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posted by martyb on Tuesday May 02 2017, @09:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-exactly-like-Ted-Williams dept.

The Center for American Progress reports

On [April 29], Donald Trump marks the 100th day of his presidency, and finds his approval ratings much lower than any of his modern predecessors.

One reason for this could be perceptions about his accountability. To become president, Trump made a lot of promises to a lot of people--663, in fact. In just 100 days of what would be 1,461 days of a first term, Donald Trump has broken 80 promises he made before he was sworn in.

[...] A close analysis of the 663 promises Trump made on the campaign trail shows how few he has kept, and how many more he has broken.

Trump's promises about what he would accomplish in his first 100 days are not the first vows pegged to a key milestone that were summarily ignored or broken. As a candidate, Trump made several pledges about the first paper he would sign, as well as what would he would do during his first minute and first hour as president. He kept none of them. On his first day in office, Trump failed to keep 34 different promises of what he said he would do on Day One in the White House--and fulfilled just two.

In total, during his first month in office, Trump broke 64 promises. He kept just seven of his promises in that first month.

Including those from the first month, Trump has broken 80 promises and kept seven in the first hundred days. Three promises have been addressed with some caveats in a separate category below.

[...] When the AP's Julie Pace asked Trump about the 100-day plan, Trump replied, "I'm mostly there on most items."

The reality shows the opposite.

[...] Trump promised he won't let countries steal our jobs anymore.

"We'll put our people back to work, we will not let other countries steal our jobs. It it is not going to happen anymore." Worcester, MA, 11/18/15 [Video]

According to a ThinkProgress analysis of Labor Department data, at least 11,934 American jobs have been lost or are in the process of leaving the United States since Inauguration Day.

In going to a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to celebrate his amazing string of accomplishments over the last 100 days, Trump avoided the White House Correspondents Association dinner where he was sure to have been the butt of about a billion squarely-on-target jokes.

As for Trump's claim that "No administration has accomplished more in the first 90 days", Politifact notes

The 15 major bills [which Franklin Roosevelt signed in his first 100 days] included those that created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Tennessee Valley Authority (both of which still exist) and the Home Owners Loan Corp. He signed the Agricultural Adjustment Act, which established farm subsidies, and the National Industrial Recovery Act, which started public-works efforts to reverse the Great Depression. He signed legislation to legalize the manufacture and sale of beer and wine, and he issued executive orders to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps and to effectively take the United States off the gold standard.


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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday May 02 2017, @10:25PM (9 children)

    And what urban people demand of whoever's in office. The last one to deliver was Clinton and that was by epic dumb luck that he was serving during the dotcom bubble. The last one to deliver on merits of what he did in office was Reagan.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @10:41PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @10:41PM (#503229)

    There was considerable tech progress during the 1990s which wasn't related to the internet at all. CPU speeds increased tenfold during the decade, for example. The stroke of luck which Clinton had was being elected for the roaring 90s between the end of the Cold War era and the beginning of the Terrorist Era. We had our one decade of peace and prosperity and it's over.

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday May 02 2017, @11:01PM

      No disagreement here.

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    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by NewNic on Tuesday May 02 2017, @11:12PM (4 children)

      by NewNic (6420) on Tuesday May 02 2017, @11:12PM (#503271) Journal

      The stroke of luck which Clinton had was being elected for the roaring 90s between the end of the Cold War era and the beginning of the Terrorist Era.

      There was no luck involved in being before the Terrorist Era: that era was manufactured by Bush the younger and continued under Obama.

      "the real Golden Age of terrorism in the United States was during the '70s," [cnn.com]

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      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday May 03 2017, @02:40AM (3 children)

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 03 2017, @02:40AM (#503430) Journal

        "manufactured by Bush the younger"

        You presume, of course, that the mideast hadn't been brewing for decades already. You conveniently forget the overthrow of a democratic government in Iran, decades of undermining Iraq and Syria, half a century of propping up dozens of dictators around the world, heavily subsidizing Israel with military aid, and so much more.

        Terrorism wasn't manufactured by Bush. He may, arguably, have blown it out of proportion. He most certainly dealt with it wrong. But you give him far to much credit when you claim that he manufactured it.

        • (Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Wednesday May 03 2017, @11:54AM (2 children)

          by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Wednesday May 03 2017, @11:54AM (#503571) Journal

          Terrorism wasn't manufactured by Bush.

          Go and re-read the post you replied to. Nobody is saying Bush invented terrorism. He presided over the dawn of the era of terrorism - that is to say, the trend of massively over-reacting to terrorist acts in order to justify illegal wars, insane military spending, kleptomania and human rights abuses at home and abroad. That's how he differs from everybody who preceded him. That's also how the middle east went from decades of "brewing" to "full on homicidal batshit spiralling orgy of death crazy."

          • (Score: 2) by NewNic on Wednesday May 03 2017, @05:07PM

            by NewNic (6420) on Wednesday May 03 2017, @05:07PM (#503768) Journal

            Thank you!

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @07:44PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @07:44PM (#503888)

            Well.

            If you look at the destabilization in the last 20 years in that sphere, "Invade Iraq, and then have Bremer force every Baath party member out of work" is kind of The Big Thing. Nothing else compares. He apparently didn't realize that it was compulsory to be in the Baath Party to get post secondary education, or to work as a teacher or in government. People with no actual political affiliation were members in the same way as people in N.Am. are members of university Student Unions - by default, not actively.

            So if you make every university educated person a pariah what happens? If you fire every teacher, what happens?

            Answer: you open a huge power void which gets filled by the fastest, greediest to reach it. And then you have incredible, interminable conflict.

            So was there a problem before? Sure. But kind of like the revolution in Iran, the situation was a LOT better before USA meddling. And the current situation in that sphere - which includes Pakistan, India, and others, not just Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria - is 100% that administration's fault. They Really Fucked Things Up.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @02:09AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @02:09AM (#503406)

    The last one to deliver was Clinton

    It didn't hurt Slick Willie's record that he rejiggered the system such that he simply stopped counting as "unemployed" those people who couldn't find anyone who would hire them.
    ...a system that no administration since has set back to right.

    ...as well as his putting lots of people in jail and not counting them either.
    Again: Still uncorrected on the inordinate jailing or on the counting.

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