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30 Good Things President Trump Has Done for America

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Posted: Aug 24, 2020 12:01 AM

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President Trump receives non-stop criticism in the press. I agree that criticism is necessary when a president makes mistakes, but where are the voices expressing appreciation for the proficient things Trump has done? It'due south unfair to e'er criticize and never recognize whatsoever of the practiced things a president has washed.

Information technology might be a refreshing modify to recollect some of the remarkable, nation-irresolute good things that Trump has accomplished for America. Hither is my personal list.

Considering of space limitations, I take not given extensive arguments explaining why I think these deportment are skillful for the United States. But more than extensive arguments can be found in my books Christian Ethics, Politics According to the Bible, and The Poverty of Nations.

ane. Judges:Trump has appointed ii Supreme Court justices, 53 federal appellate judges, and 146 Commune Court judges (as well equally two judges for the Court of International Trade) who accept been confirmed by the Senate so far. In addition, 64 more have been appointed and are awaiting Senate confirmation. All of them are committed to interpreting the Constitution and laws according to the original meaning of the words, rather than co-ordinate to what a modern liberal estimate thinks the law should have said.

As an evangelical Christian, I am glad to see that Trump's two Supreme Court appointments have already been responsible for highly significant cases that increase religious liberty, such as the decisions (1) to allow land aid that is given to non-religious schools to exist given also to religious schools (Montana decision); (two) to protect the correct of religious schools to hire and fire employees based on the schoolhouse's religious convictions; and (3) to allow religious groups to be exempt from government regulations that would otherwise cause them to violate their consciences in matters of birth command (and, by implication, probably in matters of abortion and same-sex marriage, simply that has not all the same been tested).

2. Historic taxation cuts and deregulation: After eight years of high unemployment and meager growth nether President Obama'due south administration, the Trump tax cuts of 2017 and Trump's extensive canceling of excessive government regulations on businesses have given a tremendous heave to the American economy. An estimated 25,000 pages of regulations have been canceled, resulting in a savings of $three,100 per household per year. Another result of revenue enhancement cuts combined with deregulation has been the addition of thousands of new jobs, so that unemployment (before the coronavirus crisis) fell to the everyman point in 50 years, and unemployment amongst African-American and Hispanic workers was the everyman it has ever been in history.

On election solar day, 2016 (eleven-8-16), the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 18,332.74.

This afternoon (viii-21-twenty at two:29 p.m.) it stands at 27, 898.82, which is an increase of 52% in 3.five years, even including several months of the coronavirus epidemic. This is remarkable.

These economical changes affect ordinary people'due south everyday lives, not just wealthy people. Tens of thousands of people who were unemployed have recovered the dignity of steady employment (including getting paid during the coronavirus crisis). Millions of ordinary Americans whose retirement savings are partially invested in the stock market (including my married woman and me) are finally receiving some protection and fifty-fifty growth in their savings.

iii. Building a stronger U.S. military: Reversing the massive budget cuts that had seriously weakened our military under the Obama administration, President Trump has increased war machine spending by nearly $150 billion per twelvemonth from $605 billion in 2016 to $750 billion, steadily rebuilding U.Southward. war machine readiness.

4. Protecting unborn babies:Numerous executive orders have increasingly restricted authorities funding for abortions (such every bit the reinstatement of the Mexico City policy). On February 22, 2019, the Trump administration announced that it would not allow organizations that provide referrals for abortions to receive federal family-planning coin, which implies a cut in funding for Planned Parenthood (the nation'due south largest abortion provider) unless they perform abortions in a separate facility and not refer patients to information technology. And on May two, 2019, the Trump assistants's Department of Health and Human Services issued a new rule protecting healthcare workers who reject on the basis of conscience or religious conviction to participate in procedures such every bit ballgame or assisted suicide. Trump was the first president ever to personally nourish the pro-life March for Life in Washington, D.C. on Jan 24, 2020.

5. Expanding educational freedom:President Trump appointed Betsy DeVos, ane of America's leading advocates for greater school option, to be Secretarial assistant of Education, resulting in rising support for lease schools, taxpayer-funded vouchers, and taxation credits for private-school vouchers, programs aimed at expanding options for parents looking across traditional public schools as she brings attention to them.

vi. Standing with Israel: Reversing President Obama's repeated marginalization and shunning of State of israel, President Trump has reaffirmed our delivery to support and defend Israel. He decisively moved the United States Diplomatic mission from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. He recognized the Golan Heights as role of Israel. He has welcomed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White Business firm several times and has repeatedly reaffirmed our support for Israel. I recently read in the Jerusalem Post a argument that Israel has never had a ameliorate friend in the White House than Donald Trump.

7. Negotiating a historic understanding between Israel and the United Arab Emirates: On Baronial 13, 2020, President Trump announced that Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) had come to a historic agreement to establish full diplomatic relations between the two countries, including the establishment of permanent embassies and the get-go of directly airline flights between the two countries. This is important considering Dubai, the largest city in the UAE, is the leading financial center in the Middle E and plays a paramount role in world air travel and tourism. The agreement volition "strengthen regional checks on Iranian power." It also has the potential to set a blueprint for time to come agreements establishing peaceful relations between Israel and other Arab countries in the Centre East.

viii. Actually edifice a border wall:President Trump has relentlessly battled against Democratic stonewalling and liberal federal judges to build an effective, secure border wall along more 200 miles of our southern border, and it could possibly achieve as much equally 450 miles by the finish of 2020. Critics object that virtually of this structure is just replacing onetime barriers that were already in place, only they neglect to recognize that the government's first priority has been to secure the highest traffic areas, and in many of those areas the old contend was not up to the chore. An effective edge wall is admittedly necessary to continue our nation secure and to proceeds some control over an immigration crisis that has spiraled out of control. Information technology won't put an end to all illegal immigration, but eventually it will likely finish over 95 percent of people who try to enter on foot.

This is of import because once the American people feel that the border is secure, it volition exist much easier to gain the political consensus necessary for a humane and but solution regarding the undocumented immigrants who are already hither, and for widespread support for the legal entry of large numbers of immigrants who will contribute much value to this great nation.

9. Comprehensive clearing reform proposals : President Trump has proposed and worked for sensible, comprehensive reform of our broken immigration system that would change our policy on legal clearing from a system based on extended family connections and randomness to a system based on merit, so that nosotros prioritize admitting people who volition be most probable to contribute positively to American lodge (likewise as those who are escaping from 18-carat threats to their lives in their homelands).

ten. Religious freedom and freedom of conscience: President Trump's administration has repeatedly and continually worked to defend religious liberty, and his Justice Section has defended religious liberty in numerous courtroom cases, such equally supporting the example of Colorado cake designer Jack Phillips at the Supreme Court (Phillips faced massive fines for politely declining to pattern a cake celebrating a same-sex hymeneals), and the right of faith-based organizations not to be required to provide access to abortifacients through their health care plans, overturning the Obamacare HHS regulation that had forced them to exercise then.

In addition, in the first year of Trump's presidency, the Section of Justice issued a strongly-worded, 25-page memorandum detailing exceptionally strong protections for religious liberty.

xi. Withdrawing from the Paris climate accord: President Trump wisely and decisively removed the United states from the Paris climate accord, a radical environmentalist program which, according to a Heritage Foundation study, would have brought massive increases to U.Southward. free energy prices with no statistically pregnant benefit to the surround. Doubling or tripling of U.S. free energy costs (every bit under the Paris climate accord, according to the Heritage Foundation) would have harmed the poor nearly of all as they spend the highest portion of their budgets on free energy. In improver, it would have cost America more than 206,000 jobs by 2040.

12. Energy production and energy independence: President Trump gave approval to the Keystone pipeline, the Dakota access pipeline, and oil production from the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, a vast uninhabited region that could produce upward to 20 percent of our petroleum needs. His administration has besides granted more than permits for mining of oil, gas, and coal from federal lands.The consequence has been lower energy prices (which benefits anybody) and besides U.South. energy independence so that we are now condign the leading exporter rather than a net importer of energy.

13. Waterways of the U.Southward.: The Trump administration'southward decision to abandon the "waterways of the U.S." policy rightfully returned control of h2o on private lands to the owners of those lands, rather than the federal government seizing control over nearly all waterways in the United States. These rules accept hindered farmers, ranchers, and developers. American Subcontract Bureau Chairman Zippy Duvall praised the action, saying: "Farmers and ranchers intendance about clean h2o and preserving the land, which are essential to producing healthy food and fiber and ensuring future generations can do the same. That'southward why we support the new clean water rule. It provides clarity and certainty, assuasive farmers to empathise water regulations without having to hire teams of consultants and lawyers. We capeesh the commitment of the agencies involved and this administration to crafting a new regulation that achieves important regulatory oversight while allowing farmers to farm. Clean water, clear rules."

14. Halting the increase in Corporate Average Fuel Economy (Cafe) standards: The Trump administration decision halted the Obama-imposed harsh annual increases in projected average miles per gallon required in new cars every twelvemonth. This decision will lead to more consumer option and less expensive and safer cars, which is much meliorate than the Democratic policy of e'er-college mileage goals, requiring ever-lighter and smaller cars, which means more unsafe cars and less consumer choice.

15. Defeating ISIS: President Trump gave our armed services forces the freedom to defeat ISIS and bulldoze them out of large sections of Republic of iraq and Syrian arab republic, which they did. This is far superior to the Autonomous policy of inaction and appeasement, which had immune ISIS to accept over large areas of the Middle East. Under President Trump'south leadership, U.S. military machine forces located and killed ISIS founder and terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Oct. 26-27, 2019. President Trump besides directed the killing of Iranian terrorist mastermind Qasem Soleimani on Jan. two, 2020.

16. Persuading European nations to pay more for NATO: President Trump has insisted that NATO countries outset to pay their fair share of defense costs, and some NATO countries have responded past increasing their defense budgets. In 2017, v countries met the goal of spending 2 percentage of their Gdp on defense and that has now increased to ix, co-ordinate to the brotherhood'southward latest budgetary data. The U.S. is set to spend over $750 billion (3.7 pct of GDP) on its military this year and leads the "higher up 2%" group, which now includes Bulgaria (3.25 percent), Greece (2.28 per centum), the U.k. (two.14 pct), Estonia (ii.14 percentage), Romania (two.04 per centum), Lithuania (ii.03 percent), Republic of latvia (two.01 percent) and Poland (2 pct).

17. Protections against faux accusation on college campuses:President Trump's assistants has restored many due procedure guidelines that universities must follow in processing championship IX accusations of sexual assault on academy campuses.

18. Protecting freedom of speech on college campuses: President Trump issued an executive order giving more specific protections to freedom of speech on college campuses by threatening the loss of federal inquiry dollars if they do not allow for free spoken language for all students and kinesthesia members. On many campuses, bourgeois and religious students and kinesthesia members accept had their views censored or accept faced retribution for expressing conservative or faith-based views.

xix. Protecting boys' and girls' bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports teams: On February 22, 2017, President Trump directed the Department of Education to revoke the Obama administration'due south guidance letter that had directed schools to allow children who claim to exist "transgender" to utilise the bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers of their choice, and to join sports teams of their choice, even when their choices differed from their biological sex activity.

In a related decision, President Trump issued an executive gild banning transgender persons from inbound our military forces, which would take allowed biological males complimentary access to women's bathrooms, locker rooms and showers, and similarly allowed biological females to enter men'south facilities. Nowadays Trump's order was upheld past the Supreme Court, which lifted the block on the society by a 5-iv vote. While litigation will proceed, the guild stands for now.

20. Negotiating new trade agreements that are more than favorable to the United states of america:President Trump has negotiated new trade agreements with United mexican states, Canada, and People's republic of china, and all of them give more than favorable treatment to the United States than the previous treaties did.

21. Streamlining environmental reviews for major construction projects: In order to build a new section of highway, a new subway line, or a new gas pipeline, the necessary environmental bear on statements have recently taken an average of 4.v years, and many ran for half-dozen years or longer. These delays massively increased construction costs and delayed relief for over-congested highways for many years. But on July 15, 2020, President Trump's White House released new guidelines limiting ecology impact studies to two years and limiting less-all-encompassing ecology assessments to one year. The Wall Street Periodical says these new rules "could literally cut thousands of years of cumulative filibuster" for construction projects. This will be a huge help in renewing America'southward aging infrastructure.

22. Sending weapons to Ukraine: Whereas President Obama sent just humanitarian help, President Trump authorized the selling of actual military equipment to Ukraine, including Javelin missiles that were necessary to defend confronting Russian aggression.

23. Standing up to Mainland china and Russia:Trump has been the first president to decisively denounce China's blatant exercise of industrial espionage and bullying, stealing of intellectual property, and violating international copyright protections. He has followed up with strong merchandise sanctions against China, an increased U.S. naval presence in the Due south China Sea, and the endmost of the Chinese consulate in Houston, which was a center of Chinese espionage. The Trump assistants has closed several Russian consulates in the U.S. and expelled over sixty Russian "diplomats" (espionage agents), issued sanctions against several Russian officials, and persuaded several European nations to increment their defenses against potential Russian invasion.

24. Withdrawing from the Iran nuclear bargain: President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal, called the Joint Comprehensive Programme for Activity, which would have allowed Iran to build a nuclear bomb within the next few years.

25. A wise COVID-19 response:President Trump imposed strict restrictions on travel from People's republic of china on Jan 31, 2020, long before other leaders recognized the danger of this coronavirus. Then, when the COVID-19 virus began to spread rapidly inside the United states of america, the dominant media narrative was a fright that we would run out of hospital beds to intendance for the sick. President Trump immediately mobilized the armed services to construct huge new hospital facilities in New York City and elsewhere, and soon in that location were enough beds. The next fear was that nosotros would run out of ventilators. President Trump persuaded leaders of American industry to fast-track the industry of ventilators, and soon there were plenty ventilators. And then the question was how soon to reopen buildings and meeting places, and President Trump wisely left the decision to local governors and other local officials who all-time know the different situations in their individual locations.

Finally, the FDA has fast-tracked the trial and approval procedure for a vaccine, and the federal government has made commitments to purchase millions of vaccines from various companies every bit before long as they are canonical for widespread use. Several promising vaccines are at present in the avant-garde stages of testing on man subjects. The previous record for rapid FDA approval of a new vaccine was four years from initial research to final approving, just nether President Trump's leadership experts are now optimistically predicting that an FDA-canonical coronavirus vaccine will exist available as early on equally October 2020, which would be nine months from the time the outbreak of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China became known.

In add-on, President Trump, working with Congress, quickly passed three coronavirus relief packages, with the result that millions of Americans continued to receive pay in spite of their workplaces being temporarily closed.

Unfortunately, many Democrats have decided to make the coronavirus tragedy a political effect, repeatedly criticizing President Trump's response. With the benefit of hindsight, Monday morn quarterbacks tin can always claim they would have made ameliorate decisions in Dominicus afternoon's game, but they didn't have to make instant decisions in the midst of the contest.

We need to recognize that President Trump, in dealing with the coronavirus crisis, has repeatedly had to make hard decisions in a situation where he had incomplete data and conflicting advice from different scientific, medical, economical, and educational experts. Others may disagree, but it seems to me that in a very difficult state of affairs he has done a commendable chore of balancing the demand to protect Americans' health, the need to avert destroying our economy, the demand to protect businesses from defalcation, and the demand to become children back to school so that they volition not exist deprived of many crucial months in their teaching.

26. Reforming the Department of Veterans Affairs: On June 23, 2017, President Trump signed the Veterans Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act, which gave the Secretary of Veterans Affairs streamlined authority to burn unproductive employees and to appoint new medical directors at VA hospitals. Merely even before that law, the Trump assistants had begun to clean firm, and over 500 employees were fired from the Veterans Administration in the first 6 months of Trump's presidency.

27. Criminal justice reform: President Trump signed the Beginning Pace Human action on Dec 21, 2018. This police gives judges more flexibility in reducing mandatory sentencing guidelines in individual cases, eliminates the "three strikes" requirement of life imprisonment for some offenses, improves opportunities for bookish and vocational education within prisons, provides more than support for the successful reentry of released prisoners into society, and requires prisoners to exist placed in prisons near their place of chief residence where possible.

28. Reducing prescription drug prices:On July 24, 2020, President Trump signed 4 executive orders aimed at reducing prescription drug prices. These included requiring federal health centers to brand insulin and epinephrine available at massive discounts to low-income persons; prohibiting underground deals between drug manufacturers and pharmacy "benefit manager" middlemen; ensuring patients directly benefit from bachelor discounts at the chemist's counter; assuasive more importation of prescription drugs from Canada and other countries where prices are lower; and reducing prices for Medicare Function B drugs if they are available for lower prices in other economically advanced countries.

I personally incertitude the wisdom of using price controls instead of fostering greater competition to reduce drug prices, only I'm still listing this as a good activeness because information technology may be a useful outset pace in providing a point that Republicans are serious near solving the real problem of expensive drugs that many people cannot afford.

29. Protecting federal property from rioters:The motion that began as peaceful and well-justified protests confronting the murder of George Floyd was soon co-opted by the presence of lawless rioters whose goal was destruction of belongings by annexation and arson that began in Minneapolis and soon spread to Seattle, Portland, Chicago, New York, and other cities. In contrast to the weak Democratic mayors and governors who adopted a policy of appeasement that only encouraged more violence and even resulted in the called-for of a police force station in Minneapolis, President Trump announced in Washington, D.C. that any destruction of federal statues and monuments would issue in fines up to $x,000, and suddenly the attacks on these statues came to an abrupt halt. When rioters threatened to destroy the U.Southward. courthouse in Portland, and the governor and the mayor were not protecting this federal holding, President Trump sent in federal officers to protect information technology, which they did. The courthouse was not destroyed and the slightly over 100 U.S. marshals and DHS officers inside the edifice were protected until eventually the mayor of Portland sent local and land law to protect the building.

According to the 1807 Coup Act, the president has the legal say-so to have whatever measures (including deploying federal troops or other law enforcement officials) necessary to suppress any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination or conspiracy, fifty-fifty without an invitation or permission from the governor of the land in which that federal belongings is located. An case of this happened in 1957 when President Dwight Eisenhower sent federal troops into Arkansas over the objections of Governor Orval Faubus to enforce federal schoolhouse desegregation orders and protect African-American schoolchildren from a mob that had gathered to end them outside Central High School in Little Rock.

In a further response to the violence threatening many of our cities, President Trump'southward Department of Justice has at present launched Operation Legend, in which over 1,000 additional federal agents have been dispatched to piece of work aslope local law enforcement officers in nine cities to auscultate the near tearing instigators of these riots. They have now located and arrested 1485 suspects for tearing crimes, including 90 homicides.

xxx. Welcoming evangelical Christians into positions of influence: This may non be important to others, but, speaking as an evangelical Christian, I see it as a positive gene that, rather than marginalizing evangelical Christians (as was the practice of the Obama administration), President Trump has appointed a remarkably large number of evangelicals to loftier government offices. These include Vice President Mike Pence, Ben Carson (Secretary of Housing and Urban Development), Betsy DeVos (Secretary of Education), Rick Perry (erstwhile Secretary of Energy), Scott Pruitt (one-time Administrator of the Environmental Protection Bureau), Dan Coats (former Managing director of National Intelligence), Mike Pompeo (Secretarial assistant of State), Russ Vought (Director of Office of Management and Budget), and Kayleigh McEnany (White House Press Secretary), and others.

In addition, he has oft welcomed evangelical pastors and other leaders to the White House, for both public and private conversations.

The context:These 30 good deportment have all been achieved in spite of a remarkably hostile national media. The Media Enquiry Center analyzed all the evaluative statements made by reporters, anchors, and nonpartisan sources (such as experts or voters but non people identified equally Democrats or Republicans) during June and July of 2020 on "Earth News Tonight " (ABC), "Evening News" (CBS), and "NBC Nightly News" (NBC). They counted 34 positive evaluative statements fabricated about President Trump and 634 negative statements during those 2 months. Past dissimilarity, there were viii positive statements and four negative evaluative statements nigh Biden during the aforementioned fourth dimension period. (Biden had become the presumptive Democratic nominee on April 8 when Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign.)

These numbers indicate that, for every time that viewers heard a negative evaluation of Biden, they heard 158 negative evaluations of Trump. For every positive statement they heard about Trump, they heard 18 negative statements. This is not balanced reporting, nor is it responsible journalism. Someone may object that the Media Research Center is a politically conservative content analysis organization, just that does not invalidate their tabulations, which I doubtable would be consistent with the perceptions of whatever viewers who picket these newscasts for a few days. A like kind of bias could also be seen on CNN or MSNBC.

Enquiry director Rich Noyes at the Media Inquiry Centre was quoted as saying, "I accept been studying the news media and elections for more 35 years. Trust me – in that location has never been anything like it." He called this "the most biased presidential entrada coverage in modern media history."

I betoken out this media bias in order to observe that President Trump's unwavering commitment to mutual-sense conservative political policies is remarkable. Few human beings would take the courage and strength of character to persist in the face of such overwhelmingly hostile mainstream news coverage. And he has non done this while avoiding the press merely has held 17 solo press conferences and 44 joint press conferences in 3.v years (equally of July twenty^th) plus numerous less formal interchanges with the press when he leaves or returns to the White House by helicopter.

In addition, he has washed all this while enduring 3.5 years of "resistance" by a massive special counsel investigation (that came to aught), impeachment past the House (that came to naught), and numerous nationwide injunctions confronting his executive orders issued by individual U.S. District Court judges. In this context, Trump's resolute pursuit of the policies on which he campaigned seems to me to exist commendable.

Divine blessing or divine judgment? Speaking as an evangelical Christian, I believe that God exercises providential control over the history of nations. The Erstwhile Testament says, "The Virtually High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will and sets over information technology the lowliest of men" (Daniel 4:17). Similarly, the New Testament says, "Let every person exist subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist take been instituted by God" (Romans 13:1).

Simply that doesn't hateful that all rulers are good. Sometimes God gives a nation oppressive rulers every bit a means of divine judgment, equally when he led Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, to bear off the Jewish people into exile (2 Kings 24:10 - 25:21). At other times he gives leaders who will bring approving to a nation, as when God led Cyrus, king of Persia, to decree that the Jewish people could return to their homeland (Ezra 1:1-iv).

So here is a question for my fellow Christians: If y'all believe (as I exercise) that God is sovereign over the affairs of nations, do you recall that Donald Trump's presidency has been show of divine approving or divine judgment? I admit that perceiving divine purposes in human events is a task that cannot be proved with certainty one way or another, only when I look over this listing of 30 deportment, it appears to me to be far more than characteristic of divine approval than of divine judgment. If others disagree, I respect your correct to take a dissimilar stance, but that is my view.

Conclusion: If President Trump is reelected (as I hope he will be), we can expect four more years of the same type of White Firm activity: more originalist judges, ongoing lower taxes and deregulation, continuing funding for a stronger military, further restrictions on ballgame, more schoolhouse choice, connected support for Israel, hundreds of additional miles of edge wall, a humane and just solution to immigration, standing protection of religious freedom and freedom of conscience, arable safe free energy production, continued protection confronting Islamic terrorism, a stronger NATO brotherhood, more free spoken communication protections on college campuses, connected protection of separate boys and girls sports teams and locker rooms, more than trade agreements that are fair to the United States, accelerated renewal of our aging infrastructure, unflinching resistance to Russian and Chinese aggressiveness, continued isolation of Iran and multilateral containment of their hostile expansionist ambitions, normalization of relations between Israel and other Arab nations, and further solutions to the problem of loftier drug prices.

No doubt more beneficial deportment could be added to this list, but these should be plenty to justify some other iv good years with Donald Trump as president.

Wayne Grudem is Distinguished Enquiry Professor of Theology and Biblical Studies at Phoenix Seminary in Arizona. The views expressed in this article represent the views of the author and should not exist understood to represent the position of Phoenix Seminary.

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