@dneal
What made Trump a bad President (aside from the bombast)?
There are three main areas where I would assess his performance as substandard.
1. Policy making The majority of his policies, that he put his shoulder to, resulted in negative impact on the average person, the environment, businesses, and foreign relationships. Listing them here is a bit pointless, but we should all be aware of them by now. The people who most benefited were himself and anyone he thought would throw money his way. His least impactful policies are those where the substance of a policy remains more or less the same, but the name has changed. NAFTA is typical example.
1a. He rolled back or dismissed many of Obama's policies. Often not on their individual merits but rather only on their association with Obama. That is petty, and speaks to a lack of understanding.
2. His presentation to the public. This is not about bombast, which is used in varying degrees by a lot of people when selling themselves, but rather about his comportment during times and events that required a firm and reassuring hand on the tiller. He was unable to do that because he only has one volume setting. I don't necessarily blame him for not being a more versatile public speaker, but that doesn't give him a pass for not at least employing people who could smooth edges.
3. Staffing. It's hard to unpick sometimes whether he was just a really bad judge of the people he hired, or if the people hired were actually good at their jobs but were unnaturally restricted, ridiculed and then discarded because of his self-professed expertise in everything. There's a few obvious examples of both.
Overall, while I dislike his personality, and he cannot be excused for the awful business practices of his past, he is, in my considered opinion, the most corrupt President I've seen in my lifetime.
If you want to belittle my intelligence, reading ability, or any other of my character defects of which you are aware and I am not, go for it. The simple reality here is that this is a discussion thread for people of disparate backgrounds to talk about current events in US politics.
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