He didn't make us a fortune in the stock market. It's approaching Bear market territory.
He didn't replace Obamacare with something better and cheaper.
He didn't increase employment in manufacturing.
Didn't bring back all those coal jobs.
Didn't get rid of Korean nukes.
Didn't rebuild infrastructure.

And the deficit approaches a trillion dollars a year.

What's Trump got left?
Cozying up to white nationalists and making you afraid of immigrants.



Why Trump Needs a Border Wall Shutdown Fight

It’s a recognition that he is going to sink or swim politically in 2020 by standing with his base.

President Trump’s decision to hold firm on his demand for funding toward a border wall and allow the government to partly shut down is a recognition that he is going to sink or swim politically in 2020 by standing with his base.

It also suggests that, however tumultuous the previous two years were, this week is a taste of what’s to come and a sign that partisan warfare is going to get more fierce.

This week, the White House signaled that Mr. Trump was going to drop his demand for a border wall to keep the government open. But some of his most loyal conservative supporters unleashed a torrent of uncharacteristically harsh criticism. “Fox and Friends” hosts complained; Rush Limbaugh fumed; and Ann Coulter declared that without the wall she wouldn’t vote to re-elect Mr. Trump because he will have presided over a “joke presidency” and “scammed the American people.”

Though this wouldn’t have been the first time the president backed off demands for a border wall and agreed to government spending deals, this time there was an increased urgency among conservatives; Democrats are set to take control of the House of Representatives on Jan. 3. As Representative Mark Meadows, Republican of North Carolina and a leader of the conservative Freedom Caucus, framed it, “If we’re not going to fight now, when are we going to fight?”

According to a Quinnipiac poll, American voters opposed setting off a shutdown over border wall funding, 62 percent to 34 percent. But Republicans supported the move 59 percent to 33 percent. Poll results were not broken down further, but among Mr. Trump’s core supporters, enthusiasm for a border wall showdown was most likely even stronger.

President Trump, in other words, faced a classic political quandary of having to choose between his party’s base and the general electorate. His decision shows that he’s concluded his best path to re-election runs through appealing to his base. And he’s probably right.

Compared with that of other presidents, Mr. Trump’s approval rating is relatively inelastic, so there isn’t really an option of his winning over moderates by co-opting the message of his opponents, as Bill Clinton successfully did after Democratic losses in the 1994 midterms. Mr. Trump’s own unorthodox political rise has taught him that the road to victory lies in energizing a devoted group of supporters.