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According to the editorial staff at Bloomberg, Donald Trump’s first two years of being president has been nothing short of a disaster filled with broken promises and failed policies.
In a report card compiled by various contributors, the president was rated using 13 metrics and flopped in nine of them with four receiving what can best be described as a “gentleman’s C’s.”
According to the report, the same expert contributors were asked to go back to metric standards they proposed at the beginning of Trump’s administration and see how he has fared.
In a word, Trump has done “poorly.”
Leading off, contributor Jonathan Bernstein pointed out that Trump’s approval rating has plummeted and his numbers are, in fact, “historically bad.”
“Trump’s first year was a public opinion disaster — he was almost always the lowest-ranked president, sometimes even moving up a bit higher as we reached a point in their presidencies where one of his predecessors had slumped,” Bernstein wrote, adding Trump’s approval had edged up, only to take a drop again due to his disastrous 35-day government shutdown.
Trump also took hits from the experts for a collapsing stock market that has angered Wall Street, and for increasing the deficit (“Trump has the dubious distinction of being the first leader among the Group of Seven –Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, U.K., U.S. — to see the deficit widen on his watch as a percentage of gross domestic product during a synchronized global expansion.”).
The president was also called out for boasting he would “get U.S. multinational corporations to bring back their foreign cash piles,” which has mostly been a failure.
While giving Trump credit for spurring growth in manufacturing jobs, Bloomberg’s Conor Sen writes that the Rust Belt — where Trump was surprisingly strong in the 2016 presidential election — has seen little job gains, which could endanger his 2020 presidential prospects
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https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/tr...o-years-office/?utm_source=push_notifications
In a report card compiled by various contributors, the president was rated using 13 metrics and flopped in nine of them with four receiving what can best be described as a “gentleman’s C’s.”
According to the report, the same expert contributors were asked to go back to metric standards they proposed at the beginning of Trump’s administration and see how he has fared.
In a word, Trump has done “poorly.”
Leading off, contributor Jonathan Bernstein pointed out that Trump’s approval rating has plummeted and his numbers are, in fact, “historically bad.”
“Trump’s first year was a public opinion disaster — he was almost always the lowest-ranked president, sometimes even moving up a bit higher as we reached a point in their presidencies where one of his predecessors had slumped,” Bernstein wrote, adding Trump’s approval had edged up, only to take a drop again due to his disastrous 35-day government shutdown.
Trump also took hits from the experts for a collapsing stock market that has angered Wall Street, and for increasing the deficit (“Trump has the dubious distinction of being the first leader among the Group of Seven –Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, U.K., U.S. — to see the deficit widen on his watch as a percentage of gross domestic product during a synchronized global expansion.”).
The president was also called out for boasting he would “get U.S. multinational corporations to bring back their foreign cash piles,” which has mostly been a failure.
While giving Trump credit for spurring growth in manufacturing jobs, Bloomberg’s Conor Sen writes that the Rust Belt — where Trump was surprisingly strong in the 2016 presidential election — has seen little job gains, which could endanger his 2020 presidential prospects
MORE:
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/tr...o-years-office/?utm_source=push_notifications
