YEAR ONE: The Complete Good Trump/Bad Trump List

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By Ben Shapiro
https://www.dailywire.com/news/24854/year-one-complete-good-trumpbad-trump-list-ben-shapiro

As we reach the end of President Trump’s first year in office, it’s time to take stock: how well
has he done? The emerging popular view among people on the right is that Trump has had a wildly
successful first year, but that his successes have been ignored by a recalcitrant Leftist media seeking
his destruction. There’s certainly some truth to that. But it’s also true that Trump has undercut himself
repeatedly, and that his policy legacy may well be reversed by a Democratic swell at least partially of
his own making.

So, here are the pros and cons of Trump’s first year – the first year Good Trump/Bad Trump.

Good Trump:

1. Justice Gorsuch . . . Gorsuch is a major victory for the president, and was for the first ten months
of his administration, the only major win the president could point to.
2. The Defeat Of ISIS . . .
3. The Soaring Stock Market . . .
4. The Excellent Growth And Unemployment Statistics . . .
5. Cutting Regulations . . .
6. Curbing The Iran Deal . . .
7. Announcing Jerusalem As Israel’s Capital . . .
8. Opening Public Lands . . .
9. Passing New North Korean Sanctions . . .
10. Repeal Of The Individual Mandate . . .
11. Tax Reform . . .
12. Record Number Of Appellate Court Appointments . . .
13. Pullout From The Paris Accords . . .
14. Travel Ban . . .
15. Unshackling The Military And Supporting Police . . .

Bad Trump:

1. Charlottesville . . .
2. Trans-Pacific Partnership Pullout . . .
3. Obamacare Repeal Failure . . .
4. Picking Mike Flynn And Steve Bannon . . .
5. Firing James Comey . . .
6. Overall Russian Investigation Botchery . . .
7. No Border Wall . . .
8. Push For New DACA . . .
9. Constant Barrage Of Nonsense . . . If somebody unplugged the president’s phone, his approval ratings
would jump 10 percent within two weeks.
10. Kissing Up To Putin . . .
11. Treating Duterte With Kid Gloves . . .
12. Roy Moore Endorsement . . .
13. Attacking His Own Staffers . . .
14. Not Staffing The Federal Government . . .

As you’ll notice, Trump’s accomplishments aren’t minimal – and a huge number of his setbacks are self-made
and rhetorical. All of which demonstrates why Trump is beloved by his base but carries an approval rating of 35
percent, the lowest approval rating of any president at this point in modern American history (every other
president since Kennedy was above 50 percent, except for Reagan in 1981, who clocked in at 49 percent). If
Trump could just curb his own appetite for the spotlight and stop feeling the need to sound off like a commenter
on Breitbart on every issue, he’d be in much more solid position to keep winning on the issues Americans care
about.