usmbguest5318
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I give him an "F" and I'll tell you why.
Trump is a grown man playing in "the big leagues." That, just as is the case at the pinnacle of academia, means there are only two grades: A or F. It really isn't grades that one earns at that level. Instead one, to the highest quality level abstractly and relatively possible, either did, at a minimum, all of what one promised to do (because as a PhD candidate, one gets to decide what one is going to do; nobody tells one what one must do) and did, at a minimum, all of what one was asked to do, which is tantamount to earning an A, or one did not do one, the other or both of those things, which corresponds to getting an F. Put another way, if one did those two things, one gets the degree; if one did not, one does not.
That's how it works with a doctoral degree, and whether one likes it or not, the U.S. Presidency is definitely not anything below the "doctoral" level as goes politics, governance, statecraft/diplomacy, and policy making for every kind of issue that may foreseeably arise or come totally out of left field. Is that a very high bar? Yes, it is, but that's the U.S. Presidency. So while the OP-er has listed a swarm of grades, the fact is that at the Presidential level, there are only two that matter.
Now, as goes fulfilling all one's promises, I point to Trump's Contract with the American People, which he signed, thus making it biding on him.
Trump is a grown man playing in "the big leagues." That, just as is the case at the pinnacle of academia, means there are only two grades: A or F. It really isn't grades that one earns at that level. Instead one, to the highest quality level abstractly and relatively possible, either did, at a minimum, all of what one promised to do (because as a PhD candidate, one gets to decide what one is going to do; nobody tells one what one must do) and did, at a minimum, all of what one was asked to do, which is tantamount to earning an A, or one did not do one, the other or both of those things, which corresponds to getting an F. Put another way, if one did those two things, one gets the degree; if one did not, one does not.
That's how it works with a doctoral degree, and whether one likes it or not, the U.S. Presidency is definitely not anything below the "doctoral" level as goes politics, governance, statecraft/diplomacy, and policy making for every kind of issue that may foreseeably arise or come totally out of left field. Is that a very high bar? Yes, it is, but that's the U.S. Presidency. So while the OP-er has listed a swarm of grades, the fact is that at the Presidential level, there are only two that matter.
Now, as goes fulfilling all one's promises, I point to Trump's Contract with the American People, which he signed, thus making it biding on him.
- Did he deliver on all the elements in the contract within his first 100 days? No.
- Did anyone hold him at gunpoint when he wrote that document? No.
- Could he have promised something or some things other than what he did? Yes.
- Could he have promised to do fewer things in his first 100 days? Yes.
- Could he have made promises that were within his actual ability to achieve? Yes.
- Should he have known what was and was not within his ability to achieve within 100 days? Yes.
- Did he have a GOP Congress that would have backed him had he sound proposals to put forth in accordance with his 100 days promises? Yes.
- Did he have legislation penned and/or in all other "100 days promise" respects have his "ducks in a row" so he could hit the ground running and achieve what he said he would? No.
