimacy of asking how a public official behaved during the Vietnam years; the question provides an illuminating test.
On present evidence, Bill Clinton worked to avoid the draft, at times cleverly, but in ways that accorded with accepted common practice among others of his generation. Against that history, this Vietnam echo looks like an irrelevance that ought not distract New Hampshire voters from judging Bill Clinton on his merits.
The questioning centers on the fall of 1969 when Bill Clinton was headed back to England to complete a Rhodes Scholarship. It seemed unlikely that his draft board would defer him again. He tried and failed to win Navy or Air Force commissions that might have sent him to Vietnam, though not as a grunt soldier. Then he signed up for a Reserve Officer program that kept him out of the draft.
A few weeks later, on Oct. 31, his draft board, having learned he had changed his mind about R.O.T.C., reclassified him 1-A, theoretically exposing him to call-up. Only on Dec. 1, when his birth date came up 311 in the brand new draft lottery, was he safe against worry.
He may have felt safe even during that exposed November. Draft calls had been reduced and graduate-student deferments were about to be restored. Taken in isolation, the Clinton record could thus be read to show manipulation and delay. But in fairness, his behavior needs to be compared with that of his peers.
Vice President Dan Quayle provides an apposite example. He was able to join the Indiana National Guard; otherwise he would have risked the draft. In the crazy time of 1969, other young men found themselves suddenly drawn to divinity school or defense industries. Desperate potential draftees drank their own blood to feign ulcers and gorged on licorice stew because that was supposed to elevate blood pressure. Still others sought refuge in Canada -- or went to prison.
Bill Clinton, who despised the Vietnam War "with a depth of feeling I had reserved solely for racism," may or may not have exposed himself to actual risk of induction. But to single him out as some sort of devious draft-dodger does him, and the anguish of Vietnam, an injustice.
Obama:
The Obama era is over. Here's how the military rates his legacy
More than half of troops surveyed in the latest Military Times/Institute for Veterans and Military Families poll said they have an unfavorable opinion of Obama and his two-terms leading the military. About 36 percent said they approve of his job as commander in chief.
Trump:
Military Poll: Troops Backing Trump By 3-to-1 Margin Over Clinton