Trump can’t make America great. His 4 years in office were terrible.

https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/letters/2024/08/31/trumps-4-years-in-office-werent-great-facts-prove-they-were-terrible/75011643007/

47 Comments

  1. TheRantingYam on

    I had someone argue with me on facebook that he was the best thing to happen to the middle class, and that Biden was the reason we’re in the state that we are, as if the pandemic didn’t happen.

  2. victoryrush19 on

    To be fair, Ronald Reagan is responsible for the obliteration of the working and middle class.

  3. plz-let-me-in on

    I legitimately think I’m going crazy talking to Trump supporters. Do people have absolutely no memory whatsoever of what happened between 2016 to 2020? How can people see everything that happened under his presidency and still go “Yes, that’s someone who I want to support.” Ignoring his election denialism and literally trying to incite an insurrection, his only major policy achievement was a tax law that gave the ultra-wealthy a huge tax break and added $7 trillion to the national debt. Other than racism and taking our rights away, what exactly do people miss about Trump?

  4. Let’s erase all doubt once & for all by thoroughly crushing Trump in Nov.

    Who knows, this defeat could be to his benefit because he’ll then be able to focus all his time & efforts on fighting the many serious charges he’s already been indicted on, and possibly more.

  5. *I guess the reason Republicans are so used to taking the low road is because they have been down there so long.*

    *Nothing but darkness.*

  6. Thediciplematt on

    Honestly, anybody who is paying attention already knows this.

    The other idiots just look at gas or the price of butter and blame Biden.

  7. We’re flat out lucky to have made it out alive given Trump’s absolutely incompetent and rudderless presidency. Our taxes are higher because of Trump, there were a million excess deaths during COVID because of Trump, and so many other failings on his part that it’s staggering to even consider giving him another run… He was flat out awful at everything he did.

  8. RetiredAerospaceVP on

    Drumph’s great America was when women could not vote and segregation was in place

  9. So crazy how so many people forgot why he wasn’t reelected in the first place. The dude our messed up our foreign relations, fumbled the whole covid situation, incited a riot, and destroyed the economy with his poor/lack of response during covid. He praises the economy under his term, but in reality he had already inherited a booming economy from Obama and still messed it up. Everyone blames Biden for our economy but what people forget is that we already knew the economy was going to be messed up after being shutdown for almost 2 years. A lot of what we are recovering from: lack of trust in the government, significant rise in racial/civil issues, and a broken economy came from Trump.

  10. Well, Harris says America is Great. Trump says it ain’t, but he can fix it. I’m inclined to agree with The Coca Cola Kid, it’s the United States of Goddam America that’s great, not Trump. He can’t even fix a headlight assembly like Coach Walz can.

  11. America is already great (Fuck you Trump)

    The things we need to make it greater, we aren’t going to get from Trump:

    * Better healthcare
    * better financial security for the middle class
    * Worker protections
    * Improved environment
    * Strengthened relations with Allies in free countries
    * reduction of strength of dictators around the world

    Trump will provide the opposite. Kamala and her policies are what we need.

  12. TheBrianRoyShow on

    Remember when we were in the middle of a Pandemic that claimed over 1 million American lives and his slogan was “Keep America Great” ?

  13. Depends on your definition of “great.” If you think it’s “great” for white supremacists to crawl out of their sewage-drenched holes and gain *positive* national attention for their bullshit, then… yeah. It was “great.”

  14. Informal-Fig-7116 on

    On that interview with Dana Bash, she asked Kamala and Tim (loosely quoted): “What if people want to go back [Trumps’s economy]? What do you say to them?” Really, Dana? You dumb turd. People still holding in to the “relief” of that $1200 check that masked the absolute dismantling and disregard of the emergency COVID health plan by Obama that they gave to the Trump’s admin. And people died. Hundreds of thousands of people died but sure, continue to vote with the selective memory of $1200. Selective amnesia is what they have. Bring back education!

  15. exitpursuedbybear on

    The seriously need to run ads with a super cut of all his foolishness during his term people have forgotten. Remember when he tried to buy Greenland or when he stood like a scolded boy cowering in front of Putin or when he pushed a world leader out of way during a G-7 summit to get in the shot, or when he said we should inject ourselves with bleach then end it with J-6 stuff. Maybe tack on the FBI raid for stolen documents at Mara lago and the judge saying he’s a rapist.

  16. exitpursuedbybear on

    They seriously need to run ads with a super cut of all his foolishness during his term people have forgotten. Remember when he tried to buy Greenland or when he stood like a scolded boy cowering in front of Putin or when he pushed a world leader out of way during a G-7 summit to get in the shot, or when he said we should inject ourselves with bleach then end it with J-6 stuff. Maybe tack on the FBI raid for stolen documents at Mara lago and the judge saying he’s a rapisty

  17. Empty_Lemon_3939 on

    The whole “I can fix America!!” Claim is just kind of stupid (more so) when you were already president once and it went poorly

    It would be like if the Lions rehired Matt Patricia

  18. You’re missing the whole message. Make America Great AGAIN.

    It’s not about building a better future for our country, and it was never about that.

    It’s about going back in time.

    To a time where women had no rights and there were signs that designated everybody’s place like “whites” and “coloreds”.

  19. Six bankruptcies! lol – who thought this pathetic human wouldn’t destroy the GOP, too?

  20. Watched some focus group interviews from “low information” Trump supporters. They would make outlandish claims about the Trump economy being great and when the host corrected them, most said “I’m still voting for him anyway”.

  21. The only thing Trump did was not totally mess up the Obama economy, for at least the first 2 years of his presidency. After that what he did reared it’s head and how we were able to navigate covid is a direct reflection of Trumps policies. Aka, yes, it was a complete disaster.

  22. It’s astonishing how much damage Trump and his administration did. Centuries of hard work by people building checks and balances, democracy, functioning government all for a fascist narcissist criminal to get ahold of the reins and take a wrecking ball to everything.

    America made it out of the Trump administration hanging by a literal thread after January 6th. If the country is sincerely stupid enough to allow him power again, America’s fate will be sealed – and it won’t be pretty.

  23. It also has a lot to do with the fact that American exceptionalism is no longer the way forward. Republicans are stuck thinking that they can go back to the days of the past where military might and pure economic exploitation are the way to winning a perceived race.

    America can lead again, but Republicans are so far down the wrong path they don’t even realize that they’ve set us back by almost 3 decades.

    Future leadership is going to be about honor, inclusivity, facts, science, community and the environment. The Maga movement thinks that they need to restart military capitalism and religious purity, to eke out some new gains against China’s perceived growth in those same areas. The real trick is that they don’t. China will chase those goals and hit the same wall that we have. Late stage capitalism is the same as late stage communism. There is something else after both of those that neither country has realized yet..

  24. BoomBoomCandlez on

    He cooked the economy, and covid came along at just the right time to hide his incompetence, as well as take the blame for it

  25. He *could* make America great…by leaving and taking his enablers and supporters with him. Hell, it’s not too shabby just by not letting him and his ilk have any power over anything.

  26. jeropian-moth on

    They were actually great and it would have been even better if he wasn’t bothered every step of the way by the Dems.

  27. Etherindependance5 on

    It was truly awful and full of lies, especially around Covid. It was on the east coast in the mountains months before it supposedly in the US. what makes it worse is the states were lying about it to employees.

  28. His own wife accused him of rape.Divorced on grounds of inhumane treatment. Married a titty model. Slept with a porn star whilst married with kids. & they still vote for him.

  29. Rich-Appearance-7145 on

    Anyone who’s not brainwashed cult follower knows this simple fact, his tenure as President was a time littered in lies, disinformation, scam’s, remember infrastructure week. Each time Trump announced it several members in his administration made millions in stocks. How many people died, needlessly while this idiot assured us that the Pandemic will just one day disappear. News flash Covid still and issue, not as bad but it exsists, constantly taking credit for and Economy that was spurred by actions took in the Obama administration. Fact Is his Tax cuts for his self and other billionaires, are just coming to a head in terms of affecting the folks that need to be taxed the least. It was pure hell

  30. CoachRockStar on

    Those years were awful! Biden/Harris has been amazing at turning things around….moved far away from a Red state because you could see what damage that kind of government does to the regular people. Making villains out of poor or less fortunate people and killing the planet seems to feed their Joy. It’s so sad and depressing

  31. Trump certainly succeeded in *Making America Gross Again*. He made racism and misogyny acceptable. He made whining and complaining about being a victim his normal state of being. Jezus F christ, when will this man find some dirt to drop into and stop walking around on this planet!