next time some demorat asks.... name one thing trump has done good for the country.....
“What has @realDonaldTrump done or fixed as President?”
It’s a good question deserving of an in depth answer, so here’s a
thread listing some of what he’s done in 3.5 years.
Read it and RT!
First before we begin, I will be providing citations for every single
thing listed here. Go to
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citations for each. I purposefully used a broad range of news sources.
Here we go:
• 2019 Trump signed 3 bills for Native people. 1 gives compensation to
the Spokane tribe for loss of their land in the 1900s, 1 reauthorizes
funding for Native language programs & 1 gives federal recognition to
the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians.
• Dec. 20, 2019 Trump finalized the creation of Space Force as our 6th
Military branch
• Nov 25, 2019 Trump signed a law to make cruelty to animals a federal
felony so that animal abusers face tougher consequences
• Violent crime has fallen every year he’s been in office
• Dec. 2018 Trump signed bill making CBD and Hemp legal
• Trump’s EPA gave $100 million to fix the water infrastructure
problem in Flint, Michigan
• Under Trump’s leadership, in 2018 the U.S. surpassed Russia & Saudi
Arabia to become the world’s largest producer of crude oil
• In 2018 Trump signed the “Allow States and Victims to Fight Online
Sex Trafficking Act” (FOSTA), which includes the “Stop Enabling Sex
Traffickers Act” (SESTA) which both give law enforcement and victims
new tools to fight sex trafficking.
• Trump signed a law ending the gag orders on Pharmacists that
prevented them from sharing money saving information
• Trump signed a bill to require airports to provide spaces for
breastfeeding Moms
• Trump signed the Save our Seas Act which funds $10 million per year
to clean tons of plastic & garbage from the ocean
•Trump signed the biggest wilderness protection & conservation bill in
a decade and designated 375,000 acres as protected land
•Trump signed an executive order this year that forces all healthcare
providers to disclose the cost of their services so that Americans can
comparison shop and know how much less providers charge insurance
companies
•Trump signed the Right To Try bill May 30, 2018 that allows all
terminally ill patients to try experimental treatments that are not
yet approved by the FDA so that they have a fighting chance to live
• President Trump is ending surprise billing
• Hospitals will now be required to post their standard charges for
services, which include gross charges, the negotiated rates with
insurers and the discounted price a hospital is willing to accept from
a patient
• Created a White House VA Hotline to help veterans and principally
staffed it with veterans and direct family members of veterans
• VA employees are being held accountable for poor performance, with
more than 4,000 VA employees removed, demoted, and suspended so far
• He signed bills in 2019 and 2020 allowing some drug imports from
Canada so that prescription prices would go down
•Trump administration will provide HIV prevention drug for free to
200,000 uninsured patients per year for 11 years
• All time record sales during 2019 holidays
•Trump signed into a law up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for
millions of federal workers, the single most expansive parental leave
policy of ever in the US
•Trump signed an EO allowing small businesses to group together to buy
insurance so they get it at a better price
• Trump signed the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act, written by a
Republican lawmaker, providing funding for states to develop maternal
mortality review committees to better understand maternal
complications & identify solutions to reduce higher mortality rates
for Black Americans
• In 2018, President Trump signed the groundbreaking First Step Act, a
criminal justice bill which enacted reforms making our justice system
fairer + helping former inmates successfully return to society
• The act expanded judicial discretion in sentencing of non-violent crimes
• The First Step Act’s reforms addressed inequities in sentencing that
disproportionately harmed Black Americans and reformed mandatory
minimums that created unfair outcomes
• Over 90% benefitting from retroactive sentencing reductions in the
First Step Act are Black Americans
• The First Step Act provides rehabilitative programs to inmates,
helping them successfully rejoin society and not return to crime
• Trump increased funding for Historically Black Colleges and
Universities (HBCUs) by more than 14%
• Trump signed legislation forgiving Hurricane Katrina debt that
threatened HBCUs
• Made HBCUs a priority by creating the position of executive director
of the White House Initiative on HBCUs
• Trump received the Bipartisan Justice Award at a historically black
college for his criminal justice reform accomplishments
• More than 7 million jobs created since election
• Trump’s USDA committed more than $124 Million to help rebuild rural
water infrastructure
Before the virus:
• The poverty rate fell to a 17-year low of 11.8% under the Trump
administration as a result of a jobs-rich environment
• Poverty rates for African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans have
reached their lowest levels since the U.S. began collecting such data
Before COVID:
• Consumer confidence & small business confidence at an all time high
• More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history
• More than 400,000 manufacturing jobs created since his election
• Trump appointed 5 openly gay ambassadors
• Trump ordered his openly gay ambassador to Germany
• Promoted Ric Grenell in Feb 2020 to Director of National
Intelligence, making Ric the first EVER gay cabinet member for a
President
• President Trump and Ric Grenell led a global initiative to
decriminalize homosexuality across the globe
• Trump imposed sanctions on the socialists in Venezuela who killed
their citizens
• Finalized new trade agreement with South Korea
• President Trump has ordered a halt to all U.S. taxpayer money going
to international organizations that fund or perform abortions
• Made a deal with the European Union to increase U.S. energy exports to Europe
• Withdrew the U.S. from the job killing TPP deal
• Issued an executive order requiring the Secretaries of Defense,
Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs to submit a joint plan to
provide veterans access to mental health treatment as they transition
to civilian life
• President Trump signed a bill that creates five national monuments,
expands several national parks, adds 1.3 million acres of wilderness,
and permanently reauthorizes the Land and Water Conservation Fund
• Through Trump’s Anti-Trafficking Coordination Team (ACTeam)
initiative, Federal law enforcement more than doubled convictions of
human traffickers and increased the number of defendants charged by
75% in ACTeam districts
• In 2018, Trump’s DOJ dismantled an organization that was the
internet’s leading source of prostitution-related advertisements
resulting in sex trafficking
• The OMB published new anti-trafficking guidance for government
officials to effectively combat human trafficking
• Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Investigations
arrested 1,588 criminals associated with Human Trafficking
• United States law enforcement are working with Mexican officials to
dismantle human trafficking networks operating across the U.S.-Mexico
border
• Trump’s HHS provided funding to support the National Human
Trafficking Hotline to identify perpetrators + give victims the help
they need
• That hotline identified 16,862 potential human trafficking cases and
provided 14,419 referrals to services between Oct 2017 & March 2019
• Trump’s DOJ provided grants to organizations that support human
trafficking victims – serving nearly 9,000 cases from July 1, 2017, to
June 30, 2018
• Trump’s DHS has hired more victim assistance specialists, helping
ensure that victims have the proper resources and support
• In 2019 President Trump signed into law The Elie Wiesel Genocide and
Atrocities Prevention Act which aims to improve US response to
emerging or potential genocides and is named in honor of Holocaust
survivor Elie Wiesel
• Negotiated peace in Afghanistan + bringing back troops
• President Trump signed a law giving Veterans a smoother path to STEM
careers by creating a national outreach program to help Veterans enter
STEM fields