A different look at Trump ‘accomplishments’
A recent letter to the editor credited President Donald Trump with many things. Let’s take a quick look at some of those claims.
Stock market up 6.5 percent — it’s commonly accepted that presidents are not responsible for either increases or decreases in the stock market.
Added 298,000 jobs in his first month — really?
NATO spending $10 billion — maybe so, but how could he possibly be credited with that?
Neil Gorsuch to Supreme Court — true, but that was engineered by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Republican Senate after exercising the “nuclear option.”
Trump generated 1 million jobs — accurate numbers put that figure at around 317,000.
Building border wall and defeating ISIS — there is no wall and ISIS is far from defeated
Exiting the Paris accord and Trans Pacific Partnership — both true but those are considered accomplishments?
Met with foreign leaders across globe — that’s like saying he put in a 40-hour work week; that’s his job.
The other claims are so nonsensical it’s easy to see why Trump’s constituency is really clueless.
Paul Armstrong
Hilton Head Island
This story was originally published October 2, 2017 at 7:44 AM with the headline "A different look at Trump ‘accomplishments’."