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How will President Trump go down in history?
From an unbiased point of view, from the eye of the government, how will Trump go down as history? What will this time be called? The Age of Fear?ย
6 Answers
- Anonymous5 months ago
I was born before JFK was President. Trump is without question the very worst of the 10 Presidents to serve in my lifetime, Biden will be the 11th. And I majored in US history, trump is the worst US President ever. Unbiased history books will agree, and I pray for the future of the USA that we never have the likes of him in the White House again. The Age of the Dishonest, Lying President.
- ?Lv 65 months ago
Based on your answer, you want to exclude yourself from your own 'unbiased' qualifier. Your "age of fear" assessment comes from the damage incurred by the radical Left throughout the entire 4 years of Trump's presidency.
Since before he was elected, he's been nothing but the butt of jokes and political attacks by the Democrats because he ran - and then won, when, even after committing election fraud, Hillary lost.
Of course, you don't agree that there was election fraud in the 2016 election because you either choose not to or you paid no attention to what was going on - or else you were just TOLD the facts that you choose to believe without thinking for yourself.
In the 2016 elections, illegals were one of the main issues - sanctuary cities, cages at the border, "the wall"...
Then came the Russian collusion accusations, followed by the Ukraine scandal where Trump was accused of quid pro quo - when it was Biden who actually admitted doing it...
Then there were the mail-in ballots in 2020 - such a great idea based on the warnings of the USPS to never send large amounts of cash through the mail. This was such a vote of confidence for their security, wasn't it?
But this is the reason Democrats pushed for mail-in ballots. It would be so easy to tamper with, as the investigations of the election results are revealing. One USPS postal worker signed legal affidavits to the fact that the USPS was having its employees backdate postmarks to November 3rd.
Lest we forget Philadelphia voter fraud in 1993 (by a Democrat, of all people) which resulted in the election being overturned and the Senate seat given to the Republican candidate, instead.
You probably don't know anything about this, either.
That's what happens when you're uninformed and don't take enough interest in getting the facts before you support a cause that you know little or nothing about.
Trump will go down in history as a great man who worked tirelessly and unselfishly for his country ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ in spite of the never-ending accusations and attacks against him by the opposing party.
I would call it "the age of Marxism".
- reeLv 65 months ago
The trump legacy is still actively being framed. I expect citizen trump to be held accountable for his misconduct when he is no longer protected by the office. In other words, the way he will most be remembered can still be in the balance of what does or does not develop. As of today, we know his character is atrocious f/ too many ways to itemize.
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- Anonymous5 months ago
When separating the man from the time in which he served, Trump will be remembered as being arrogant, argumentative, boastful, boorish, conceited, deceitful, completely devoid of class, dishonest, divisive, incompetent, petty, sneaky, uncouth, unintelligent, and unprofessional. He will be remembered more for his lies than anything else, but his brash nature and the fact that he is so thoroughly unapologetic about his actions and his behaviour will certainly follow him for the rest of his days.ย
I still can't believe that the instance where he mimicked a handicapped reporter didn't bring him universal condemnation, never mind when he publicly insulted John McCain - that was truly despicable. The fact that he ever even somewhat recovered from either of those two is truly astonishing.ย
Still, while it's fairly easy to list all of Trump's shortcomings as a human being, it's only fair to examine his tenure by looking at the era in which he served. The Coronavirus pandemic is going to be the defining aspect of his presidency. Like all politicians, he did some good and some bad, he kept some promises and not others, but as the entire world was reeling from the effects of COVID he refused to implement policies that would save lives and curb the spread. He downplayed the severity of the virus, he catered to his base and refused to order large-scale lockdowns and closures and fought governors who urged him to do that every step of the way.ย
It's likely that he believed that his efforts to build ties with North Korea would be his legacy. The fact that a sitting US president and the leader of the DPRK were able to sit down and talk was indeed impressive, but at the end of the day people saw it for what it was - a ploy on the part of two egotistical men who thought a cheap photo op and an empty handshake might improve their image, not only at home, but around the world. It was an empty gesture, but it was something. Had the Coronavirus outbreak never occurred, it's possible that it might be viewed as something more substantial, but even that's doubtful.ย
Unlike his predecessors, Trump did manage to avoid dragging the US into another long, drawn out armed conflict. He ordered the assassination of a terrorist that the West had been gunning for and negotiated a deal with Iran that allowed them to save face without having to sacrifice any American lives, that is probably a testament to his negotiation skills.ย
While it can be argued that none of his policies were explicitly racist in nature, he refused to condemn racists who supported him, drawing the ire of many. I think it would be unfair to criticise some of his more controversial policies such as the border wall and the immigration raids that saw a great many people arrested, but it's only logical that a US president would want to secure the country's borders, and it's silly to argue that entering the country illegally and earning money without paying taxes on said income is a crime. When criminals are apprehended, they're separated from their wives and children, that's nothing new.
In the end it appears that our final memory of his term will be the way he handled his loss. It was indeed a close race, and he defied the odds and his detractors with the number of votes he received, but he hasn't shown an ounce of class since the results were released and his refusal to concede and his baseless accusations of fraud only make him look worse.ย
I'm not American, but I've lived through the terms of six presidents from Reagan, to Bush, Bush to Clinton, Clinton to Bush, Bush to Obama, Obama to Trump, so Biden will be the seventh, and many people would consider George W. Bush and Trump to be the worst presidents in modern history. Biden doesn't show a whole lot of promise either, and depending on what side of the political spectrum you stand on, you might be inclined to add Obama to the list of all time worst as well, so the Americans aren't exactly batting a thousand with their leaders in the last few decades at all.ย
Trump's presidency has done serious damage to the image of the Republican Party, and if they expect to take back the executive branch of government sometime in the next few years, they're going to have to seriously re-evaluate their strategies and their image. But Trump's real legacy will be the fact that he was such a divisive figure. He managed to gain a lot of support, but at the same time he incurred the wrath and hatred of millions of Americans, and still millions more around the world.ย
There hasn't been a one-term president since Bush, Sr. back in 1993 - that's nearly three decades ago, so Trump has succeeded in being unlikable enough to be booted out after 4 years, something the three presidents before him managed to avoid, and Bush, Jr. and Obama were two of the most polarizing figures on American politics in modern times.ย
In short, I don't think history is going to remember Donald Trump very fondly at all.ย
- ?Lv 75 months ago
Trump is now and will forever be known as the worst president in U.S. history,,
An impeached one term loser and quite possibly the first ex-president to face jail time after leaving office,