WHICH ONES ARE TRUMP'S WORST DECISIONS?

…This is what the US did NOT have to deal with after WWII

Determining Trump’s worst decisions is very difficult.

When I look back on the past months of Trump’s presidency, I find it very difficult to determine what so far were Trump’s worst decisions?

Just look at some of what has caused tens of thousands of people, especially in Great Britain to march in protest Trump, and to launch a Baby Trump balloon.

Was it his decision to take children away from immigrants that were fleeing nations of violence?  Was it his Muslim ban?  Was it his comments about a real war hero, John McCain, now fighting a brain tumor, or his comments in his campaign against an immigrant father of a dead American war hero?

Was it getting the US out of the TPP trade agreement, or out of the Paris Climate Accord or putting the highly expensive Scott Pruitt as the head of the EPA? 

Was it all the lies he regularly tells and how he continually embarrasses most Americans?

Was it how he said he was going to “Drain the Swamp in DC!”, and has instead increase the number of DC swamp creatures?

Was it how he seems to love authoritarian dictators, and yet he treats our allies with distain?

One opinion writer for the Washington Post has stated that the three worst Trump decisions were: ”to brazenly insult our NATO allies, his romancing of Russia without commensurate leverage, and his rush to legitimize North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un without any substantive concessions. The president’s topsy-turvy approach to foreign policy seems to be: Love thy enemies as thyself, and screw your pals. The result is that our enemies think us foolish and our allies find us both inscrutable and highly untrustworthy.”

Trump has called himself very smart, having a very high “IQ” and even “a genius” and that he says he has a strategy that is too sophisticated for the ordinary mind to grasp. But the reality is that it is the work of a man who thinks the tools of his former trade as a real estate developer can be as easily applied to complex, global, diplomatic challenges.

But to compare a wheeler-dealer’s real estate moves to a de-nuclearization agreement is totally ridiculous.

For the real estate deals, if a Trump Hotel falls through, the wheeler-dealer Trump moves on to the next opportunity, possibly filing for bankruptcy if necessary to fund his next project.

In a nuclear deal, if it falls through, the world tips on its axis.  Due to the way Trump attacked NATO and its members, all it did was show Trump’s ignorance about how NATO works and it strengthened Russia and its desire for more expansion.

It must be understood that neither China nor Russia have any real friendly nations standing by their side.  They are powerful nations, but they are both on their own.

On the other hand, NATO has a foundation of 29 separate nations that have all agreed that if any members are attacked, they will come to that nation’s defense.  That’s exactly what happened after the United States was attacked on 9//11.  Many nations sent young soldiers to fight and die along-side American military in Afghanistan and Iraq.  Trump has had the gall to slap the hands of those nations that aren’t today at 2% of their GDP going to  NATO, but the original agreement was that they would get there by 2024.

Trump just doesn’t seem to understand that at the end of WWII, the United States was the only nation beside Australia and New Zealand that had not been physically attacked.  Our military came home to a peaceful and totally un-touched nation.  While all the nations in Europe, Japan, China, Singapore, the Philippines and South East Asia were virtually destroyed.  The US still had its massive manufacturing capabilities intact.  It was able to provide food and materials for rebuilding those nations and it basically developed the most successful and well off middle class in any nation…ever.

At the time, it was estimated that it would take many of those nation over 50 years to recover from their destroyed economies and from the deaths of the millions of soldiers and innocent civilians.  As of today, it is only 23 years past that estimate of 50 years for total recovery.  The US took full advantage of all those years of not having to do what those other destroyed nations had to deal with.

Trump does not understand that NATO’s stability has seriously benefited the United States.  Trump consciously seems to seek to destabilize the free world, one relationship at a time? If so, to what end is he trying to achieve?

The point of NATO’s formation has totally eluded Trump.  NATO is there to maintain and defend allied nations by treating an attack against one country as an attack on all.  In an alliance of this sort, especially given Europe’s understanding of America’s overwhelming military contributions of the past, it isn’t necessary for big dog Trump to piss on NATO’s hydrant.

The trouble with Trump is that he’s a wise guy from Queens and apparently hasn’t yet managed to overcome his own childhood insecurities. Men like Trump who brag incessantly of their accomplishments are usually compensating for something else

Since NATO was formed, NATO has been the world’s best defense against instability.  While today, Trump, the ever pompous insecure child, is cheering on our adversaries.

The common knowledge is that we will survive having Donald Trump as our president.  I guess I'm not so sure we will get back to "business as usual" in my life time.

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