Happy anniversary, President Trump
In spite of unprecedented personal attacks from a hate-filled media, the outgoing Obama regime and Hillary Clinton’s minions in high government positions that reached a level sheer madness last year, President Trump has achieved an unprecedented of level of success for a first-year president.
The Dow on Wednesday broke 26,000 points for the first time in its history, and more than 2 million jobs were created in 2017 under Trump. Due to Trump’s tax policies, Apple announced that it will repatriate overseas cash holdings and pour $350 billion into the U.S. economy over five years.
ISIS has collapsed in its Syria stronghold and also in Iraq and has lost 95 percent of the ground it gained under Barack Obama. Keeping his campaign promise, Trump has ordered our embassy moved to its rightful place in Jerusalem and our relationship with Israel is the strongest in decades. In November, trade and investment deals worth more than $250 billion were announced that are expected to create jobs for American workers.
Trump has become a true defender of the unborn. On Friday he became the first president to speak in person at the pro-life march in Washington, D.C., saying “We know that life is the great miracle of all. … Because of you, tens of thousands of Americans have been born and reached their full God-given potential.”
To rub salt in his detractors’ wounds, he is in perfect health and achieved a perfect score on a 30-item cognitive test.
Happy anniversary, President Trump.
Richard Pluth Casselberry
Trump’s anti-environment
After one year in office, President Trump leads all presidents in U.S. history with his anti-environmental actions. The cable news networks like to report on what Donald Trump says, but few report adequately on what he does. The list of such actions is long.
Perhaps the most egregious is creation of a task force, ostensibly to make government more efficient through regulatory reform, but which is working to “eliminate safeguards and protections for public health and the environment.” So says the League of Conservation Voters in a year-end review. Last February Trump offered a budget outline proposing dramatic slashes in funding for environmental programs and research, especially including large staff reductions at the Environmental Protection Agency and significant cuts in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other agency climate-science research funding.
In March, Trump ordered the EPA to review fuel-efficiency standards that have been effective at reducing emissions from transportation accounting for one-third of U.S. carbon-dioxide loading in the atmosphere, a principal cause of global warming. Weakened standards are expected to increase noxious transportation emissions (and carbon dioxide). On and on, the LCV list goes. Unless these actions are stopped, the president will decimate the excellent progress made on many important environmental fronts. Help counter this trend with letters to your congressmen and senators.
Ross McCluney Cape Canaveral