The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump still hasn't revealed his healthcare plan.

In the weeks leading to the election, he is resorting to a flurry of executive actions to try to make it appear he has a plan.



Trump Preps Health Orders as Opponents Demand Obamacare Plan

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"Democrats – including presidential nominee Joe Biden – have warned that a more conservative court could strike down Obamacare, jeopardizing insurance coverage for millions of people. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has mocked Trump in recent weeks, saying in a tweet that the president “keeps promising his magic healthcare plan is right around the corner.”

An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday found that by 20 points -- 51%-31% -- voters say Biden would better handle health care.

Trump said Sept. 15 in a town hall event hosted by ABC News that his Obamacare replacement is “all ready,” but there’s been no sign of it. Instead, the administration has been preparing a flurry of executive actions."

 

Other than the economy for which RCP averages show an approval near 50% in 2020, which is mediocre in itself, Trump has approval ratings in the 30's and 40's percent range for the other modalities such a race relations, healthcare, international relations, workers' rights, human rights, immigration, and the environment..

Other presidents have produced the same or higher approval ratings as Trump for the economy and at the same time have had much higher ratings than his for the other modalities.

Trump supporters have developed an extreme functional fixedness on him, thinking that he is the only person who can handle the job when in fact he has handled it poorly when considering all of the modalities upon which presidents are rated.

 

When Trump announced his candidacy in June 2015, he was talking like his healthcare plan was just around the corner.

Since early 2020 he has talked about the coronavirus as if a cure is just around the corner.

 

If you really think the stock market is indicative of the economy, you show your ignorance.

 

Yeah, illegal metsicans made up the 3 million votes. . . . .

 

It's hard to take PRIDE in our Great Country with a sleazebag like him currently at the helm, but I keep in mind "This too shall pass."

 

What Will the Economy Do in 2020 and Beyond?

Living in the past are we? Your profile of the economy is woefully incomplete, to the point that you might be suspected of willful deception. We're well into 2020, so your first chart is nostalgia. Where are the chart showing the usual measures of economic health: GDP and employment? The U.S. The US economy contracted at a 31.7% annual rate in the second quarter (April through June), its worst drop on record. GDP growth is expected to contract by 3.7% in 2020. The unemployment rate is expected to average 7.6%--compared with 7.8% when Obama took office during the recession in 2008. The stock market is having its ups and downs, down today, really down earlier in the week. What Will the Economy Do in 2020 and Beyond?

 

It's rare to hear a public statement by McConnell that sounds like a repudiation of Trump.


'There will be an orderly transition': McConnell dismisses Trump's refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power

 

Trump thought his insulting remarks related to military people wouldn't affect their support for him.


More Than 200 Retired Generals, Admirals Endorse Biden

 

Trump has difficult talking in a sequence of complete sentences.

Trump is apparently trying to say that he thinks the mail-in ballots will cost him the election. If he can force them to not be counted, he thinks he will win. Then the issue about transfer of power is moot because there is no need for a transfer for an incumbent who wins reelection.


Trump remark: " get rid of the ballots and you'll have a very trans- -- we'll have a very peaceful -- there won't be a transfer, frankly; there'll be a continuation."

 

Trump booed as he pays respects to Ginsburg at court - CNNPolitics

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"Emerging at the top of the Supreme Court steps on Thursday, President Donald Trump heard something he doesn't often hear -- at least directed toward him: booing.

"Vote him out," crowds began chanting when Trump appeared before the flag-draped coffin containing the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last week after a long bout with cancer.

With his face concealed behind a mask -- another rarity for the President, who does not often wear one in public -- Trump glanced over to where the crowd had gathered nearby. His wife, first lady Melania Trump, looked straight ahead.

The chants grew louder as the Trumps stood before the coffin, framed by massive Corinthian columns. After a few moments standing silently, the pair returned to their limousine and drove back to the White House. Outside the Oval Office, Trump was seen in animated conversation with top aides, including chief of staff Mark Meadows."

 

1:30 - jeers and chants of "vote him out"

 

They forgot to shout "lock him up".

 

I saw the interview. It wasn't an "In Case" situation, it was a "she will throw out the ballots" situation. He wants to deny Americans from participation in elections.

 

Trump mistakenly thought that money from a sale of TikTok that he invoked could go directly to the U.S. Treasury. He also suggested that he wanted $5 billion of it to go to 'patriotic education'.

It's another one of his quid pro quo attempts.


Trump Wants $5 Billion From TikTok Deal to Go to ‘Patriotic Education’

 

Trump has a long history of quid pro quo type behavior. He used it at various times in Palm Beach as a tactic for trying to get what he wanted from the city. He was caught using it on Ukraine and was impeached for it.

He likes to add on demands to ongoing deals. He used the DACA recipients of a way of trying to coerce Congress to obtain U.S. taxpayer money for his wall and failed. He put draconian demands on curtailing immigration after trying to bargain using DACA as a chip and failed.

 

A negotiator who worked on trying to convince David Koresh to surrender at his compound stated that it seemed like they were finally closing a deal after a long standoff. After many potential deals, at the last moment Koresh would always put one more demand on the table. The negotiator said that after a long period of wrangling it became clear that Koresh wasn't going to compromise.

Trump uses the same tactic to try to obtain what he wants. Although it seemed to work for him at times in his private business life, he isn't very good at it in the context of national governance.

With the election looming, the general public and those in DC (even Mitch McConnell) are expressing concern about Trump behaving like Koresh holed up in his compound and unwilling to leave.