Francis Menton: ‘A Mini Scorecard’ Trump 2.0’s first 7 months: #1: ‘The remarkable total reversal of the Obama/Biden policies of suppression of energy production’
By Admin
August 26, 2025
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2025-8-20-a-mini-scorecard-for-president-trumps-first-seven-months-of-term-twoBy Francis Menton
Excerpt: Our current President Trump carries the concept of “energy in the executive” to an extreme level, undertaking a dizzying array of initiatives, with new ones emerging so rapidly that it is difficult to keep up. Many of Trump’s initiatives have corrected disastrous and destructive policies of the Biden and Obama years. But with so many initiatives, perhaps it is inevitable that some will be misfires; or perhaps Trump lacks a capacity for self-criticism to distinguish his good ideas from the bad ones.
So I thought it might be useful to compile a short list of a few of Trump’s best and worst undertakings. I’m going to pick three of each. Obviously, readers may have different ideas as to which belong in the “best” and “worst” categories. And I’m only selecting a few on each side of the ledger. Have I maybe missed the very worst one?
Best Trump Initiatives
(1) Reversing the suppression of American energy production
At the very top of my list is the remarkable total reversal of the Obama/Biden policies of suppression of energy production. Obama and Biden had set the U.S. on the path of economic suicide in service to the insane climate cult. Trump is now undoing literally all of it. This reversal is particularly remarkable because Trump barely got started on the project during his first term.
Something called the American Energy Alliance spent the Biden years compiling a list of all the initiatives of that group to suppress energy production. In all, their list had over 200 entries by the time Biden left office. Kevin Killough of Just the News on August 16 has a write-up on the AEA compilation. Since Trump has taken office for the second term, AEA has compiled a comparable list of all the reversals, now also in the range of 200 items. The topics covered range from reversing the finding the CO2 “endangers” human health and welfare, to undoing efforts to force closure of power plants running on coal and natural gas, to undoing automobile fuel economy standards, and much, much more. And add to the list reversing hundreds of billions of dollars of subsidies for useless wind and solar electricity generation.
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