Interesting article, but like most things with Trump it’s all about whether you think the glass is half-empty or half-full. Relative to a number of the points made in the article I agree with some and disagree with others:
Promise keeping: Sure the President has kept some promises but he’s failed to keep some high profile ones: “lock her upâ€, repeal and replace, Mexico paying for the wall, proposing a Constitutional Amendment for term limits (#1 on his 100 day plan), eliminating the debt within 8 years (instead he’s adding to it), he said he'd rarely leave the White House and not take time off, but he's played an awful lot of golf and spent an awful lot of time at Trump properties, no lawsuit against the many females who accused him of sexual misconduct, no "so presidential that you won’t even recognize" him, he's still tweeting even though he said: "I tweeted today. At ‘realdonaldtrump,’ I tweet. You know it… don’t worry, I’ll give it up after I’m president. We won’t tweet anymore, I don’t think. Not presidential." There's a long list of promises not kept: many very high profile and important.
Being a fighter: Yes, he’s a fighter, but many of us find the petty squabbles and name-calling unbecoming of the office.
Regulations: I think Trump deserves a huge amount of credit for cutting regulations, and I believe (but can’t prove) that this and the anticipation of corporate tax cuts have been a huge contributing factor for the run-up of the stock market in his first year.
Honesty: Trump may or may not be corrupt or criminal, but I don’t see how anyone can honestly say or imply he’s an honest and truthful man. Personally, I truly value truth and honesty and really abhor dishonesty. Whether it was Clinton, Bush, or Obama, whenever they were dishonest, I called them on it. Similarly, I do it with President Trump, but I must say, Trump certainly does seem to take the frequency of lies, falsehoods, misleading, and deflecting statements to a whole new level, and I just find that incredibly disheartening and unbecoming of the office of the Presidency.
Self-centered, extroverted braggart: I agree but certainly don’t find those traits admirable in any way.
On “not allow(ing) North Korea….to have nuclear weaponsâ€: That horse has already left the barn. According to the BBC: “North Korea says it has conducted five successful nuclear tests: in 2006, 2009, 2013 and in January and September 2016. The yield of the bombs appears to have increased. September 2016's test has indicated a device with an explosive yield of between 10 and 30 kilotonnes - which, if confirmed, would make it the North's strongest nuclear test ever.â€
ISIS: As I’ve said before, I think he deserves all the credit in the world for freeing up our military’s rules of engagement and taking the fight to ISIS.
He's certainly accomplished SOME of the things he promised, but he's failed to meet many of them (and many that are important to me). Overall though, I don't find the lies, misleading statements, deflections, self-centeredness, bragging, childish name-calling, and petty squabbles to be any kind of character traits that I find admirable in the least. JMO.