Can't believe I'm commenting on a foot.ie post about American politics but..........Mark - Is not starting wars your bar for being the "Greatest President in US History" as you called him? That's like congratulating a child for not pulling his sister's hair. The missile attack was caused by Trump for gods sake.
Your list of accomplishments above is also strange. What does "draining the swamp" mean to you? I know what he promised...but where is the evidence that he has achieved anything? He basically reduced the numbers of employees at government agencies who regulate business and increased those (by massive amounts) at Homeland Security and the VA (the latter of which is maybe the only thing I agree with). He has filled agencies with lobbyists, which runs exactly counter to the idea of "draining the swamp". He hasn't drained a thing - he just filled it with more alligators and leeches.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamand.../#79ac48f57060
https://www.propublica.org/article/w...on-dc-insiders
I live in the States. My 401k is doing ok. As it was under Obama at various points and probably will be again after Trump. That's fine but many don't have stock or a 401k and the vast majority don't have enough to make swings in the stock market a useful measure of progress. It's great for Trump and his donor-class of course.
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/10/tr...r-2019-update/
https://www.factcheck.org/2012/10/obamas-numbers/
Pick any economic metric you want and claim it shows that Trump is doing a good job but the truth is way more complicated and it's notoriously hard to credit things solely to a President. He's only been in power for 3 years. Some good stuff happened (enough to satisfy his base) but the vast majority of his Presidency has been a **** show with very little meaningful progress. Some manufacturing jobs came back but long term they are at risk of automation so that's a stop gap measure.
Trump:
> promotes sexual assault and misogyny - he's a creep and always has been. Too much evidence to even list.
> defends neo-nazis as "good people" (even after they've murder innocent civilians)
> uses language and content that incites violence against his opponents -
https://www.macleans.ca/politics/was...ites-violence/
> loves a bit of Nepotism
> hasn't delivered on any but the most pointless or misguided of his campaign promises. The vast majority of what he has accomplished is at best controversial and against the will of at least half the country -
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...browse/?page=5. VA improvements are the one plus.
> mocks the disabled
> makes horrendous, incompetent, corrupt and utterly partisan appointments to the Supreme Court and federal agencies, often appointing people with massive conflicts of interest who are completely opposed to regulating the areas they are supposed to protect/promote - see Scott Pruitt and Betsy DeVos among the roll-call of desperately unfit leeches involved.
> has no grasp of international law, see "we will bomb their (Iran's) cultural sites" or "we will take their (Syria's) oil"
> has no grasp of important concepts but loves to talk about them, see his analysis of wind power
> is generally a spiteful, childish, narcissistic individual who is no role model
> is using the Presidency for his OWN PROFIT -
https://www.opensecrets.org/trump/trump-properties
> is incoherent at best and consistently forgets what he has said, invents poll numbers (or uses the ones he gets from his own outbound emails) or outright lies to the public on a ridiculously regular basis -
https://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/
If you're happy enough with all of that then more power to you.
P.S. Nobody in the US is claiming Suleimani was a hero and most didn't even know who he was until recently either. Again, I live here and he was news to me. He was a sometimes ally, sometimes enemy who was certainly anti-American and probably encouraging attacks on American forces via militias around the Middle East. Should he have been killed? Maybe. But to carry out the arguably extra judicial assassination of Iran's second most powerful official is a ridiculously dangerous move and likely resulted in the deaths of 67 innocent Canadians while giving Iran a new martyr to rally around. Will we end up in WW3? - not a chance. Was it a bad move? - well time will tell but you'd expect retaliation. Was it timed to distract from impeachment and help Trump's bid for re-election - Well....I'm no cynic but....Yeah.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation...uleimani-trump