Conrad Black: The inconvenient truth about Trump — he's doing what he said he would

US President Donald Trump speaks after announcing an agreement with Guatemala regarding people seeking asylum in the Oval Office of the White House on July 26, 2019, in Washington, DC. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images

US President Donald Trump is doing what he said he would do and no doubt that is established as an awkward truth.

In this way, it is essential to say that to the extent that his record in the position conforms to pre-election promises, the history of the US president has been the best of any president of the United States, since Calvin Coolidge (1923–1929), which promised, and did nothing, in the days of isolation of the American, the prohibition and the total absence of requirements for the guarantee in loans to buy shares, or at least, is what is said.

Certainly Trump promised prosperity, tax cuts, renegotiation of unfavorable trade agreements, the annihilation of ISIL, the establishment of a southern border that would control the entry into the country, the formation of the military, the revival of the concept of nuclear non-proliferation with respect to Iran and North Korea, withdrawal of the Paris agreement on the useless and self-punitive climate, a resuscitation of education through non-unionized schools and incentives for the reintroduction of freedom of expression in the academic world and the end of the condition of NATO as a gang of defenseless shippers (such as Canada), generously accepting a military guarantee of their territory from the United States without paying it.

Partial fulfillment of all promises

There is no doubt that the fact that he has fully or partially fulfilled all this is to, borrow a phrase from one of the great charlatans elected to the United States national office, Al Gore, “an awkward truth” that the media Conventionals of the Western world have great difficulty recognizing.

In this way, it has been said that the true Canadian media would have to be examined to discover the facts that the United States now has 1.6 million more jobs to occupy than unemployed people, that GDP per capita growth has tripled , the economic growth rate is more than three times that of the European Union, more than 50 percent above the Obama record, and that the income and purchasing power of the working and middle class are growing for the first time this millennium .

Thus, it is essential to say that the fact that he earned billions of dollars building high-quality buildings, founded a television program that attracted some 25 million viewers every week for a decade and a half, and that made a surprising return of insolvency, paying all its creditors, is the only person elected president of the USA who never held any public office or military command, but instead devised a pioneering brand strategy, self-promotion, social networks and support in talk shows to become president.

Source: Conrad Black | National Post