The Donald Trump Friendship and Positivity Thread

[Commodore]

In this thread we will only discuss positive topics regarding President Donald Trump. No negativity, no insults or criticisms veiled as positive comments. Only true compliments and sharing of positive aspects of Trump's presidency so far.

I'll kick it off with this article that I just know the fine folks here at CFC will be happy to read:

http://www.businessinsider.com/trum...al-rating-up-2018-6?amp%3Butm_medium=referral

President Donald Trump has faced intense, sustained backlash to his immigration policies even after a partial reversal of course. But even as Trump's officials are shouted out of restaurants and called fascists to their faces, Trump's polling numbers have been steady — even rising — over the past several weeks. A Gallup poll and the RealClearPolitics average of polls both put Trump around a 45% approval rating, with that number rising steadily throughout June. That's just one point lower than Barack Obama was at this point in his presidency. Over the same period, Trump's border practices drove mainstream news anchors to tears and sparked round-the-clock coverage of family separations.

If he's only one point behind Obama at the same point in his presidency, just imagine what his poll numbers would be like if the media actually treated him fairly.

 

[BenitoChavez]

I liked his proposal to implement term limits for congress.

...I'm trying real hard to come up with something else positive...

 

[Birdjaguar]

He is 71, overweight, eats food from McDonald's, and is a type A personality and is the healthiest president we've ever had.

 

[Berzerker]

If he's only one point behind Obama at the same point in his presidency, just imagine what his poll numbers would be like if the media actually treated him fairly.

Obama was dealing with Bush's economic meltdown, Trump got to ride the recovery wave into office. What I like: I like that Trump's at war with the Democrat media. Unemployment is low and the economy seems decent. He's 'radical' enough on foreign policy to change the map and while I dont like tariffs, I understand using them in response to tariffs on our exports. If he can bring trading partners to the table for an adjustment of cold war trade policy, thats a good thing. "If"... Harley Davidson will need to build a plant where tariffs can be avoided. They were leaving KC before this, but tariffs on their bikes wont help them stay.

 

[rah]

Despite it all, Ivanka.

I got nothing else.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

His anti-Trudeau tweets created all-party harmony in Parliament for the first time in... I actually can't remember when the last time was that the Reformacons wholeheartedly supported the Liberals.

 

[Azem.Ocram]

The news has never been more entertaining!
He put in a great effort towards denuclearizing North Korea.
He has good taste in women.

 

[Ryika]

Trump is never shy of reconsidering his position when somebody offers him an alternative view.

 

[Lexicus]

His engagement with North Korea appears to have been genuine. Obviously he and his allies lied about it left, right, and center but the actual deal appears to have been a significant diplomatic achievement.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

He's unlikely to ever appear within 500 miles of me. Best I've got.

 

[luiz]

Yeah I was also going to mention NK. Besides the media pretty much rooting for a fiasco and reporting a fiasco before we even knew anything about the terms, it does look to have been a significant achievement.

Other than that, I don't have much nice to say about El Trumpo.

 

[rah]

Oh Oh, one more, his golf courses are very nice.

 

[Ferocitus]

********: Under his Presidency, USA's 2nd best friend in the Middle East was
forced to let women drive motor vehicles. Trump 1 - Obama 0.

 

[Peuri]

The presidency of Donald Trump boosted the sales of George Orwell's 1984 by thousands of percents world wide. It's a great book, everyone should read it. Thank you prez Trump, for increasing people's interest in fine literature.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Progress against ISIS in Syria and Iraq accelerated after Trump took office. According to a Washington Post article from about a year ago, Trump returned a lot of the decision-making authority to the military commanders. Trump doesn't appear to have any plan for our involvement in the Middle East, but honestly, I'm not sure that having no plan is really worse than what Bush and Obama were able to accomplish. And I think there was broad agreement that ISIS had to go.

The Washington Post, August 4, 2017 - Under Trump, gains against ISIS have 'dramatically accelerated'

NATO is continuing to (try to) put its self-defense capability back together. According to an AP article from a year ago, the NATO Secretary-General said the Europeans were putting another $12 billion into their militaries. At that time, only the US, Great Britain, Estonia, Greece (Greece!), and Poland were meeting their spending targets of 2% of GDP. US pressure to get our European allies to pony up didn't begin under Trump, and I didn't like the suggestion that the US might not honor its treaty obligations, but if scaring the snap out of the Europeans spurs them to get their houses in order, maybe it will have worked out for the best.

Associated Press, June 28, 2017 - NATO Chief: US allies to spend $12 billion more this year

Of course it's too early to judge either of these as real successes. In foreign policy, a short-term success isn't a success at all. Anybody remember George W. Bush under the "Mission Accomplished" banner? We drubbed the Iraqi army worse than England beat Panama the other day, and it was one of the worst foreign policy debacles in US history. But, otoh, it's also too early to judge these as failures, or as pyrrhic victories.

 

[Ferocitus]

It's now easier to get a table in some restaurants in D.C.
Thanks, Mr Trump.

 

[metalhead]

If he's only one point behind Obama at the same point in his presidency, just imagine what his poll numbers would be like if the media actually treated him fairly.

Probably much lower. They have been very unfairly easy on, and enabling of, him since the moment he announced his candidacy.

 

[Synobun]

His engagement with North Korea appears to have been genuine. Obviously he and his allies lied about it left, right, and center but the actual deal appears to have been a significant diplomatic achievement.

What deal?

 

[Ryika]

What deal?

The deal.

 

[Lexicus]

What deal?

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/06/trump-kim-korea-success/563012/

I'll grant I find it unlikely that this ends up lasting very long. Trump or Kim seems likely to derail it somehow. But it's not nothing.