“It’s better to start with low expectations. That way you have nowhere to go but up.”
That was one of the first lines delivered by Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live” back in 2015. Trump, who hosted the show, was playing President Donald Trump in a fabulously successful White House.
One year later Donald Trump stunned the political world in 2016 when he became the first person without government or military experience ever to be elected president of the United States. His four-year tenure in the White House revealed extraordinary fissures in American society but left little doubt that he is a figure unlike any other in the nation’s history.
SNL still mocked him during his presidency but everything that Trump said back in 2015 become a reality!
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This aired Nov 7, 2015 before he was taken seriously. The media hadn’t yet turned on him. As soon as it became apparent he’d be the nominee, everything changed.
Listening to the national media, one would think President Donald Trump has achieved little during his presidency. The media gives him credit for no accomplishments. The reality was totally different than the negative daily drumbeat of the liberal national media toward Trump.
Under Trump’s leadership, in 2018 the U.S. surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest producer of crude oil.
2. The Trump administration made a deal with the European Union to increase U.S. energy exports to Europe.
3. It withdrew the U.S. from the job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership, a major change in trade policy.
4. The Trump Administration secured $250 billion in new trade and investment deals in China and $12 billion in Vietnam.
5. It approved up to $12 billion in aid for farmers affected by unfair trade retaliation, but announced a total of $28 billion in aid for farmers in 2018 and 2019.
Other accomplishments include a dozen hostages freed, moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, initiating historic tax cut legislation for Opportunity Zones and fulfilling his campaign promise to improve the Veterans Administration, just to name a few.
Trump’s accomplishments are many, but you would never know listening to the Democrat-controlled liberal media. As far as they are concerned, none of these things happened.
Trump has achieved many of his goals, while surviving a corrupt impeachment investigation, hostility by a liberal press and a continuing pandemic of epic proportions.
OPINION: This article contains commentary which reflects the author’s opinion