Tue Oct 27 13:30:10 EDT 2020

About Trump

Some links related to President Donald Trump.

  • Questions of the Day for Trump Supporters

    1. Did Trump repeal and replace Obamacare with something much better and cheaper?
    2. Did Mexico pay for the wall?
    3. Did Trump balance the budget?
    4. Did Trump bring home the troops in Syria, Afghanistan, or Iraq?
    5. Did Trump eliminate the trade deficit?
    6. Did USMCA improve upon NAFTA?
    7. Did Trump improve upon TTP?
    8. Did Trump label China a currency manipulator?
    9. Did Trump rebuild the country's infrastructure?
    10. Was Trump phenomenal for women?
    11. Has Trump done more for the African American community than any other president since Abraham Lincoln?
    12. Did Trump drain the swamp?
    13. Did Trump's tariffs bring back manufacturing jobs?
    14. On 4/14/2011 Trump said "I look very much forward to showing my financials, because they are huge." Did he?
  • Is Trump a fascist? 8 experts weigh in.

    Call him a kleptocrat, an oligarch, a xenophobe, a racist, even an authoritarian. But he doesn't quite fit the definition of a fascist.

  • The Rust Belt boom that wasn't: Heartland job growth lagged under Trump

    Through the first three years of the Trump administration the county lost jobs, and brought in slightly less in wages in the first three months of 2020 than in the first three months of 2017 as Trump was taking over.
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    Across the industrial belt from Wisconsin to Pennsylvania, private job growth from the first three months of 2017 through the first three months of 2020 lagged the rest of the country - with employment in Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio growing 2% or less over that time compared to a 4.5% national average, according to QCEW data analyzed by Reuters.

  • The Wisconsin Foxconn Job

    Behind Foxconn's empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin.

    The renovations never arrived. Neither did the factory, the tech campus, nor the thousands of jobs. Interviews with 19 employees and dozens of others involved with the project, as well as thousands of pages of public documents, reveal a project that has defaulted on almost every promise. The building Foxconn calls an LCD factory - about 1/20th the size of the original plan - is little more than an empty shell. In September, Foxconn received a permit to change its intended use from manufacturing to storage.


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