@McGentrix,
I thought it pretty cowardly at the time. I mean this is the land where everyone is armed, right? All those guns keeping all those patriots safe from their government are apparently useless when it comes to defending the homeland from bloodthirsty terrorists? Just seemed kind of ironic.
Quote:Presidents campaign on stuff and then when they get the job, they find out they can't keep their promises. So far Trump has already kept more campaign promises than any President in US history and it's only been 2 weeks.
If all your promises amount to is a commitment (or threat) to withdraw from a treaty, pull out of a negotiated deal, or issue executive orders which reverse previous previous executive orders, well yeah, the president's been able to do a lot of the things he said he would do. But he promised to do those things
in order to achieve specific results.
For instance, "I'm going to repeal Obamacare on Day One." Sure, he signs an order...and the congressional Repubs still don't know what they're going to do, they're divided, they're lost. Now they're talking about "repair".
"I'm going to build a wall and Mexico is going to pay for it." He signs a peace of paper but once you get into specifics, well, things don't look that clear — you know, a lot of respected economists have real reservations about slapping a 20% tax on imports. We'll probably have to study this some more...
"And I'm going to ban Muslims." Yeah, not a direct quote, but you get my drift. He promises to stop the arrival of refugees and immigrants. The whole operation turns out to be poorly planned; different departments aren't informed, there was (and still is) lots of confusion, and the worldwide reaction has been extremely negative. I don't mind if he wants to close the border temporarily — I think he has that power — but it could have been thought through; it didn't have to become a manufactured crisis. Why not take some time and accomplish the same goal in an orderly manner, phasing in restrictions with plenty of warning, sorting out people with green cards, showing some effort to act diplomatically and look competent? Why drop a bomb?
Yes, he's kept a few promises, but that's just the visuals, the easy stuff, the low hanging fruit; they're meaningless without results. We'll need to look back in a few years and see what the
consequences of Trump's actions have been, whether he achieves his ends, or whether we'd all actually be better off if those promises had remained unfulfilled.