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Give Trump a Grade on His Second Term

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AggiesAreWe

AggiesAreWe

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3 minutes ago, bullets13 said:

KFDM has a poll up, and it got me curious. What letter grade do you give Trump this term, and why? I'll give mine in a bit when I have a few minutes.

Will the grade be on a curve?

Asking for the far.

UT alum

UT alum

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2 hours ago, bullets13 said:

KFDM has a poll up, and it got me curious. What letter grade do you give Trump this term, and why? I'll give mine in a bit when I have a few minutes.

I give him a D.  Dishonest, Disloyal, Divisive, Derogatory, Distrustful, Disgraceful, Disingenuous. 

TheMissingBand

TheMissingBand

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Well, I saw Trump appear in a commercial for this on Fox News, so… I guess he’s got nothing better to do  

This is the hidden content, please

 

I’m trying to be objective, even though I can’t stand the guy. I think I’d give him a solid “D,” mostly because we haven’t had any of our boys coming home in boxes, yet.  Also glad that he stopped the flood of “asylum seekers” that the Dems were letting flood through the Southern border.  The stock market is performing very bubblicious, too.  
 

Otherwise, I think it’s been a disaster.  Coverups, masked agents killing US Citizens, a disastrous tariff policy, ballooning debt, hostile actions towards other countries sovereignty (Venezuela), promising to take Greenland, filing lawsuit after lawsuit against his “enemies,” political prosecutions, pending invasion of Iran, but more importantly he’s being more mean, ugly, childish, petty, etc, etc…. He’s a rotten person and good people shouldn’t continue to overlook his flaws because “he’s on our side.”  I’m firmly convinced that the corruption uncovered after he leaves office will be unlike anything we’ve ever seen. 

thetragichippy

thetragichippy

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5 minutes ago, TheMissingBand said:

he’s being more mean,

I was going to comment on your "political prosecutions" comment because you blindly ignored Biden's 4 years....but the more mean comment......really lol

TheMissingBand

TheMissingBand

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7 minutes ago, thetragichippy said:

I was going to comment on your "political prosecutions" comment because you blindly ignored Biden's 4 years....but the more mean comment......really lol

There’s never been a less dignified president. There’s never been a president that displayed the boorish behaviors that Trump does.  There’s never been a more divisive president.  It’s not a surprise that people keep trying to kill him… he exhibits and invites hatred at every opportunity.  There’s never been an outgoing president that tried to stop the transfer of power like he did with fake electors and baseless claims of election fraud.  He’s no longer even trying to hide his racism. 
 

Does anybody expect tonight’s state of the Union to be anything less than a banquet of wild exaggeration, outright lies, and hateful speech?

 

Plus I don’t like him. 

UT alum

UT alum

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19 minutes ago, thetragichippy said:

I was going to comment on your "political prosecutions" comment because you blindly ignored Biden's 4 years....but the more mean comment......really lol

You play a mean game of whatabout.

TheMissingBand

TheMissingBand

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19 minutes ago, thetragichippy said:

Which makes your complaints more entertaining. 

 

I think my biggest problem is with him, but a close second is with people who still support him in spite of everything.  
 

It’s EXACTLY like those people that were saying “Barack Obama is the best President we’ve ever had!” No, sir… you just like him the most.   
 

The Trump effect on local politics has been disastrous.  The Republican Party of Orange County now loudly endorses the Republican candidates that they support, to the detriment of the other candidates who are seeking to be Republican candidate in November. It’s just wrong, and it comes back to Trump weighing in on Republican races across the country.  Trump should not be selecting our local representation based on who can provide the largest donation to Trump’s own campaign.  The price for a Trump endorsement in the local race for state rep in 2024 was $400k, according to someone I know personally whose donors couldn’t afford it. They lost, btw.  Paxton is angry right now that Trump won’t endorse him over Cornyn.  He says it’s because Cornyn is squandering R resources in the primary, when in fact he’s just mad that he’s already made his contribution, but Trump is trying to get donations from everybody before he anoints the guy who will face off against the Dem senate candidate in November.  
 

But mostly I hate what it’s done to the way that campaigns react to one another, and the way that the supporters of candidates act towards other candidates. The name-calling, insults, hateful rhetoric, and outright lies are just on a completely different level in the last ten years. It’s not all on Trump, but he certainly started it.  Every county around ours has at least one race that’s a complete disaster of horrible behavior, mud-slinging, name-calling, etc.  Every political post made by a candidate is immediately besieged by his opponent’s supporters. Charges of corruption, etc, fly around with no regard for the truth, only in being hateful to their “enemy.”  And the nutty thing is that this is in the primary, when we’re all supposed to be on the same team, just trying out for the same position… but people today see it as a blood sport.  It’s always been unpleasant under the surface, but now it’s pure hatred on public display. 
 

The DOJ hung a giant banner on their building last week that featured Trump with an angry scowl. In the past, Presidents and the DOJ at least tried to to pretend that there wasn’t any interference between the White House and the DOJ.  They were supposed to be independent… not anymore.  A CNN correspondent complained that the act of hanging a trump banner from the DOJ headquarters strongly indicates that the DOJ serves Trump, not justice.  Trump didn’t deny it, he retweeted the CNN story as if to say “yeah, I did it … and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

What the right forgets is that things WILL go back the other way. It always does. And when it does, everything that is being done now will be turned around on the Rs and done even harder.  And with trumps approval ratings hovering in the mid thirties, it’s going to be a nasty. I’m afraid that a lot of people are going to find out that the juice wasn’t worth the squeeze. 

UT alum

UT alum

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1 hour ago, bullets13 said:

not going to lie, I was more curious to hear from his supporters, who're being surprisingly quiet right now. 

KFDM showed out of 22,000+ votes, 33%gave him an A. 47% gave him an F. Since Sinclair owns KFDM, I don’t think the numbers are rigged.

LumRaiderFan

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57 minutes ago, thetragichippy said:

Border - A++  (Giving ++ because Biden claimed he needed Congress to fix the border)

Crime - A 

Economy - C+

Foreign Policy - B+

Overall - B ++

 

Would pretty much agree with this. I would give him an A+ on the border and crime.

thetragichippy

thetragichippy

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8 minutes ago, UT alum said:

KFDM showed out of 22,000+ votes, 33%gave him an A. 47% gave him an F. Since Sinclair owns KFDM, I don’t think the numbers are rigged.

Cannot always believe news polls - Based on the success Trump had in 2016 and 2024, Trumps polling systems are much more accurate than what we see.....and my guess is the Democrats internal polling is probably just as accurate, but either side would not admit they are losing. 

thetragichippy

thetragichippy

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23 minutes ago, TheMissingBand said:

And with trumps approval ratings hovering in the mid thirties, it’s going to be a nasty.

Right now real clear politics has Trump at 42.7 as of yesterday. As a comparison, Bush was at 41.3 and Obama at 44.2.  Don't get your hopes up that Trump is going to fail..

Democrats ripping speeches his last term and this time boycotting the State of the union....only helps Trump btw 

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