Donald Trump Presidency
Approximately two years have elapsed since President Donald Trump was inaugurated as the President of the United States. Citizens in the United States have mixed feelings about how President Donald Trump has performed towards achieving his promises. President Trump has so far made several misleading statements during his presidency. During his campaigns, President trump made several promises to the citizens including environmental protection and affordable health to all citizens. Some promises have been fulfilled while others are still pending. Few days after President Donald Trump inauguration, President Trump nominated cabinet members who would help him to fulfill his promises as required by the United States Constitution. Some cabinet members nominated by President Trump withdrew from consideration because of the opposition they faced from the Senate. President Trump has made tremendous accomplishments during the first two years of his administration.
President Trump during his campaigns promised to make “America Great Again,” and the President has made many accomplishments towards fulfilling this promise. President Donald Trump has expanded options for quality and affordable healthcare to all the American citizens, which is a major accomplishment so far in his presidency. President Trump has signed legislation that allows employers to come together and provide health coverage to their employees (Tesler, 690). The legislation is in line with Trump’s promise of promoting affordable and quality health care services to all the citizens in the United States. In fulfilling the health care promise, President Donald Trump has signed another legislation that has allowed Americans to have health care freedom (Tesler, 695). The legislation ended Obamacare’s individual’s mandate penalty, which is a major accomplishment made by President Trump so far. During his campaigns, President Trump promised to make America great by promoting the economic boom in the country.
The promise of promoting economic growth in America has been fulfilled by President Trump’s administration. President Donald Trump with the help of his cabinet has come up with policies that are geared towards providing opportunities to all the American workers. Creating favorable industrialization policies has seen President Trump’s administration create more jobs for American citizens. Since his election, President Trump’s administration has created more than 5 million job opportunities to the American citizens (Blendon, 230). The unemployment rate has fallen below 4 percent, which has led to the growth of the American economy as per Trump’s promise. President Trump has delivered on his promise of promoting the American manufacturing sector. More small businesses have thrived because of the favorable pro-growth policies that have made business ventures and consumers to have confidence. President Trump signed Tax Cuts law that benefited all the American employees and families (Nunns, 22). President Trump’s Administration ensures that all American workers get the necessary education to be competitive in the current economy, which has been critical to the rapid growth of the American economy. President Trump has fired some of his cabinet members who have failed in their service delivery to the citizens.
Donald Trump’s cabinet members have performed, though the cabinet has also raised a lot of questions to the United States citizens. Before President Trump was elected, he did not have experience in government and military. Therefore, he selected cabinet members who had more experience in government matters (Weber, 135). The cabinet members have performed in guiding President Trump to lead his government according to the constitution. President Trump’s cabinet is characterized by conservatives. Most of the cabinet members embrace conservative principles as opposed to the Republican policies. Most of President Trump’s cabinet members are business oriented, and as a result, Trump’s cabinet is the wealthiest in terms of personal wealth. Business-oriented cabinet members have helped President Trump’s administration to lead America to rapid economic growth. President Trump’s cabinet has fewer lawyers when compared to the previous American cabinets. President’s Trump cabinet has performed, however, some cabinet members have violated their cabinet positions, which has negatively affected Trump’s process of making America great. Michael Flynn who was National Security advisor lied to the Vice –President that he was in communication with the Russian Ambassador to the United States during the election period (Freivogel,19). Michael Flynn seemed to support the claims that the Russian government interfered with United State election, which painted a bad image of Trump’s administration. As a result, Michael Flynn was fired from the cabinet in February 2017. President Trump’s cabinet has been critical in ensuring that President Trump passes fair legislation that is in line with the constitutional laws.
President Trump’s legislative achievements reveal how Trump’s priorities and management styles are different from the past United States presidents. Tax Cuts and Job Act is the biggest piece of legislation passed by President Trump during his first two years of leadership. The legislation has led to great success because the American economy has improved to reach new levels. The Tax Cuts legislation has reduced the corporate tax by 15 percent, which has benefited the wealthy American employees (Tucker, 602). The Job Act law signed by Trump in his first days of the presidency has resulted in the creation of many job opportunities to the American citizens. Presidents Trump administration is much different from the previous Obama’s administration. President Trump has changed the way public relations operates by regulating the freedom of the media (Park, 202). President Trump regulates how the media covers the White House by allowing the media to cover only what he posts on his Twitter account. Previous United States administrations such as the Obama administration allowed the press to cover all the White House news, which is different from how President Trump runs the public relations industry. President Donald Trump has passed fruitful policies in his first two years of the presidency just like President Obama’s administration. President Trump is focused on implementing policies in the future that will promote the development of the agricultural sector and other policies that will lead to environmental protection for the benefit of the future generation.
In conclusion, President Trump has fulfilled a good number of the promises he made to the American citizens. President Trump had promised citizens of making America great by creating a favorable environment for economic growth. Trump’s administration delivered to this promise by passing the Tax Cuts and Job Act legislation. President Trump will promote agricultural growth in the future because he is planning to restructure the agricultural sector by passing policies that control how farmers are funded. President Trump is also aiming to come up with policies that will promote environmental protection. President Trump will deliver in promoting a clean environment because the President has shown his interest in the use of clean energy in America. With support from his cabinet, President Trump will improve the agricultural sector. President Trump’s planned environmental protection policies will succeed because he suffers minimal opposition when passing policies as witnessed in the past two years. President’s Trump accomplishments in his first years in leadership prove that he will achieve his campaign promises, and make America great.
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