Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen penned two columns, with one focusing on what the pro-Trump author considers the 10 best things the “president” did in 2019, then he delved into the 10 worst in another piece. His more optimistic piece is laughable at best as it claims that Trump has “continued to deliver for the forgotten Americans,” even though the “president” gifted the wealthy with a nice tax cut, is zeroing in on food stamps (the conservative columnist thinks that’s a good thing), and has failed to deliver an alternative to Obamacare after three years of empty promises. Food stamp recipients and those that are without health care are the forgotten people.
We’re at a point where most of us are left scratching our heads when conservatives fail to call out Trump after so many blunders, and broken promises while his supporters somehow cheer him on. Thiessen did go there, though, and started his “worst” list with Trump’s anti-immigrant claim that “Our country is FULL” and as he said, “we’re not full by a long shot.”
“If Trump wants to keep this strong economy going, he needs more workers — and that means he needs more immigrants,” he wrote.
Thiessen also called out Trump for using “anti-Semitic tropes to attack his enemies,” and oh boy, he’s not wrong about that. After Trump’s attacks on The Squad, he wrote that the “president” then “declared that ‘any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat’ show ‘great disloyalty’ — using the very same anti-Semitic trope that got Omar and Tlaib in trouble in the first place.”
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He then noted that Trump gave Turkey a green light to invade Syria which resulted in an attack on our Kurdish allies. From there, he called out Trump for abuse of power after he lost the shutdown fight, and used “the National Emergencies Act to appropriate funds for a policy priority after Congress specifically refused to do so legislatively.”
Thiessen wrote that Trump’s phone call with President Volodymyr Zelensky was not “perfect” as the “president” claimed and that he ended up giving Democrats the means to impeach him.
After concluding his list, including Trump’s attacks on dead people such as Sen. John McCain and Rep. John Dingell who the “president” suggested was “looking up” from hell, Thiessen said that “this year, the number and seriousness of the president’s substantive mistakes grew. On balance, the good still outweighs the bad in the Trump presidency. But the bad is getting worse.”
We’re gonna have to disagree on that second-to-last sentence.
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