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History Lesson: Trump Claims His Administration Has Accomplished More Than Any Other?

President Trump recently addressed the United Nations. In his speech, he claimed that his administration accomplished more than any other President’s administration in US history: “In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country.” President Trump has developed somewhat of a reputation for hyperbole…

Andrew Pillow
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President Trump recently addressed the United Nations. In his speech, he claimed that his administration accomplished more than any other President’s administration in US history:

“In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country.”

President Trump has developed somewhat of a reputation for hyperbole and exaggeration…which is probably why the United Nations General Assembly quite literally laughed, at his claim. Many people, especially his detractors, will dismiss his claim outright as another one of his grandiose proclamations. But, being the history teacher that I am, I have a duty to at least attempt to be objective as I teach my students to do.

So, let’s actually take a minute to compare Trump’s major accomplishments to his well-known predecessors.

George Washington

  • Laid the foundation for the presidency
  • Set precedents around term limits and cabinet positions
  • Helped push through the Bill of Rights
  • Oversaw the birth of a new country.

Abraham Lincoln

  • Presided over the Civil War which maintained the Union
  • Issued the Emancipation Proclamation which freed the slaves

Franklin Roosevelt

  • Created the “New Deal” which is often credited with ending the Great Depression
  • Creating social security
  • Reformed the banking system.

Barack Obama

  • Pulled the country out of the Great Recession
  • Oversaw a bull run in the market which persists today
  • Pushed through marriage equality

Donald Trump

  • Continued economic growth
  • Repealed prior legislation

In comparison to his counterparts, Trump’s resume is almost objectively lacking. To be fair, he has only been president for “less than two years” however his claim that he’s accomplished more than anyone simply doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. Truthfully there are many Presidents not included on this list that would have a much better claim to that than Trump.

Of course, there is some selection bias in terms of what is included or excluded in the list of accomplishments, but considering how often Trump and his proponents cite his economy, it’s fair to say that’s seen as his biggest accomplishment.

Currently, President Trump is spending a lot of energy trying to undo Obama era legislation and playing hardball with China.

Continued economic growth is great but an inheriting 8-year bull market and building on it is not equal to pulling a country out of a depression. There have been no great precedents set during Trump’s term, no catastrophes averted, no landmark legislation passed or no great wars won.

Maybe he will do these things, but he hasn’t yet. This makes it hard to put him over the people who have, making President Trump’s claim shaky at best.

6 responses to “History Lesson: Trump Claims His Administration Has Accomplished More Than Any Other?”

  1. Craig Avatar
    Craig

    Ok this is not fair. A liberal writing this article would bash on Trump. Trump has accomplished a lot more than that. Be honest and quit being a liberal.

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  2. Jeremiah Louis Hollenbeck Avatar
    Jeremiah Louis Hollenbeck

    He developed a reputation for hyperbole and exaggeration? Exaggeration is the definition of hyperbole. Nice try

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  3. Doc Hodges Avatar
    Doc Hodges

    Thus is the most bias, dumpster fire of an article I have ever read. If you had bother to list even a tenth of the positive decisions Trump has made the other on your list would have voted for him too.

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    1. Laura Stevens Avatar
      Laura Stevens

      so list them

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    2. Michael Smith Avatar
      Michael Smith

      Such as? Shut down the government (taking the mantle/proud of the longest gov shutdown in history!), separated children at the border (no other president did that – as we are not Nazi Germany), Repeal and replace “Obamacare” – oh wait, just keep trying to repeal and not get it down when his party had all 3 branches – and of course – border wall….Uh, no funding and now its NOT being paid for by Mexico nor is it even a wall anymore – a barrier, fence, moat, etc. He is definitely THE greatest president ever! I almost forgot about the Mueller report, but since its not finished yet, we shall see how that goes. As a famous Republican president once said “Lock her up!”. If he really wanted to have her locked up, Hillary should have worked on the Trump campaign!

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      1. Eddie Stone Avatar
        Eddie Stone

        In just two short years, the president’s pro-growth economic policies have created 5.3 million new jobs, ushering in historically low unemployment for women, African-Americans, Asian-Americans and Latinos. But those aren’t the only ones benefiting from Trump’s bold leadership. Unemployment for Americans with disabilities and unemployment for veterans have also reached all-time lows.

        Today in America, 157 million people are working — more than at any time in our nation’s history — providing economic prosperity across demographics, especially for women, who are occupying 58 percent of new jobs.

        Despite the left’s vacuous talking points that the Democratic Party is the “party of women” and that it’s the party that champions minorities, it’s actually Republican-driven policies that have delivered results. No surprise that in the past 24 months, the current administration has been able to lift nearly 5 million Americans off food stamps while doubling the child tax credit.

        But that’s not all. Under the Trump administration, wages are up. The gross domestic product is robust, at 3 percent growth, and manufacturing jobs are back with a vengeance. The growth of manufacturing jobs is 714 percent higher than it was under the Obama administration — despite Barack Obama’s telling a steelworker union official during a 2016 town hall in Elkhart, Indiana, that some jobs “are just not going to come back” and then questioning at a campaign event whether then-candidate Trump had a magic wand to bring those jobs back. Turns out we didn’t need any fairy dust after all. Voters just needed to elect a jobs president such as Donald Trump, whose historic tax cuts and regulatory, trade and tariff reforms were the secret sauce in creating 600,000 manufacturing jobs in the past two years, revitalizing this withering sector.

        And then there’s our nation’s energy renaissance. For the first time ever, the United States is the No. 1 energy producer in the world. We’re a net exporter of energy, making us significantly less dependent on oil-producing nations — such as Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela — that don’t share our values.

        With health care, President Trump eliminated the unpopular Obamacare mandate penalty and led the passage of right-to-try legislation for critically ill patients while lowering the cost of prescription drugs. For context, last year drug prices had the single biggest decline in 46 years, benefiting our senior population most directly.

        On the foreign policy front, the current administration has decimated the Islamic State’s deadly caliphate, withdrawn from the disastrous Iranian nuclear deal and delivered on a long-standing promise to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. President Trump has also succeeded in getting many allied NATO nations to pay their fair share in military defense — an estimated $100 billion — benefiting U.S. taxpayers. No prior administration had the chutzpah to do that.

        And when it comes to criminal justice reform, the current administration passed once-in-a-generation legislation allowing for fairer sentencing of some drug offenders and giving many nonviolent drug offenders, who are disproportionately black, a second chance.

        With immigration, Trump is working night and day to secure our porous southern border from drug cartels, sex traffickers and other dangerous actors to keep the homeland safe. Obstructionist Democrats would rather open dozens of investigations against the president and his family than stop thugs and drugs from entering our communities.

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